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 & Security Intern, Summer 2025 - London, UK

Internship Program

The Mastercard Internship Program offers penultimate year students an immersive experience to challenge the status quo, gain real work-life skills in a global company, drive decency and belonging, and grow their personal and professional development. We invite you to bring your passion, share your talent, and make the most of this truly priceless experience.

Available Opportunities

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 Summer Internship positions in the following functions:

Technology Risk Management

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.

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.

Information Security – Operations

Responsible for the development, delivery, maintenance or monitoring of IT security policies, standards, and best practices. Implements risk management procedures, performs security threat assessments, manages user identities and access, and oversees compliance.

Security Monitoring and Response

Responsible for the development, delivery, maintenance or monitoring of security policies, standards, and best practices. Implements security monitoring procedures, performs security related incident response and investigations.

What you’ll need  

- To be available to work Full-time between 23rd June 2025 – 29th August 2025

- To be a Penultimate Masters/Undergraduate Student, due to graduate no earlier than 2026

- A passion/desire to learn more about risk or security

- Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking. 

- Ability to partner across the organization. 

- Sound communication skills. 

- Expert PC skills including proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access  

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.