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About the job
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
Counsel
Counsel – EEMEA, Cross-Border Services
Job Family - Legal Specialists
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. 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Job Title
Counsel -- EEMEA, Cross-Border Services
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Overview
Mastercard’s Cross-Border Services team (XBS) is driving innovation and growth to meet today’s demands for simple, certain, and secure international payments. XBS is a portfolio of integrated assets and capabilities designed to service key verticals and multiple payment experiences. Through a single connection, we enable partners the ability to reach a variety of endpoints—account, card, mobile wallet, or cash payout—nearly anywhere in the world. XBS is seeking an experienced lawyer to join the Transfer Solutions legal team.
Role
The role requires strong commercial knowledge and experience in the financial, payment services or remittance space. The role will act as an advisor for product development and commercial business teams by partnering with the specialists to deliver on commercial objectives and strategy. The ideal candidate is passionate about the financial inclusion, building inclusive and sustainable products, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. Day-to-day work will include contract drafting and negotiation, regulatory and compliance assessments, and risk analysis.
This Full-time Role Will Report Into The Senior Counsel In The Transfer Solutions Legal Team Based In Dubai. The Key Responsibilities For The Role Include:
All About You
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: