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 of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual 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.

Title and Summary

Risk Analyst, Launch Graduate Program 2025 – London, UK

Mastercard Launch

Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure. You will not only enhance your professional growth and skills in a global setting, you’ll launch your Mastercard career.

The role

Please specify if you have a preferred function as part of your application or if you are open to all. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants to the most suitable role.

For 2025, we have the following Graduate Launch positions in Risk:

Associate Analyst, Risk Management

Responsible for managing risks to the company, its customers, shareholders, employees, and assets. Strives to identify and mitigate potential risk (e.g. strategic, financial, operational, legal/ regulatory, brand/ reputation) to the company and provides risk management analysis, support, coordination, and oversight across the company.

Technology Risk Analyst I

Monitors technology risk and compliance, and develops, delivers, maintains and monitors IT policies, standards, and best practices. Oversees compliance and the implementation of design (up-to-date standard operating procedures) and operational (testing the validity of procedures periodically) effectiveness.

What you’ll need:

- To be available for start from 1st September 2025 

- To be a Final Year Masters/Undergraduate Student or to have graduated no earlier than September 2024

- Clear interest and ambition to work in Risk Management

- Strong verbal and written communication skills   

- Analytical and problem-solving skills 

- Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude 

- Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently 

- High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership and desire to succeed with commensurate analytical, technical, and strategic skills  

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.