Analyst, Risk Management

Overview

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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

The Americas Strategy and Operations team is looking for a Risk Management/Data Scientist candidate to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

Risk Management Analyst/Data Scientist

We are looking for Analyst within the Strategy and Operations team to support Enterprise Risk Management in NAM market supporting the application and compliance of operational risk management processes, policies and practices. The main responsibilities would be:

• Maintain the cross-functional initiatives to track on risk causes, impact, mitigation and action plans of existing and potential regional risks
• Participates in the risk management process, including documenting, reviewing and updating systems on a regular basis
• Supports special projects as requested; provides ad-hoc support to senior management
• Performs, updates and maintains existing access and reports from the customer risk management system

As a data scientist on our team, you will have the opportunity to create high-performance analytic solutions based on data sets measured in the billions of transactions and front-end visualizations to unleash the value of big data.

You will have the opportunity to develop and maintain advanced reporting and data visualization capabilities on large volumes of data to support analytics and reporting needs across products, markets and services.

Develop data-driven innovative analytical solutions and identify opportunities to support business needs in a quantitative manner and facilitate informed recommendations/decisions by performing jobs in big data cluster by using different execution engines and program languages such as Hive/Impala, Python, Spark

Provide insights/conclusions/assessments and present findings via Tableau/Power

BI dashboards, Excel and Power Point

Adhere to hybrid work policy (Hybrid work is defined as 3 or more days per week on average working in the assigned Mastercard office)

• Years of experience in Risk Management, Compliance, or Audit
• Years of experience in data management, data mining, data analytics, data reporting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Self-motivated, operates with a sense of urgency. Able to prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Project Management/Risk Mitigation
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Domo, Power
  
  BI, Excel, Power Point
• Experience with Hadoop environments, Python, Spark, advanced SQL coding
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills with attention to detail.
• Financial Institution or a Payments experience a plus
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Economics, Business, Risk Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics

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.

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