Legal Counsel, Products

5 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Mastercard Full time

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a

culture of inclusion

for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Legal Counsel, Products

Overview
- Responsible for providing legal advice to assigned business units and/or markets providing comprehensive, end-to-end legal support by facilitating thoughtful risk-taking to enable Mastercard to deliver on strategy.

**Responsibilities**:

- Oversees all legal matters for a business unit or market, including partnering with the business and legal specialists to implement applicable laws and regulations that facilitate commercial operations and activities
- Serves as a technical expert and considers the overall benefit to the business unit or market as the highest priority when structuring legal deals and contracts
- Negotiates, drafts, and approves key business and legal agreements that are complex, high-risk, and strategic in nature
- Leads communications and training to clients on legal issues, including explaining implications on business operations and legal risks
- May engage and manage relationship with outside counsels on specific business-related research and analysis
- Serving as a technical expert, often leading cross-functional strategic initiatives and sharing legal knowledge for a business and/or market
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with Data Privacy/Use, Intellectual Property, Insurance and Regulatory attorneys.
- Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills, as well as the ability to help clients structure complex, forward-thinking technology and business solutions, managing a variety of related legal and compliance issues as well as support product launch requirements in region, factoring in legal, market and customer requirements and expectations.
- Work together with and assist other departments as required, both on a local/regional and a global level such as but not limited to Finance, the Franchise Department, Risk Management as well as their assigned functional in-house counsels.

All about you
- Successful track record in managing and resolving enterprise wide and/or strategic high-risk business issues
- Good general legal and industry skills are key requirements

Minimum of 5 -7 years PQE (Post Qualification Experience) in a Commonwealth jurisdiction
- English language capability essential

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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