Senior Counsel, Mastercard Move

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greater london

**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, Mastercard Move Overview Mastercard Move is Mastercard’s portfolio of money movement capabilities powering a variety of payment experiences. Mastercard Move provides banks, non-bank financial institutions, direct disbursers, and their customers with a fast, transparent, secure and efficient money transfer solution, domestically and internationally. Mastercard is seeking an experienced lawyer to join the global product legal team supporting Mastercard Move. Role The role requires strong commercial knowledge and experience in payments, remittances or related financial services. The role will act as an advisor for Mastercard Move Product and Sales teams by partnering with the business to deliver on commercial objectives and strategy. This role will report to the Senior Managing Counsel in the Mastercard Move legal team based in New York. The key responsibilities for the role include: • Providing end-to-end support for the development of new products and capabilities for Mastercard Move. • Structuring, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of contracts, including managing updates to standard customer documentation. • Collaborating with in-house and external specialists (including Regulatory, Compliance, and Data Privacy) to identify relevant issues, help the business effectively navigate legal risks, and implement appropriate controls. • Training and educating clients on processes, risks, and the current legal landscape. • Identifying needed process improvements and efficiencies; streamlining processes to increase ease of doing business. • Taking responsibility for special projects while continuing to handle a steady stream of day-to-day matters. All About You • Qualified lawyer with extensive experience, preferably including both law firm and in-house work experience. Familiarity with UK/EU laws and regulations in the payments and remittances spaces will be considered favorably. • Able to work independently as well as collaboratively, spot issues, prioritize, and multi-task effectively in a fast-paced environment. • Able to effectively communicate complex legal concepts to legal and business executives, product owners, and other stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner. • Strong drafting and negotiating skills with the ability to understand and simplify complex concepts, issues, technologies, and deal structures. • Solution-oriented and able to work flexibly, under pressure, and with tight deadlines. **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.