Senior Specialist, Regulatory Control Assurance

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 Specialist, Regulatory Control Assurance

Overview
Mastercard’s Global Regulatory team is responsible for liaising with regulators and law enforcement officials around the globe for the purpose of minimizing the impact of regulations on Mastercard’s business and to meet its supervisory obligations with those regulations. This newly created position is part of the Global Regulatory Compliance team and will play a key role in leading the implementation of the Global Regulatory Control Assurance (RCA) Program.

Role
At Mastercard we are committed to the highest standards of ethics and integrity. Ethics and Compliance are at the core of our company values and are essential to both the personal success of every Mastercard employee and to the success of the company.

The Senior Specialist, Regulatory Control Assurance, will address critical regulatory control assurance data by maintaining complete, accurate, and audit ready records of regulatory requirements, regulatory controls, and testing results in Mastercard’s Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platform, Archer. Beyond day-to-day stewardship, you’ll advance the tooling and methods behind the program by identifying standardization opportunities, supporting change management efforts, contributing to Independent Quality Review (IQR) activities, and helping prepare new jurisdiction for the RCA program expansion.

This is a high visibility, high impact position for someone who enjoys problem solving, thrives in a detail-oriented environment, and wants to grow their expertise while strengthening Mastercard’s global regulatory compliance capabilities.

Key Accountabilities of the Role:
• Maintain complete, accurate, and audit ready records of regulatory requirements, controls, and test scripts in Archer, ensuring strong data quality, consistent taxonomy application, and timely updates across jurisdictions.
• Prepare Independent Quality Review (IQR) workpapers, identify documentation or evidence gaps, verify that all testing activities fully adhere to RCA Program standard procedures and provide clear recommendations to strengthen program consistency.
• Identify opportunities to standardize fields, workflows, and reporting in Archer, including supporting data clean‑up efforts, data uploads, and ongoing taxonomy maintenance.
• Continuously enhance RCA governance documentation, including procedures, test script templates, walkthrough protocols, and desk top guidelines, ensuring materials reflect evolving program requirements and best practices.
• Contribute to market readiness assessments for RCA rollout and future market expansion.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders (Regulatory, Risk, Technology) to drive continuous improvement of the RCA Program.

All About You
• Experience in regulatory compliance, internal audit, risk/control assurance, operational risk management or legal operations within financial services or a similarly regulated environment, with demonstrated exposure to regulatory frameworks and control design.
• Demonstrated ability to manage documentation quality and maintain accurate records in a GRC platform or comparable system of record, including comfort with data cleansing and large dataset handling.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret regulatory requirements, understand process flows, translate regulatory obligations into control activities, assess control design, and evaluate evidence.
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset; able to prioritize, meet deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Familiarity with risk-based testing methodologies, including scoping, sampling, determining sample sizes based on frequency, and applying sound conclusion logic.
• Exposure to Independent Quality Review, SOX/ICFR, risk control self-assessment (RCSA) or internal audit QA methodologies, including reviewing evidence quality and identifying documentation gaps.
• Experience drafting or refining governance documentation such as testing procedures, templates, or standards; comfort with continuous improvement and change management.
• Strong proficiency in Excel/Power BI, or similar tools for organizing regulatory and control data, building trackers, and creating clear reports or dashboards.
• Ability to successfully navigate a multi-national organization and operating effectively within a diverse multicultural organization.
• Strong English written and verbal communication skills, coupled with meticulous attention to detail.

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.