Risk Tools Analyst

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

Risk Tools Analyst

Who is Mastercard?
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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Mission First, People Always
Corporate Security is responsible for keeping Mastercard safe and secure from cyber and physical threats. We are a highly effective team protecting a major component of global payments infrastructure. Our new Security Risk and Control Operations team is at the forefront of this effort in the “1st Line of Defense,” coordinating efforts across Corporate Security, enterprise risk management, and market-facing product teams to assess risks, implement controls to mitigate them, and provide assurance to regulators and stakeholders of Mastercard’s best-in-class performance in information security.
We are seeking a Risk Analyst to manage a suite of tools that scan/assess Mastercard’s control environment at the domain/sub-domain level and actively drive control gaps to resolution. Working directly with owners of technology assets across the business, you will investigate, assess, filter, prioritize, and interpret security-related findings to facilitate remediation, sustaining Mastercard’s high scores among several subscription-based services widely used in third party risk management.
In this position, you will:
- Lead Mastercard’s employment of a set of “sensor” tools to enhance our information security posture
- Advise asset owners on how to most effectively address findings
- Generate and track formal issues when required to escalate remediation
- Alert senior management to any new findings presenting significant risk
- Build executive-level products / scorecards that convey trends in findings and risk scores
- Leverage your expertise on these sensor tools to advise managers of third party and supply chain risks on findings against external entities
- Draft responses to regulators, customers, and other external stakeholders on Mastercard’s security profile and specific findings reported by these types of tools
- Manage user access to these tools
- Maintain documentation of all related processes and procedures
The ideal candidate for this position should be:
- Experienced with subscription-based security assessment tools for vendor risk management (e.g. RiskRecon)
- Knowledgeable of web security controls at a fairly technical level (e.g. CIS Benchmarks)
- Professionally certified in networking or information security (e.g. CompTIA+)
- Adept at recognizing control shortfalls with the most significant risk implications for the business
- Familiar with RSA Archer or similar governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tools
- Comfortable working with and communicating to a wide range of stakeholders across technology and business functions, including senior executives, technology standard owners, auditors, and information security engineers
- Effective at composing executive-level graphics and reports conveying trends
- Able to influence and drive results cross-functionally
This position aligns with National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) competency proficiency levels of advanced to expert in the following areas:
• Data Management
• Legal, Government, and Jurisprudence
• Risk Management
This Mastercard role shares Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) with the following related NICE work roles:
• Security Control Assessor
• Security Architect
• Information Systems Security Developer
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.