Director, 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

Director, 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

Our Arcus bill payment business is looking for a Director, Legal Compliance to provide support for the development, implementation and ongoing operation of compliance programs across its product lines, focussing primarily on Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions programs. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with multiple business areas including Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Risk, Privacy and Product.
Role
The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Managing Arcus’ AML & Sanctions Compliance programs across its product lines.
• Ensuring procedures comply with local regulatory requirements and enterprise policies and procedures.
• Ensuring appropriate technology tools are implemented to support required AML & sanctions controls.
• Leading the Compliance function to ensure the business makes informed risk-based decision regarding new opportunities, markets, local initiatives and product and service offerings and that appopriate compliance processes and controls are developed, documented and implemented.
• Training management and relevant employees on compliance policies and procedures.
• Developing relationships and working cross functionally to identify, assess and mitigate potential AML & sanctions risks.
• Acting as an escalation point for compliance queries from other business areas, providing guidance and acting as a role model for proper conduct for other business areas.
• Reviewing and assessing new products to assess AML & sanctions risks and ensure appropriate compliance controls are implemented.
• Production of reporting for internal stakeholders, including senior management.
• Assessing the impact of changes to relevant reglations and industry guidance on existing policies and procedures, communicating required changes to relevant business areas and ensuring any necessary changes are implemented as required.

All About You

• Fluent in Spanish and English.
• Strong understanding of AML and sanctions regulations.
• Proven compliance experience in financial services.
• Experience executing compliance programs, including design, implementation and oversight of controls
• Self-starter who is flexible and able to work in a matrixed environment.
• Sound judgement with ability to build rapport at all levels, and in all business units.
• Ability to interpret regulations and guidance in order to assess the impact and develop practical operational procedures to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage key stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks to completion on time and to deal with rapid changes of priority.
• Analytical and detail focused with the ability to identify anomalies, trends and make recommendations.
• Ability to deal with sensitive and confidential information.


Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.