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Title and Summary

Senior Analyst, Risk Management

Overview

The Senior Analyst, Risk Management supports the Mastercard Brazil Risk Management Team in the design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of the Risk Management Framework, ensuring alignment with Mastercard standards, applicable local regulatory requirements and industry best practices. The role contributes to the enhancement of risk governance, infrastructure, and enabling tools underpinning the framework, including associated methodologies, policies, procedures, and reporting.

Role

• Support the governance, rollout, embedding, and reporting of key Risk Management Framework components, including risk appetite, the risk operating model, governance arrangements, and risk culture initiatives.
• Assist with the preparation of management information (MI), dashboards, and reporting for internal governance forums and regulatory audiences.
• Maintain, update, and govern risk policies, standards, and procedures, including coordination of periodic reviews, stakeholder consultations, and approval processes.
• Design, document, and maintain end‑to‑end process maps, workflows, and procedural guides, ensuring proper version control and centralized documentation.
• Support the development of risk‑related training materials, participate in training activities, and help ensure colleagues perform their roles in accordance with the Risk Management Framework.
• Monitor adherence to risk policies and processes across the First Line of Defense and contribute to risk assurance activities by providing insights, data, and explanations.
• Provide broader support to the Mastercard Brazil Risk Management Team, as required.

All About You

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 -7 years of relevant work experience in internal controls, audit, risk management, or compliance, preferably within payments, financial services, or regulated environments.
• Strong reporting and presentation skills, including advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of risk management principles, including the Three Lines of Defense model, sound risk governance practices, and financial services risk and compliance frameworks.
• Ability to leverage AI tools to enhance risk management activities, including improvements to framework documentation.
• Experience with reporting and business intelligence tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, Domo, or Access.
• Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, or a related field.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English required.

Additional Capabilities

• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to self‑start, prioritize effectively, solve problems, and work under pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with professional behaviors aligned to company standards.
• Strong collaboration and relationship‑building skills within cross‑functional teams.

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.