Senior Specialist, Regulatory Compliance

3 weeks 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.

Job Title

Senior Specialist, Regulatory Compliance, Infrastructure - Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa

Job title: Senior Specialist, Regulatory Compliance, Infrastructure - Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa

Location of role: Johannesburg, South Africa

Reporting to: Senior Managing Counsel - Regulatory Affairs, Infrastructure, and Manager - Regulatory Compliance, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region

Main Purpose of Role:
Overview

Mastercard’s Global Regulatory team is responsible for liaising with key regulators and government authorities to advocate and inform on regulations impacting the company and to ensure Mastercard complies with all applicable regulations.

This newly created position will play a key role in supporting the strategic development & implementation of regulatory processes, controls, and the compilation of regulatory submissions and correspondence both within the Mastercard Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA) region as well as globally for Mastercard.

The role will have a particular focus on regulations impacting Mastercard’s technology and infrastructure including operational resilience, third party risk management & outsourcing and security. The position will support the Mastercard global regulatory team build and develop a holistic and scalable regulatory compliance strategy in relation to these areas.

This position will report to Senior Managing Counsel, Regulatory Affairs, Infrastructure, based in London and Manager, Regulatory Compliance, EEMEA Region, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. This position is part of the Global Regulatory team.

The Role

At Mastercard we are committed to the highest standards of ethics and integrity. Ethics and Compliance are at the core of our company values and are essential to both the personal success of every Mastercard employee and to the success of the company.

The Senior Specialist, Regulatory Compliance, Infrastructure, EEMEA, will be responsible for strengthening, extending and sustaining a successful regulatory compliance program for Mastercard - focused on synergies created from regulations that cover technology risks over multiple geographic regions while at the same time maintaining a focus on meeting local regulatory compliance obligations for technology risks within the EEMEA region. The role will provide expert compliance support in order to help identify and implement best practices in regulatory compliance across the globe and will also provide regulatory compliance support to the regional team more broadly.

Key Accountabilities of the Role

This position supports Senior Managing Counsel, Regulatory Affairs, Infrastructure, and Manager, Regulatory Compliance, EEMEA region, in implementing the Global Regulatory compliance strategy within the Mastercard EEMEA region.
- Coordinate with regulatory compliance colleagues to build global best practices framework for new and evolving regulatory obligations associated with technology risks that impact Mastercard’s technology infrastructure.
- Take the lead in the development of thematic and scalable regulatory compliance approaches to emerging regulations globally.
- Provide compliance support for regulated entities and products in the EEMEA region
- Oversee execution of regulatory compliance processes and controls within the EEMEA business.
- Update and maintain Mastercard’s Global Regulatory inventories relating to regulatory reporting obligations, applicable regulations and controls.
- Provide oversight of the Regulatory Reporting Obligation process with the objective of ensuring that all reporting obligations are successfully completed within timelines.
- Produce and maintain relevant regulatory compliance policies and departmental procedures.
- Preparation of submissions to regulators ensuring accuracy and completeness and submission in line with required deadlines. Assist in the gathering of internal information in response to regulatory requests and working closely with the Technology Risk Management Stakeholder Assurance team.
- Manage compliance assurance monitoring program to ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory obligations in the EEMEA region.
- Strengthen the compliance frameworks within the EEMEA busin



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