Senior Counsel, Regulatory EEMEA (Arabic Speaker)

Senior Counsel, Regulatory EEMEA (Arabic Speaker) 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 networksbine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses andernments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior Counsel, Regulatory EEMEA (Arabic Speaker)

Overview

MasterCard's Global Regulatory team is responsible for liaising with key regulators and law enforcement officials for the purpose of preventing or minimizing the impact of adverse regulations on thepany's profitability and growth potential. This position will report to the Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory for Eastern Europe and Middle East Africa ("EEMEA") based in Johannesburg.

This position is part of the Global Regulatory team from a functional perspective and EEMEA regulatory team from a regional perspective.

Role

The Senior Counsel, Regulatory Middle East and Africa role will assist in managing various regulatory matters arising in the Eastern Europe and Middle East Africa (EEMEA) region of Mastercard. This individual will :

• Support the development and execution of regulatory strategy in the region
• Proactively engage with central banks across the region to advance Mastercard's business strategy across markets
• Engage on the timely submission of regulatory filings / submission and develop responses to requests in accordance with internal processes and procedures
• Guide the organization by providing regulatory advice on various matters arising at the individual country level as well as the region level
• Participate in multi dimensional projects across business units / regions, successfully navigating throughout the organization by partnering effectively with individuals from other departments and delivering results
• Participate in the defense of thepany in proceedings or quasi- proceedings with regulators in the region
• Evaluating and identifying EEMEA and country level regulatory risk and support the teams with assessing and implementing controls to mitigate risks
• Work in close collaboration with the EEMEAernment Affairs, Data Privacy and Region Counsel teams
• Collaborate with the global regulatory teams on key regulatory developments

All About You

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networkses 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 :

Job ID R-244661