Vice President, Financial Crime & Identity Solutions

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

Vice President, Financial Crime & Identity Solutions

• The Cyber and Intelligence Solutions team is responsible for product management and innovative product development of products and services to address the evolving risk and security needs of all of MasterCard’s various customer segments.
• As part of this organization, the Identity Solutions Team leads and fosters the creation of innovative solutions focused on ensuring the methods used to verify cardholders and users are secure and user friendly.

The Opportunity
• Drive the implementation and commercialization of innovative new products and programs solutions to foster the adoption of new authentication technologies in AP
• Collaborate with Regional stakeholders and other product team (e.g. Commercial Product, Product Management, Emerging Payments, Franchise, etc.) to gather requirements and ensure solutions development is aligned with business objectives specific to the AP market.
• Participate in special projects and strategic initiatives with cross-functional stakeholders.

What are we looking for?
• Have you ever brought a product to market on a global scale?
• Are you motivated to be a part of securing the growth of electronic payments for all devices and channels?
• Do you enjoy working with dynamic, cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, high-visibility role?

The Role

• Drive product commercialization efforts of innovative new products and program solutions to foster the adoption of new authentication technologies in AP
• Lead the creation of an enterprise authentication framework and support the adoption by regional and product teams.
• Support the development of requirements and an integrated product roadmap around enterprise customer authentication offerings by working with product teams throughout the company.
• Provide support to other business units to support authentication and fraud related efforts.
• Research and monitor industry trends in consumer and payment authentication.
• Evaluate new consumer authentication capabilities being provided by major digital players and leading vendors to evaluate their fit within MasterCard Solutions.
• Establish a rapid prototyping capability and program to support the launch of evaluation of new technologies.
• Generate ideas, drive concept validation and create product design for new services/ product enhancements.
• Assist with the strategy development for emerging authentication solutions.

All About You

• Strategic thinking skills and the ability to translate solutions to clear, actionable goals and metrics
• Solid background in product management with strong business focus
• Strategic perspective on how new technology can be leveraged to benefit the Payment System
• Ability to communicate with all areas of the company verbally and written; ability to develop effective presentations
• Strong cross-functional / multi stakeholder management skills
• Collaborative style with experience of working in a regional/ global team

The following attributes are desirable:
• Experience in authentication or fraud technologies with a good understanding of Electronic Payments Business
• Strong analytic skills to unravel complex matters and do impact analysis of different options
• Knowledge of authentication, fraud prevention, and security methodologies.

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.