Analyst, Legal Compliance

Our Purpose
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Title and Summary
Analyst, Legal Compliance
OVERVIEW
At Mastercard, we are committed to protecting our network from being used to facilitate money laundering or terrorist financing. The Global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has implemented a customer monitoring program to meet regulatory obligations, support internal stakeholder investigations and to ensure that external constituents have robust programs in place to meet Mastercard and regulatory requirements.
The FIU is responsible for conducting data analysis, alert dispositioning and ad-hoc investigations, through AML typologies and rules as well as from other data sources, to monitor customer behavior and facilitate compliance investigations.
The MTS (Mastercard Transaction Services) is a shared services organization for Mastercard and the MTS team supports the FIU in meeting compliance obligations.
The Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance position is located in the MTS and reports to the Manager, Legal Compliance. The Senior Analyst will support the FIU by conducting AML related activities as part of the customer monitoring and investigation process. Working under general supervision, this role will leverage an existing understanding of AML/CFT practices and data analysis skills, including extracting and preparing data, drawing conclusions, performing moderately complex research and root cause analysis, assessing risk factors and completing other assigned compliance activities.
ROLE• Conduct AML transaction monitoring and ad-hoc investigations and research, through data analytics and in-depth analysis of data across different regions and countries• Utilize Mastercard resources to perform accurate data queries: i.e., system software, reports, data warehouse tables, and system applications • Utilize data mining techniques to identify behavioral patterns, relationships and significant insight found in large data sets• Summarize and document data analysis activity patterns and trends to detect potential red flags• Demonstrate proficient manipulation of data using tools such as Microsoft Excel • Maintain a high degree of professional competence in the area of Financial Crimes investigations through self-study, webinars, seminars, professional organizations, and other internal or external training
ALL ABOUT YOU
EXPERIENCE• Bachelor's degree required, or the equivalent experience in banking or financial operations, payments industry, risk management or compliance related field • One to three years' transaction monitoring or data analysis experience required• Strong understanding of AML, BSA, USA PATRIOT Act and OFAC controls and requirements• ACAMS Certification preferred
KNOWLEDGE/TECHNICAL SKILLS• Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge required• Understanding of basic coding concepts and methodologies to extract, clean, manipulate and summarize data• Understanding of Structure Query Language (SQL) or similar programming languages, including modifying existing SQL scripts to extract data pertaining to a specific investigation• Demonstrated ability to analyze large, complex data sets; use external resources to arrive at conclusions; and creatively identify trends in data
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Ability to:• Swiftly adapt to changing global AML trends, priorities and typologies while working through different data sets• Consistently produce high quality, accurate, detailed reports according to requirements. Clearly explain and defend conclusions verbally and visually• Demonstrate a high degree of self-motivation, independence, organization, time management, and attention to detail• Multi-task while consistently meeting deadlines
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.