Job Description

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 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:

The Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa team is looking for a Regional Security Manager, Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) to secure our people and business to thrive in a world beyond cash. will play a key role in enhancing Mastercards brand as a technology-leader. The best-fit candidate will:

• 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 SSAs 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, Regulatory queries, 4-Party stakeholder questionnaires etc.)
• Support the RCSO for the protection across other key divisions - Eastern Europe and MENA - as required and on demand.

The ideal candidate is passionate the converged security domain - across protective and information security spectrum.

All About You:

• At least 10 years experience as a security professional.
• It is desirable that the candidate have had demonstrable experience working within complex, Global organizations, serving high threat markets.
• Proven track record of delivering security services and operations in a highly volatile and sensitive environment.
• It is desirable to have knowledge of principles of converged security - protective and information security models.
• Excellent communicator, with the ability to influence key decision makers, based on threat assessment, security requirements and provide timely and actionable recommendations.
• Be sensitive to processes, and have clear, logical thinking for related duties.
• Team player with strong communication skills and can handle high pressure in a fast-paced work environment.
• Passion to continuously improve and keenness to work in a dynamic environment that is leading the digital evolution in payments and technology.
• It is desirable that the candidate has demonstrable experience working in Sub Saharan Africa.
• Ability to analyze complex threat situations, and provide geospatial, temporal, heuristic, and trend-based assessments to business decision makers.
• Must have the capacity to travel throughout Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Travel within region is at least 25 %.
• Candidate must speak English fluently.
• Hold certifications in CISM, CISSP, PSP, CPP or equivalent.

You are skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly.

You are a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker. You communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders.

You are always looking for potential solutions to solve problems and are a consummate team player.

Corporate Security Responsibility

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

Abide by Mastercards 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 Mastercards guidelines.

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 Mastercards 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 Mastercards guidelines.

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