Senior Counsel, Regulatory Affairs
Mastercard
Senior Counsel, Regulatory Affairs
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.
The Legal Team for Mastercard Payment Services is looking for a Senior Regulatory Counsel to support our Norwegian business. The role involves providing legal advice and guidance on Norwegian regulatory matters, with a particular focus on the payments and financial services landscape. The Senior Counsel will support the commercial law function, especially in relation to contractual aspects and related legal documentation, ensuring that business activities are aligned with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. The role requires a qualified candidate with a minimum of five years’ relevant legal experience, and the candidate must be fluent in Norwegian. Title and Summary
• Senior Counsel
• Position – Senior Counsel, Regulatory Affairs
• Location – Oslo, Norway The role
• The Senior Counsel Regulatory Affairs will be supporting Mastercard’s two legal entities in Norway (MPS Norway), with emphasis on critical national payments infrastructure and payment services. Mastercard in Norway delivers technology services for the Norwegian Interbank Clearing System (NICS), i.e. the systems for clearing of all electronic Norwegian Krone payment transactions. MPS Norway is also service provider for all banks in Norway in terms of Avtalegiro and E-faktura, billpay services used by millions of Norwegian consumers and businesses. Mastercard thus plays a crucial part in ensuring secure and robust systems for transfer of money in Norway.
• The role is part of the Legal Team for MPS and will have a high degree of collaborative working across the Mastercard organization in the Nordics
• The Senior Counsel will be providing advice and guidance on regulatory and data privacy matters in respect of Mastercard’s services. This involves supporting customer and regulator engagement materials, updates, reports and presentations as well as engagement with internal stakeholders in the business and the Risk, Commercial Law and Privacy teams. MPS Norway sees key regulatory impact from the Norwegian National Security Act and indirect technology regulation applicable to our clients, including the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act and the Payment Systems Act.
• Further, depending on the candidate profile, the role willmay support MPS Norway within the data privacy and data protection area and be responsible for i.a. negotiating data processing agreements with customers, suppliers and other relevant parties, assisting the MPS business in relation to maintaining up-to-date processing records, as well as providing privacy advice to the business on an on-going basis.
• The candidate will assist in drafting, reviewing, and interpreting contract clauses related to direct or indirect regulatory and data privacy requirements and participate in negotiations related to the same; as well as providing legal analysis and advice on regulatory and data privacy requirements in connection with product development and supporting the commercial legal function as required.
• This is an opportunity to build highly specialized knowledge of laws and regulatory/data privacy themes relating to payments infrastructure, data sovereignty, domestic payment schemes and much more while being part of an active and collaborative local and Nordic Mastercard community.
• Mastercard puts strong emphasis on a diverse, collaborative, and respectful culture and MPS Norway is a strong community where colleagues are encouraged to engage in civic duties and sports activities. All Mastercard employees are thus granted 5 annual Volunteer Days that can be used to support community activities, and MPS Norway employees get together in MPS Active for running training, yoga, cycling, football and more.
• The position is based in Oslo and the candidate must have the ability to work from the Oslo office at least 3 days a week on average.
• The role will report into the Senior Counsel, Regulatory Affairs, MPS based in Copenhagen, Denmark. About You
• Experience as a lawyer in reputable Norwegian law firms and/or in-house counsel in Norway.
• Ability to establish overview of complex regulatory matters and identify impact on our services or internal organization.
• Experience with, or interest in, financial services regulation with emphasis on technology infrastructure, operational resilience and third-party risk management and outsourcing regulation, including the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act and local Norwegian national security regulation in respect of digital infrastructure. Experience from similar infrastructure related areas will also be relevant.
• Experience with and/or interest in data privacy law is an advantage but not a requirement.
• The ideal candidate will have the ability to think and act both strategically and tactically with respect to the needs of business clients and their objectives while ensuring that the we remain compliant with existing regulatory obligations, react to regulatory threats and opportunities, and maintain good working relationships with key regulators.
• Language requirements: Fluent in Norwegian (written and spoken). Fluent in English.
• Law degree required.
• Ability and willingness to take project management responsibility for regulatory driven processes. 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.
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