Analyst, Legal Compliance

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

Analyst, 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
We are seeking a KYC Analyst to ensure that complex and higher-risk customers are thoroughly understood, verified, and appropriately decisioned. This role involves researching and understanding various considerations, including complex ownership structures, negative news, sanctions, and politically exposed persons (PEPs). The KYC Analyst will ensure that customer files are accurate, complete, and contain the necessary research and analysis to support informed decisions regarding complex and higher-risk customers.

Role
Review escalations from Junior Analysts – KYC for new and existing customers, ensuring that escalated items are thoroughly reviewed, understood, and decisioned in accordance with company policies, procedures, and risk tolerance.

Conduct detailed research and analysis into risk factors associated with new and existing customer relationships, ensuring that appropriate evidence is collected and documented to support findings and decisions.

Create and maintain customer summaries that provide a succinct view and understanding of customer relationships, including the risks they represent to the company, any committee decisions, and conditional approvals.

Verify the identities and locations of more complex or higher-risk individuals and entities related to the customer relationship.

Screen individuals and entities against applicable lists to identify potential negative news, sanctions considerations, and politically exposed persons (PEPs) for further review and understanding.

Research and understand complex ownership structures to identify the true beneficial ownership of corporate entities.

Review and verify customer-stated and actual activity to ensure it aligns with expected activity.

Complete, review, and approve the customer risk assessment template, ensuring that the risk accurately represents the research, analysis, and verification of the customer.

Ensure that supporting documentation for higher-risk or more complex considerations is collected, valid (not expired), and properly stored within the customer file.

Request any missing or additional required information from the business, operations department, and customers to support the onboarding and maintenance processes.

Escalate high-risk customers and any other customers exhibiting unresolved red flags, complex customer relationships, or other risks to the Team Lead – Customer Onboarding & Maintenance for a more in-depth review and decision.

Present higher-risk or more complex customer relationships to management or via committee to facilitate understanding and decision-making requirements.

All About You
• A degree or higher, preferably in Finance, Business Administration or
Accounting.
• Up to 3 years experience in a related compliance field
• Up to 2 years of experience in financial services

Required Skills
• Good practical knowledge of KYC/AML.
• Good Practical knowledge of the Financial Services sector, preferably
remittance or payment services.
• Good practical knowledge of AML requirements, preferably around customer
identification.
• Attention to detail and ability to identify and solve issues effectively and on
time.
• Inquisitive mindset and a desire to research and understand things before
making a decision.
• Good MS Office Skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Good internet search engine skills.
• Good report-writing skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Must speak and write proficiently in English.

As Mastercard is a global company, we sometimes have team members from outside of the location listed on this posting that are reviewing submitted applications. Please attach a copy of your resume in English to expedite the screening process.

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.