Senior Intelligence Analyst

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 Intelligence Analyst
Overview• The Mastercard Intelligence Center (MCIC) delivers actionable intelligence that anticipates threats and drives risk-based decisions to safeguard our people, networks, data, and business.• Our team collects, analyzes, and disseminates intelligence on geopolitical developments, cyber threats, fraud trends, physical security risks, and emerging technologies that could impact Mastercard's people, operations, and customers. • Through continuous monitoring, advanced analysis, and deep partnerships with industry, government, and law enforcement, the MCIC helps to protect the trust ecosystem that underpins Mastercard's global network and strengthens enterprise resilience.
Role• Collect, process, analyze, publish, and disseminate threat intelligence for Mastercard• Leverage that intelligence to threat-inform risk-based decisions across the organization• Author risk assessments that capture threat landscape impacts to business operations• Brief intelligence analysis to senior and executive internal stakeholders• Lead partnerships with internal stakeholders, principally Regional Security and Crisis Management, to fuse intelligence from across the organization• Lead partnerships with external stakeholders such as government departments, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and industry to enable threat intelligence sharing across public and private partners• Support threat scenario development for red teaming, exercising, and resilience testing
All About You• Possesses a strong analytical mindset with experience collecting, evaluating, and synthesizing intelligence from diverse sources (open-source, technical, geopolitical, cyber, fraud, or physical security).• Demonstrates solid understanding of intelligence tradecraft, including structured analytic techniques, threat modeling, and risk assessment methodologies.• Understands key threat domains (geopolitical, physical security, cyber) and can quickly learn emerging trends to assess their business impact.• Has experience monitoring threat activity and translating complex information into clear, actionable intelligence products for technical and non-technical audiences.• Communicates effectively in writing and verbally to senior executive audiences, with the ability to brief senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders with clarity and confidence.• Demonstrates sound judgment, curiosity, and a proactive approach to identifying threats and informing risk-based decisions.• Holds a bachelor's degree in intelligence studies, political science, cybersecurity, international affairs, or a related discipline.
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.