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About the Role

Drive strategies, frameworks, and governance to protect the business, clients, and partners while enabling sustainable growth in a complex global payments landscape. Strengthen compliance, operational resilience, and risk management practices to support innovation with confidence and integrity. Influence critical business decisions, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and create a secure, compliant, and resilient foundation.

Responsibilities

Lead the evolution of enterprise risk and compliance programs, ensuring resilience, compliance, and strategic business growth.
Shape risk-informed decision-making by delivering insights, governance reporting, and recommendations.
Strengthen operational resilience and business continuity capabilities to minimize disruption and protect performance.
Champion a culture of accountability and ethical conduct to proactively manage risk and maintain compliance.
Drive continuous improvement across risk, audit, and assurance processes to protect people, assets, and reputation.

Requirements

Significant experience leading enterprise risk, compliance, governance, or operational risk programs in a complex, highly regulated organization.
Proven success influencing senior leaders and stakeholders to drive risk-based decisions, strengthen controls, and deliver business outcomes.
Deep knowledge of regulatory compliance, risk management frameworks, audit practices, and business continuity principles.
Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills to translate complex data, risks, and regulatory requirements into actionable recommendations.
Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and empower high-performing teams while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Risk Management
Compliance
Governance
Operational Risk
Regulatory Compliance
Audit Practices
Business Continuity
Analytical Thinking
Strategic Thinking
Leadership
Team Development
Stakeholder Influence

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director

Education Level

Advanced degree in a related field or relevant professional risk, compliance or governance certification (preferred)

About the Company

Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid, and merchant services.
The worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions, and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence.
Driven by a passion for success, delivering best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.
An inclusive and global team environment with opportunities for career growth.
Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner, and win as one team, being curious, innovative, and passionate.

Equal Opportunity

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
Provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law.