Senior Vice President, Technology Regulatory Lead, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa Job Listing at Mastercard in Sandton, GP (Job ID R-250788-South Africa, 2196)

Description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior Vice President, Technology Regulatory Lead, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa SVP, Regional Technology Regulatory Lead, drives Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) in-region technology regulatory execution on behalf of TECH, working with key stakeholders across the business, to maintain and enforce adherence to all relevant regulations and standards. This role serves as a trusted advisor to internal and external stakeholders across our markets. This individual reports to Grace Hayes, EVP Technology Regulatory Execution and dotted lines into the EEMEA Regional President.

Overview
• Serve as regional SME and lead on technology regulatory matters, collaborating closely with cross-functional leadership
• Promote resilience and enhances operational efficiency and security in the region, through support of strategic Technology solutioning needs at a regional level
• Monitor internal and external forces which can affect the way in which we do business and engage with Customers & Regulators on our TECH thought leadership and modernization strategy
• Deepen relationships with regulators, explaining our tech standards and practices and illustrating our ability to be a trusted and reliable partner to regulators. Strengthen regulatory posture in designated markets
• Ensure catalogue is updated in a timely manner adhering to regional regulatory requirements (ongoing maintenance), and enabling faster incident response
• Ensure end-to-end regulatory technology traceability where required
• Structure, socialize, and ensure compliance with regulatory tech frameworks, standards and practices among regional partners and stakeholders
• Provide operations oversight on behalf of regulators, independent from Mastercard Operations; tie in risk and audit best practices
• Lead ICT compliance and oversight, staying current on regulations and standards
• Safeguard the regions by applying TECH due diligence on major changes impacting the regions (regulatory requirement) / Support solutioning prioritization as needed. Strengthen regulatory technology controls in region.
• Provide critical partnership and standardized reporting to Senior Leadership to provide transparency on ongoing regulatory matters and on regional TECH regulatory impacts
• Serve as connective tissue between various regional BU teams and TECH as needed

All about you:
• Technology qualifications are essential
• Experience in regulatory compliance and oversight
• Experience working with regional regulatory entities

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

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