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Senior Counsel, Global SME Solutions, London, UK
Mastercard International Incorporated · 🇬🇧 London, England (Angel Lane)
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About the role
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 Counsel, Global SME Solutions, London, UK Job Title Senior Counsel, Global SME Solutions, London, UK Overview Mastercard is seeking an experienced attorney to be responsible for providing comprehensive, end-to-end, strategic support to our global Commercial and SME Solutions business, with a focus on development of new products and services for SME. Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), as part of Commercial and New Payment Flows (CNPF) group, is responsible for building and commercializing products and services to reduce complexity, cut costs, and automate processes in micro, small, and medium businesses. The team is also tasked to grow Mastercard’s market share in small business cards. The CNPF team builds relationships within the merchant community to expand acceptance and drive revenue and supports our co-brand, commercial, and public sector customers as well as our acquirers and processors. Role The scope of work will include contract drafting and negotiation, product development, regulatory and compliance assessments, risk analysis, supporting the development and distribution of Commercial and SME Solutions offerings (including drafting and negotiating contracts, legal risk management related to payments automation and trade platforms). The role reports to the VP, Senior Managing Counsel of Global SME Solutions. The Key responsibilities for the role include: • Acting as a day-to-day advisor for SME clients by partnering with the business and legal specialists to deliver on strategy, including expanding Mastercard acceptance; and securing Mastercard’s share with merchants, acquirers, prepaid program managers, issuers and digital partners. • Advising business on a wide range of commercial and contractual matters including legal and business risk assessment; and analysis on diverse matters from new product constructs to commercial agreements. • Collaborating with internal subject matter experts to better understand and be able to advise holistically on our products and relevant regulatory, compliance, privacy and antitrust issues. • Providing support to the business development teams to enable and support product sales initiatives. • Autonomously structuring, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex customer and vendor agreements (such as Master Services, SaaS, Software and Data Licensing Agreements), including identifying legal and business risks and recommending solutions. • Engaging on strategic relationships and partnership agreements with our digital partners. • Training and educating clients on processes, risks, changes in laws and regulations and the regulatory landscape of different regions on an ongoing basis. • Partnering with regional compliance leads to ensure products and services comply with corporate policies, such as gifts and hospitality, anti-bribery and anti-corruption and third party on-boarding. • Identifying needed process improvements and efficiencies; owning and executing solutions to support our transformation strategy and driving towards streamlining processes to increase ease of doing business. All About You • Qualified lawyer with a solid academic and training background, licensed to practice in the relevant jurisdiction. • Able to work independently and collaborati