About This Role
This role is for a Manager, Risk Management within the First Line Risk & Controls team of Real-Time Payments International (RTPI). The position focuses on maturing the identification, ownership, management, and reporting of risk across real-time payments markets. It suits an experienced risk and controls professional with a background in technology, payments, or financial services.
Responsibilities
- Partner with product, engineering, operations, and risk teams to identify, assess, monitor, and manage key risks and controls, providing constructive challenge where appropriate
- Monitor the risk and control environment, identifying emerging risks, trends, issues, and areas requiring management attention or escalation
- Support risk and control assessments, assurance activities, operational resilience, business continuity, and audit, and drive the effective remediation of identified weaknesses
- Maintain high-quality risk information and deliver clear, insightful reporting to support management decision-making
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve risk and control processes, monitoring, and reporting
- Build strong relationships across the business, promoting a strong culture of risk ownership and accountability
Requirements
- Advanced, applied knowledge of risk and control frameworks and the three lines of defence model, ideally within technology, payments, or financial services
- Ability to identify, assess, monitor, and manage operational and technology risks, providing constructive and proportionate challenge to the business
- Strong analytical skills combined with the ability to understand complex issues and translate risk requirements into practical, sustainable actions
- Clear and confident communicator, able to produce insightful risk reporting and influence stakeholders across product, engineering, and risk teams
- Comfortable operating across organisational boundaries, building trusted relationships and promoting risk ownership and accountability
Nice to have:
- Working knowledge of GRC tooling (e.g. Archer, OpenPages)
- Familiarity with operational resilience, business continuity, and audit/assurance activities
- Understanding of real-time payments or critical payment infrastructure
- A relevant professional risk qualification or certification
About the Company
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Together with its customers, the company helps build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper, supporting a wide range of secure, simple, smart, and accessible digital payment choices.
