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Title and Summary

Legal Counsel, Andean Division

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.

Overview
The LAC Law team is responsible for all legal aspects of Mastercard’s business in said region, while the South LAC Division Law team is responsible for all legal aspects of Mastercard’s business in South America (except for Brasil).
The candidate will have the ability to think and act both strategically and tactically with respect to the needs of business clients and their objectives while ensuring that the corporation remains compliant with law, and industry best practices.

Role
Corporate Governance LAC:
•\tCorporate housekeeping for Mastercard’s rep/branch offices and subsidiaries across LAC, including assisting with the management of our regional corporate secretarial legal services provider (CITCO).
•\tDraft and review of corporate minutes, including but not limited to, for the appointment of legal representatives, approval of financial statements, granting of POAs, in all cases ensuring accuracy and compliance with local regulations.
•\tAssist and/or vote in corporate committees, where applicable.
•\tRevise and supervise approval chain of financial statements through the regions.
•\tMaintain and update corporate governance policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with best practices and legal standards.
•\tManagement of the Delegation of Authority + Signature Workflow (incl. e-signature tool)
•\tContract management (incl. SalesForce, Ariba, contract template management)
practices.
•\tGBSC liaison for LAC legal team, assisting with the transitioning of standardized and repeatable work to the GBSC and maintaining an ongoing dialogue to measure performance and look for improvements.
•\tTraining the LAC regional legal team’s internal customers on the above matters.

Legal Marketing South LAC:
•\tReview and approve from legal standpoint marketing events and engagements, ensuring compliance with local legislation and company marketing codes (Mastercard rules and good practices).
•\tEvaluate marketing materials, including advertisements, brochures, and digital content, for legal compliance and adherence to company policies.
•\tMonitor changes in marketing regulations and provide guidance to ensure ongoing compliance.

Agreements for the COVEC cluster (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana and Surinam):
•\tDrafts, reviews, prepares and negotiates routine legal agreements, documents, usually leveraging established templates, particularly for the COVEC cluster.
•\tChecks for discrepancies and inconsistencies in documents, contracts and matters; makes suggestions for resolution and works to incorporate final amendments.
•\tManages the administration of the document management system; including tracking, compiling and disseminating information on a regular basis.
•\tParticipate in internal and external meetings and negotiations with attorneys and cross functional projects/matters.
•\tPrepares materials for training sessions and/or events conducted by the law department; including providing on-site assistance.
•\tManage agreement templates to ensure current Mastercard standard terms and conditions are appropriately updated.
•\tEnsure compliance with laws while affording Mastercard flexibility to conduct its affairs.
•\tDraft legal documents and business communications, and assist in the preparation of filings, registrations, and responses; represent Mastercard in front of customers, vendors, authorities and regulators. Manage the contract administration process to ensure proper contract drafting, negotiation and fulfillment in accordance with Mastercard policies, legal requirements and customer specifications.

All About You
•\tLaw Degree. Masters in Law and/or business administration is desirable.
•\tSolid +5 years of experience in practice of law (top tier law firm or Multinational Corporate in-house experience) in the areas of general commercial, corporate, contracts.
•\tSolid corporate housekeeping experience, as well as experience in transitioning standardized and repeatable work to a shared services center.
•\tIs able to interact directly with colleagues at all levels and departments (ranging from junior account managers to Division Presidents and across all departments) and translate complex matters into pragmatic and easy-to-understand solutions.
•\tFluent in Spanish and English (both orally as in writing).
•\tMust be able to contribute and operate effectively within a diverse multicultural organization.
•\tPositive “can do it” attitude, be stress resistant and ready to go the extra mile.
•\tTeam player who is both organizationally savvy and a strong communicator able to collaborate cross-functionally and across regions.
•\tThorough, meticulous and attention to detail but nevertheless able to prioritize, focus on the important rather than just urgent matters and get the job done.
•\tCreative approach to problem-solving.
•\tExperience in the following areas not crucial but desirable: banking, payment systems and payment products, fintech, sponsorship, marketing (including promotions, regulations, licensing, franchising, e-commerce, technology, telecommunications, labor law).
•\tKnowledge of banking business (payment systems and cards, knowledge of clearing and settlement processes) is useful.
•\tDemonstrated consistent success working with partners across other functions in support of product go-to market strategies.
•\tEmpathetic and easy to establish strong relationship with internal and external clients.
•\tAbility to draft high quality corporate agreements and documentation in both English and Spanish; ability to find creative solutions to contractual issues to reach resolution, taking a pragmatic, commercial approach to balancing legal risks against business interests.
•\tAbility to handle multiple projects at one time.
•\tStrong interpersonal skills, team player, appreciation of diverse cultural methods of working and doing business, in particular, for LAC.
•\tAbility to interact with business clients and Mastercard customers on all matters of legal business.
•\tAlways look for potential solutions to solve problems.
•\tBe a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders.
•\t Legal bussines partner for the organization.

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.