Manager, Legal Compliance

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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 Manager, Legal Compliance Who is Mastercard: Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Financial Crimes Compliance to help protect the integrity of our network and support the continued execution and enhancement of our anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance program. In this role, you will help identify, assess, and mitigate financial crime risks across customer activity, products, services, geographies, and regional initiatives. You will collaborate across business, legal, compliance, product, regional, and customer-facing teams to provide practical AML and sanctions guidance, support sound risk-based decision-making, and help advance Mastercard’s commitment to doing business responsibly. This position is ideal for a thoughtful risk taker and change maker who brings analytical rigor, strong judgment, collaboration, and the ability to translate complex data and risk issues into clear, actionable insights. Role • Support regional AML and sanctions standards, controls, procedures, and governance processes designed to meet Mastercard requirements and applicable regulatory obligations. • Plan, coordinate, execute, and ensure timely completion of enhanced due diligence reviews, remediation tracking, validation, and customer follow-up. • Lead and support data-driven AML initiatives, including transaction monitoring analysis, alert dispositioning, system tuning, trend analysis, data integrity reviews, exception reporting, and metrics tracking. • Analyze customer, product, geography, transaction, and network activity data to support risk assessments, identify emerging risks, respond to adverse media alerts, and recommend control enhancements. • Coordinate escalations, investigations, inquiries, and reviews of unusual or potentially suspicious activity, including preparation of clear analysis, recommendations, and supporting documentation. • Review internal and external inquiries to assess AML risks and identify Customers with concerning compliance controls. • Conduct AdHoc investigations by querying data warehouse data, analyzing that data to identify patterns of potentially suspicious activity, formulating a hypothesis on the activity identified for further review and validation by stakeholders and Customers. • Respond to AML, sanctions, and financial crime-related requests from regulators, law enforcement, internal stakeholders, and other authorized parties, particularly in markets with local regulatory exposure. • Support customer, service provider, and market engagement reviews, including site visits, third-party coordination, remediation activit

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