Cyber Security Specialist

**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**

Cyber Security Specialist

Our Purpose
We work 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 our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team, one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.
Cyber security Specialist, Advisors, Data & Services
Mastercard Data & Services provides cutting-edge data analysis and services to Fortune 500s, governments, and nonprofits to make multimillion-dollar business decisions and grow their organizations. Our Advisors Client Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard’s rich data assets and in-house technologies to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Mastercard Advisors work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and finance.
If you want additional information regarding the different career levels and specializations within Advisors, visit the Advisors Client Services Specializations webpage.
Overview
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Impact
- Manage deliverable development and workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements
- Contribute to the delivery of cyber security projects and support the development of strategies aligned with Mastercard’s cyber advisory offerings.
- Understand the unique cybersecurity challenges of financial institutions, fintechs, and public sector clients in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), including regulatory expectations and digital maturity.
- Implement and deliver Mastercard's cybersecurity ecosystem products to clients and take part in developing cybersecurity reports that are customized for individual clients and regions.
- Contribute to and/or develop strategies and programs for large, regional, and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value
- Link cybersecurity recommendations to tangible business outcomes—such as reduced regulatory exposure, improved customer trust, and operational continuity.
- Manage working relationships with client managers, and act as a trusted and reliable partner

Team Collaboration & Culture
- Develop sound business recommendations and deliver effective client presentations
- Plan, organize, and structure own work and that of junior project delivery consultants to identify effective analysis structures to address client problems, synthesize analyses into relevant findings, and create impactful storylines
- Operate in agile environments and scale delivery across multiple geographies. Adapt to evolving client needs and support regional delivery hubs.
- Lead team and external meetings, and lead or co-lead project management
- Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development
- Grow from coaching to enable ownership of day-to-day project management across client projects, and mentor junior consultants

**Qualifications**:
Basic qualifications
- Undergraduate or master’s degree in technology and/or cybersecurity-related fields and work experience after completing your undergraduate degree
- Experience in a consulting organization (consultant or higher level) with team management responsibility on technology and cybersecurity implementation projects
- Knowledge of Information Security Standards and best practices such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO27001, NIST, CIS, and CSA and hands-on experience in performing and managing cyber security risk & controls assessments or audits following those standards, including the definition of detailed and prioritized remediation plans
- Experience in building, assessing, and executing enterprise frameworks, programs, and solutions that balance protection and business needs
- Demonstrated working and testing knowledge of security technologies and processes such as awareness and training, cloud security, data protection and privacy, disaster recovery, endpoint protection, hardening, network security and desig