Job Description
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 Vice President, Technology Risk Management Overview This is an exciting opportunity to help lead cyber security delivery for Vocalink Limited, a company that operates the Critical National Infrastructure enabling almost all salary payments, utility bill payments, most ATM transactions, and every cheque cleared in the UK. The successful candidate will become part of a high performing team, dedicated to delivering a secure and resilient service to 60+million citizens every day with annual transactional value in excess of GBP12 Trillion. The UK depends on us and we are proud of the trust placed in us. The VP, Cyber Security Risk & Control leads on articulating the firm’s risk appetite and actual posture relative to that appetite, using a blent of appropriate industry-standard techniques to describe appetite, inherent risk and threat vectors, control strength, residual risk, specific risks and issues. As such, the role translates the technical outcomes of the wider security team into consumable and actionable outputs for our stakeholders, and steers our cyber investment plans, strategy and operational execution. This is not an administrative or reporting role: We see appetite definition and well-articulated execution against it as a foundational element of our strategy, sharing the risk and rewards of success across the entire team. When done well, this role retains and grows the confidence of our board, customers, shareholders, and regulators. As such it is a vital and part of our strategy to retain and grow our existing business, and earn our part in the future of the UK Payments ecosystem.
