Specialist, Legal Services

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
Specialist, Legal Services
Mastercard Europe Legal Generalist team, part of the CAO (Chief Administration Office) Business Unit, provides legal support to CAO and business partners across Mastercard.
Role:
As a Legal Specialist within the legal team, you will collaborate with colleagues in the legal department to give pan-European support to our European business and to be the point of contact between the legal team, our legal partners, and our clients.
As an insight, the Legal Specialist:• Manages the Corporate Housekeeping part of the Company and work with the Company legal services provider to maintain the company's legal files up to date to ensure compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, policies and procedures• Provides support on Corporate Governance matters for MCE (including support to the Corporate legal team and Europe Boards)• Provides support in contracts drafting and review• Provides paralegal and contract administrative support to legal specialists and legal generalists to enable Mastercard to achieve its strategic objectives• Reviews, collates, and compiles information including assisting in legal documents/contracts/matters• Maintains and documents status of all existing and new legal documents/contracts/matters and tools• Content management within MC/Law Department database with copies of legal documents and information related to our entities.• Analyses and draws legal report from the available legal tools• May assist in administrative activities related to training sessions and/or events conducted by the Law Department (volunteering activities, Team building, offsites, etc..)
Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in paralegal or legal studies• Good legal and analytical and problem-solving skills• Ability to manage workloads involving different tasks of varying priority and complexity• Ability to deliver on a timely basis • Comfortable interacting with stakeholders at various levels and be an excellent communicator• Team player with excellent communication and people skills• Structured, results driven and solution oriented• Stress tolerant, motivated and proactive• Excellent written and verbal skills in English• Any additional European language will be considered an asset• Excellent command of MS Office tools
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.