Mastercard

Payments

DataAnalysisLeadServiceMapping&Strategy

London, United Kingdom; Waterloo, Belgium FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Data Analysis Lead – Service Mapping & Strategy at Mastercard. Skills: Service Mapping, Data Analysis, Strategy Development, Operational Resilience. Shaping the strategy to enable service resilience, technology transformation, and client-focused service operations across the live-markets portfolio of RTP International. Supporting business functions to identify, own, manage and report how they operate and identify improvements”

What You'll Achieve.

Improve customer experience; Improve system resilience; Business growth; Achieve a stable and resilient Real-Time Payment service; Deliver identifiable improvements in accordance with the wider business, customer, regulatory and compliance requirements; Improve automation and tooling to support BAU service mapping rollout; Improve stability, resilience, and scalability

Industry & Context.

Payments
Problems you'll solve

Identify gaps in resilience; Identify gaps in service maturity; Drive targeted initiatives to improve stability, resilience, and scalability

Eligibility Requirements

Abide by Mastercard’s security policies, Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being, Report any suspected information security violation or breach, Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Extensive experience in business, data and process driving improvement through data-driven insights, communication, and strategic thinking to boost efficiency and achieve goals, Extensive experience in ITIL proven understanding and application of service mapping within an IT service management practice, Experience and clear understanding of service analysis and mapping, including regulatory, contractual, and operational service perspectives across complex inter-dependant services, Good communicator with moderate experience in stakeholder management and engagement, Good understanding Mastercard Realtime / Faster Payments services, processes, technologies, and solutions, Moderate professional experience in financial services, cards, payments, or another related field

Nice to Have

Workshop design and facilitation experience beneficial but not essential, Experience building relationships and working with technical, business and financial stakeholders

What You'll Do.

Shaping the strategy to enable service resilience

technology transformation

and client-focused service operations across the live-markets portfolio of RTP International

Supporting business functions to identify

manage and report how they operate and identify improvements

Translating complex data into actionable intelligence that improves customer experience

executing and evolving the plans and roadmap to achieve a stable and resilient Real-Time Payment service

Facilitating and uplifting the establishment of an organisation-wide view of our services and mapping contracted and operational services to the products

infrastructure and processes required to deliver them

Executing the definition of detailed service maps

identifying gaps in resilience and delivering identifiable improvements in accordance with the wider business

regulatory and compliance requirements

Developing and executing service management strategy aligned with Mastercard’s RTP International business and technology objectives

Translating strategic roadmaps into concrete execution plans

Partnering with product and engineering teams to ensure operational readiness for platform enhancements

and regulatory changes

Supporting the development of the overall Service Mapping approach and strategy and defining standards

Leading the development and uplift of regulated business services required to support our Operational Resilience outcomes and engagement across the Mastercard live markets

Defining outputs and the activities required to deliver fit-for-purpose service mapping for each type of identifying gaps in resilience or improvements to be assessed within a risk-based model

technology and process analysis activities including information gathering

stakeholder engagement and workshop supporting and uplifting current BAU support mechanisms in line with the service mapping approach

Collaborating with the wider operational resilience team to develop outputs and artefacts

such as findings reports

leadership presentations that deliver insights and recommendations based on the specific service mapping informing and developing improvements to improve automation and tooling to support BAU service mapping rollout

Reporting on aligning with key objectives being measured above and co-ordinating activities with peers

Identifying gaps in service maturity and driving targeted initiatives to improve stability

Translating complex technical and operational topics into clear

actionable insights for senior stakeholders

Partnering with regional teams to ensure consistent service standards while accommodating local market requirements

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with product, engineering, risk, and business teams; Working in collaboration with other functions such as Business and Service Operations, Engineering, Risk, Controls, Product and Customer Account in line with wider Technology and Operations team; Collaborate with the wider operational resilience team; Partner with regional teams

Communication Scope

Good communicator with moderate experience in stakeholder management and engagement; Translating complex technical and operational topics into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders

Process & Methodology

Translating strategic roadmaps into concrete execution plans, milestones, and success metrics

Full 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** ### Data Analysis Lead – Service Mapping & Strategy ### 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. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Job description. What is the opportunity? This is an exciting opportunity in shaping the strategy to enable service resilience, technology transformation, and client-focused service operations across the live-markets portfolio of RTP International and also to support business functions to identify, own, manage and report how they operate and identify improvements. You will collaborate with product, engineering, risk, and business teams to translate complex data into actionable intelligence that improves customer experience, system resilience, and business growth.The successful candidate will become part of a high performing team, dedicated to delivering payment services across the globe, underpinning over 3

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