Director, Financial Crime Product & Centre of Excellence Lead

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 Director, Financial Crime Product & Centre of Excellence Lead AP Financial Crime Product and Centre Of Excellence Lead – SSO, Asia Pacific Region In the Financial Crime Solutions (FCS) team at Mastercard, we build and deliver products and services powered by payment data to detect and prevent financial crime. We are an award winning team, combining advanced data science with deep payment expertise to help financial institutions combat fraud, scams, and money laundering by uncovering the criminal behaviours that drive them. We are now building a new Centre of Excellence (COE) in Asia-Pacific, designed to act as a regional hub for the Cyber & Scam Centre. The Centre will drive scalable growth and robust delivery tailored to AP priorities, responsible for developing innovative solutions, use cases to the needs and priorities for AP. The COE aims to strengthen Mastercard’s leadership in anti scam and fraud prevention through thought leadership and industry engagement. Overview of Accountabilities: This role is responsible for developing and implementing strategies, building partnerships, and supporting commercialization initiatives to drive adoption of Mastercard’s Financial crime suite of solutions across different segments, which includes government, Financial institutions, e-commerce platforms, digital players etc. This role also manages product performance tracking, budget forecasting, drafting of white papers, developing narratives, managing communications and ongoing collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to enhance Mastercard’s product offerings and national security postures across the Asia Pacific region. • Thought Leadership & Advocacy o Position Mastercard as a trusted advisor to private and public sectors across Asia Pacific. o Represent Mastercard at regional forums, industry events, and policy dialogues to influence and shape the national agenda that enable Mastercard Financial Crime Solutions. o Financial Crime Industry expert, driving and implementing AP Centre Of Excellence objectives and strategies. o Develop narratives, manage external communications (e.g. white papers, thought leadership efforts with different industries bodies, universities, providing talk tracks to senior leaders etc) • Owning Go-To- Market Strategy o Develop, own and implement AP GTM Strategy that drives collaboration between different government sector and Financial institutions for Mastercard Financial Crime Solution. This includes  identifying and prioritizing opportunities/ markets for deployment;  Identifying local market nuances on all fronts (i.e. regulation, policy, PII requirements, technical requirements etc), and work with respective team (e.g. tech, DS etc) to cover the nuances and deploy  Understand MA FCS and other COE offerings functionality and features, and commercialization of products in consultation with internal stakeholders. Map these products/ services to the needs of FCS customers and identify new opportunities and positioning products to prospects. This also includes RFP submission for FCS solutions o Policy/ Regulation Enablement: Advocating for harmonized regulations and standards to support Financial Crime Solutions deployment. o Identify and engage relevant government agencies, buyers, decision makers, influencers across AP in forming GTM / deployment for FCS solutions and services o New opportunities qualification: Guide and work through new opportunities presented f ... (truncated, view full listing at source)