Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, were 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 Vice President, Risk Management Europe Risk Program Lead Overview The Europe Risk Program Lead plays an important role in advancing Mastercards risk management program in the region, working with business owners and risk functions to ensure that the region stays ahead of risks as the business evolves. The Risk Program Lead is a first line role, supporting the business units Risk Chion in implementing risk management activities across the business and managing day to day risk management operations. Responsibilities CC Management: Leading the operational elements of the CC, including ensuring the CC meets at least quarterly, coordinating the CC agenda leveraging guidance in the CC pro forma agenda, working with risk owners and other key stakeholders to prepare CC content and meeting materials, tracking action items to closure. Enterprise Risk Assessments: Facilitating periodic Business Unit risk assessments; coordinating these risks with the appropriate 2LoD function, ensuring related risks are logged and managed in a risk register. Operational Risk Assessments: Implementing and coordinating with business owners the relevant risk and control self assessments (RCSAs) across the high operational risk processes, facilitating the capture and evaluation of issues related to controls and their subsequent remediation, as well as tracking, evaluation, and assessment of loss events. Risk Workshops: Coordinating and facilitating risk workshops (e.g. to conduct risk and control assessments (RCSAs), issue management, to identify new and emerging risks). Risk Heat Maps: Developing, managing, and maintaining the Europe ERM risk heat map, tracking the progress of risk mitigation plans and challenging risk and action owners on the timely completion of mitigation plans. Risk Registers: Maintaining Business Unit risk registers utilizing approved GRC tools (e.g. OpenPages or Archer). Risk Committees and Escalation: Ensuring that key risks and their mitigations are regularly discussed at the CC meetings and escalated to the ERC or to the MCE Board or sub committees when required. Coordination with 2LoD (Second line of defense): Aligning and coordinating risk management activities and deliverables between the Europe business and relevant second line risk functions. All About You: Background in risk management or similar field. Strong knowledge of the risk assessment framework, GRC tools, and the ability to communicate risk inform