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

Senior Counsel, Real Time Payments

Position Senior Counsel, Real Time Payments Location London, UK. As our team supports the business globally, the role may require the ability to support other time zones and some travel. Overview We are looking for a lawyer to join our legal team, providing support and advice to the Real Time Payments business including our RTP UK and International business units. If you are highly motivated, intellectually curious and analytical and enjoy tackling legal challenges, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Role This role handles commercial contracting with customers, suppliers and partners, product support and general legal support matters for the business on a day-to-day basis, identifying and analysing relevant issues and helping the business effectively navigate legal and regulatory risks and implement appropriate controls, policies and processes. Your key responsibilities will include: • Commercial Contracts: Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a variety of commercial agreements with our customers, suppliers and other partners. • Stakeholder Management and Collaboration: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, working in collaboration with specialists (including compliance, regulatory, data privacy and intellectual property counsel providing strategic legal advice and support. • Product Support: Provide comprehensive legal support throughout the product lifecycle, from development to launch and beyond. Identify and help ensure our products comply with Mastercard policies, relevant laws, regulations and industry standards • External Counsel Coordination: Instruct and manage external legal advisors within agreed policy and budget.• Ad Hoc Legal Support: Deal with whatever the business throws at you by working with the legal colleagues and, if necessary, external counsel.

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.