p>Role In this position, you will: • Serve as the Settlement SME for processes, controls, governance, and settlement-risk related inquiries across Mastercard • Monitor global settlement bank partners, including completing annual risk assessments and required oversight activities • Establish and maintain policies and procedures supporting settlement, including the annual refresh of settlement procedures; ensuring alignment with evolving business needs • Review internal Settlement processes to identify control gaps, inefficiencies, or emerging risks; propose and lead improvements • Maintain and refresh business continuity plans for Settlement, including leading periodic contingency exercises with internal partners • Lead and coordinate internal and external audit exercises across Settlement • Support the global liquidity roadmap by helping define and implement liquidity solutions with settlement bank partners • Manage assigned projects end-to-end ensuring milestones, stakeholder alignment, and delivery of expected outcomes • Support the management of banking relationships, including periodic business reviews and other relationship activities • Support account maintenance and invoicing activities in partnership with GBSC Bank Admin • Serve as the Settlement representative to the Fusion Center, ensuring incident escalation and cross-functional communication.
All About You The ideal candidate for this position should:
• Have a bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, or equivalent combination of education and work experience in risk management or a related role • Strong project management experience to drive corporate objectives • Strong presentation, communication, and stakeholder-management capabilities • Demonstrated critical thinking, problem-solving, and structured analysis skills • High integrity, strong ownership mindset, and attention to detail • Ability to operate in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment and prioritize effectively • Comfortable working with senior leadership and external banking partners • Strong collaborator with a mindset of continuous improvement and operational excellence • Demonstrated ability to become a process and controls expert, with a strong desire to understand end-to-end settlement flows, risk points, and operational dependencies • Ability to serve as the go-to resource for questions related to settlement procedures, controls, risk mitigation, and governance • Prior work in a banking environment (e.g., back office, cash management, treasury solutions, or payment operations) is highly desirable • Experience with audits, SOC compliance, or risk governance is a plus.