Company Secretary - Vice President Job Listing at Mastercard in London, England (Job ID R-253841)

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

Company Secretary - Vice President Overview
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we help 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.

Leveraging Mastercard's global payments network, our account-to-account business provides domestic and cross-border solutions to enable a frictionless future of payments. We help our customers leverage rich messaging functionality and applications to capture business and consumer payment flows both domestically and cross-border; offer solutions to connect, enable, and safeguard the Open Banking ecosystem, and protect banks and their customers from financial crime. All this is supported by account-based data insights and consulting to help our clients optimise their payment strategies across the world.

Additionally, Vocalink Limited, our UK business, runs the critical national infrastructures (CNI) that power the UK's real-time and file-based payments and Direct Debit systems, as well as the country's network of ATMs. Globally, our real-time payments infrastructure fuels the digital agenda and payments innovation in Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Peru and the United States.

The role will primarily be as the Company Secretary to Vocalink Limited, a provider of (CNI), regulated by the Bank of England and have overall responsibility for the Vocalink Group entities. In addition, the role will provide advice and support to the company secretary functions for several of Mastercard's directly regulated entities. These include, but are not limited to, the Mastercard Payment Services (MPS) entities, the Mastercard Open Banking Services (MCOBS) entities and the Mastercard Transaction Services (MTS) entities (collectively, the “DRE Businesses”).

This newly created role offers a unique and exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to shape and define the position from the ground up. The role will be to work with a team of corporate governance professionals, with extensive experience in designing, maintaining and operating Board and corporate governance structures in some of Mastercard's most regulated subsidiaries.


Role
We are searching for a Company Secretary/Corporate Governance Professional to lead the provision of company secretarial services to the Vocalink business and advise the DRE Businesses. This person will lead a team of two Assistant Company Secretaries who oversee the Corporate Secretary function for Vocalink and also have a dual reporting line into them from the other Company Secretaries of the DRE Businesses. This person will report to the Assistant General Counsel for Real Time Payments and dual report to the Deputy Corporate Secretary for the overall Mastercard Group within the Global Legal Entity Management Team (“MC GLE Team”).

Role Accountabilities:
• Company Secretarial support for the Vocalink entities.
• Lead and manage a team of company secretaries/corporate governance professionals to ensure effective governance across Vocalink.
• Statutory & Regulatory corporate governance compliance for Vocalink and advise the DRE businesses.
• Governance Framework and best practices for Vocalink and the DRE Businesses

Key Activities:

• Team Management: Lead a team of corporate governance professionals to ensure effective governance practices across Vocalink and advise and offer support via a dual reporting line from the other Company Secretaries of the DRE Businesses.
• Collaboration: Work with the Global Legal Entity Management Team to implement best practices for Mastercard's regulated entities.
• Policy Development: Develop and standardize governance policies and procedures across Vocalink and all DRE Businesses.
• Resource Optimization: Ensure efficient use of resources within the governance team and leverage synergies across entities.
• Mentoring: Provide advice, mentoring, and development opportunities for all the company secretariat teams.
• Board Support: Ensure ongoing Company Secretarial support for the Vocalink Limited Board, including planning, agenda setting, and follow-up actions.
• Board Interaction: Encourage effective interaction between each Board and its Accountable Executives across Vocalink and the DRE Businesses.
• Compliance Monitoring: Monitor Vocalink compliance with governance, legal, and regulatory requirements, and advise the DRE Businesses where required.
• Director Management: Overall responsibility for Vocalink Director appointments, inductions, resignations, training, and applicable regulatory applications.
• Board Reviews: Coordinate External Board Effectiveness Reviews and deliver action plans for the Vocalink Limited Board.
• Governance Documents: Oversee annual Board and Committee Schedule of Matters, Terms of Reference, and key governance documents for the Vocalink Limited Board and its Committees.
• Statutory Disclosures: Overall responsibility for statutory disclosures, including Annual Report & Accounts and Modern Slavery Statement for the Vocalink entities.
• Legal Entity Management: Overall responsibility for statutory filings and maintenance of statutory registers and records for the Vocalink entities.
• Team Development and Thought Leadership: Develop the capabilities of the Vocalink Company Secretarial Team to ensure quality support and growth opportunities and act as a mentor and advisor to the company secretaries of the DRE Businesses.
• Relationship Building: Foster relationships with MC GLE Team, Company Secretarial teams, assigned attorneys, and related functions within the Mastercard Group.
• Reporting: Provide regular updates to Mastercard group executives on corporate governance in the DRE Businesses.
All About You
The successful candidate will possess the following experience:
• Proven experience working in a senior company secretary / corporate governance professional role in listed entities and/or entities facing significant direct regulation by e.g. financial regulators or central banks.
• Experience working in political environments, building strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, corporate executives and other functions necessary for the performance of the role.
• Ability to influence, anticipate and proactively address issues that may arise.
• Highly organized and detailed oriented: proficient in managing competing priorities and multi-tasking in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to build relationships and interact effectively with individuals at all levels.
• Strategic thinking and thought leadership; ability to provide strategic advice and support to senior leaders, ensuring alignment with team and organizational goals.
• Collaborative leadership style: ability to foster collaboration and resolve conflicts within the corporate governance structure of the DRE Businesses as well as other parts of the global Mastercard organization.

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.

 Apply on company website