Audit Delivery

• Lead the development and execution of the VLL risk-based audit plan, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, key business risks, regulatory expectations, customer obligations, and emerging industry developments.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution and maturity of the Internal Audit function through quality assurance activities, methodology enhancements, innovation, and the adoption of leading audit practices.
• Ensure appropriate and proportionate audit coverage across strategic, financial, operational, technology, cyber, resilience, and compliance risk areas.
• Oversee the delivery of multiple complex and concurrent audits, applying sound professional judgement to assess the design and operating effectiveness of key control areas.
• Drive high standards of audit quality and reporting, ensuring audit conclusions are clear, evidence-based, risk-calibrated, and supported by practical and sustainable recommendations.
• Oversee the tracking, validation, and escalation of audit issues, working with management to ensure timely remediation and effective resolution of identified risks.
• Develop and maintain audit programmes and testing approaches aligned with Internal Audit methodology and Global Internal Audit Standards.
• Leverage data analytics, technology-enabled auditing techniques, and continuous monitoring capabilities to enhance assurance coverage, efficiency, and insight generation.

People

• Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing and inclusive team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and professional excellence.
• Provide effective coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback to support colleague development, succession planning, and talent management objectives.
• Build and maintain a high-performing talent pipeline ensuring the team has the skills, expertise, and capacity required to deliver the audit plan and meet evolving business and regulatory expectations.
• Promote continuous learning, innovation, and adoption of data analytics, emerging technologies, and modern audit techniques.
• Collaborate effectively with regional and global audit teams to optimise resources, share best practices, and deliver consistent, high-quality assurance outcomes.

All About You

• Significant experience in Internal audit, Risk Management, or a related assurance function within a complex regulated environment, ideally within financial services, payments, critical national infrastructure related organisations.
• Strong understanding of governance, risk management, internal controls, and regulatory expectations within highly regulated environments.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge effectively at Executive Committee, Board Committee, regulator, customer, and senior management levels.
• Experience engaging with regulators and supporting regulatory reviews, supervisory interactions, and remediation activities within a highly regulated environment.
• Proven experience presenting to senior governance forums and developing high-quality committee papers, management reports, and strategic insights.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to align assurance activities to business priorities, product strategies, organisational objectives, and the evolving payments landscape.
• Proven track record of leading, developing, and motivating high-performing teams, including talent development, succession planning, and performance management.
• Extensive experience leading complex technology, business, operational, cyber, resilience, and integrated audits in dynamic and fast-paced environments.
• Experience leading change assurance, advisory reviews, and strategic initiatives, providing pragmatic insight while maintaining independence and objectivity.
• Experience overseeing audit issue management, including tracking, validation, escalation, and driving timely, sustainable remediation of identified control weaknesses.
• Ability to identify and communicate thematic risks, emerging control trends, and forward-looking insights.
• Experience leveraging data analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools to enhance audit coverage, improve efficiency, and deliver deeper, more actionable insights.
• Relevant professional qualification (e.g., ACA, CA, ACCA, CIA, CISA, CISSP, or equivalent) with a strong understanding of the Global Internal Audit Standards and a commitment to ensuring audit activities are conducted in conformance with those standards.
• Demonstrates a growth mindset and commitment to continuous professional development, actively seeking feedback and opportunities to build on strengths, broaden expertise, and enhance leadership effectiveness.

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.