Associate Analyst, Legal Compliance

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

Associate Analyst, Legal Compliance

Associate Analyst – Legal Compliance

The Compliance team is responsible for ensuring that the business adheres to regulatory requirements including anti-money laundering policies and legislation and for delivering anti-money laundering systems that meet both policy and regulatory requirements.

The Role:

The Associate Analyst will be responsible for the processing and review of potential Sanction/Politically Exposed Persons screening matches and AML transaction alert monitoring, to detect unusual/suspicious activity on behalf of various prepaid MCP card Issuers globally.

Responsibilities:
• Log, review, investigate and escalate sanctioned party, PEP referrals in line with departmental procedures and time frames
• Handling transaction alerts/cases across the global pre-paid card business to identify potentially suspicious activity in line with departmental procedures and time frames.
• Log, review and investigate suspicious activity reports from internal and external departments/stakeholders.
• Making further enquiries into unusual activities and escalating alerts/cases in a timely manner, where required.
• Drafting Suspicious Activity Reports to be filed with the card Issuer and/or the relevant crime/government agency.
• Maintaining logs, detailing all cases.
• Ensure evidence is maintained and decisions are recorded accurately.

Core Skills:
• Strong analytical, investigation and problem-solving skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently in a team environment
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage multiple tasks to completion accurately and within departmental time frames
• Ability to make sound decisions with supporting justifications
• Understanding of anti-money laundering and sanctions requirements would be beneficial although full training will be provided

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.