Regional Security Manager, Ssa

1 week 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

Regional Security Manager, SSA

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Mission First, People Always

As Corporate Security, we are responsible for keeping Mastercard safe and secure from cyber and physical threats, and it is our people on the frontlines who make this happen every day.

By taking care of our people, their wellbeing, and career development, we provide them the necessary tools and environment to ensure the success of our mission.

Overview:

- Support security agenda for regional offices with the Regional Chief Security Officer (RCSO) to protect MC's data, physical assets, and employees.
- Establish and cultivate strong working relationships with business and market leadership for the SSA Division to mitigate the risk to Mastercard the MC business and assets across SSA’s markets.
- Support the RCSO to build trust with all internal and external stakeholders, representing Mastercard and acting as a key point of contact for all payments 4-Party peers, law enforcement agencies, security partners, diplomatic missions, and U.S. Department of State Regional Security Offices in each market.
- Identify, assess, monitor, and manage corporate travel activity to mitigate risk to Mastercard colleagues for high-risk business travel within SSA.
- Contribute to the protective security (People, Physical, Events, Travel, Executive Protection) program to minimize risk to the business.
- Conduct security risk assessments of regional offices as needed and coordinate with the Security operations Center (SOC) to provide timely recommendations to business units.
- Support physical security systems services and coordinate new security systems installations with regional security operations team and global integrator.
- Collaborate with Global and Regional Cybersecurity assurance functions - security architects, engineers, and operations staff - to optimize the cyber and information security program to minimize risk to the business.
- Support and advise the Product Management Evaluation process to minimize risk to the business for the delivery of new and upgraded products.
- Develop and maintain regular market and security intelligence updates to the business, including threat alerts on occurrence for risks to MC assets applicable to the market.
- Engage and educate employees and senior leadership on security awareness programs, threat, and risk management.
- Collaborate closely with Sourcing & Procurement and Legal to manage security risks in legal contracts, procurement, and security vendor services capability ensuring it is conducted in a timely manner to serve the SSA division and to addresses security risks for protective security efforts, and capability.
- Manage and/or support regional security incidents and crisis response events to safeguard MC people, data, and assets by providing risk-based security advice and compensating controls in partnership with Crisis Management and Global Corporate Security functions.
- Support Corporate Security Insider Threat program and investigations through regional liaison to People and Capabilities, Employee Relations, Business Conduct Office, or Internal Audit with regards to internal investigations and audits.
- In collaboration with Public Policy & Government Engagement, support the regional business in the establishment of public sector and law enforcement relationships to support market activity.
- Support EEMEA Technology leads for the clarification of security related queries.
- Support the EEMEA Stakeholder Assurance team with resolution of customer and regulatory requests (RFQ, Regu



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