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Director, Risk Management

Purchase, New York, USFull-time$163k–$269k2026-09-25 → 2026-11-15
Based in United States

Core

Senior risk leader responsible for designing, executing, and strengthening the risk management framework for Mastercard's Core Payments business, partnering with business leadership and lines of defense to anticipate, mitigate, and remediate risk while enabling responsible growth.

Role type

Senior Director, Enterprise Risk Management

Builds

Risk policies, standards, procedures, and control frameworks for Core Payments

Domain

Payments / Digital Financial Services / Enterprise Risk Management

Required skills

Enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance, operational resilience, risk identification and assessment, scenario analysis and stress testing, audit and compliance oversight, stakeholder influence, strategic planning

Preferred skills

Payments industry expertise, digital financial products knowledge, change leadership, risk culture promotion

Technologies

Risk management frameworks, audit tools, regulatory compliance systems

Responsibilities

Design and implement risk policies and standards; Enable risk identification and monitoring across teams; Manage control deficiencies and audit findings; Act as liaison for internal audits and regulatory interactions; Drive cross-functional initiatives to embed compliance; Promote risk culture and advise on risk implications of strategic initiatives

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities