Analyst, Legal Compliance - KYC

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

Analyst, Legal Compliance - KYC

Overview
The Legal Compliance team is looking for an Analyst to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about AML regulation and sanctions, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical and forward thinking.

Role
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Ensure that the onboarding process for customers complies with applicable regulations for Electronic Payments Funds Institutions (IFPEs) in Mexico, through legal analysis, document validation and risk assessment, in line with AML/CFT requirements and local financial regulations.
- Supporting the operation of customer due diligence policies and procedures, including conducting risk assessments and assisting in the management of stakeholders to ensure due diligence is completed as required.
- Assisting in the operation of sanction screening policies and procedures in line with relevant regulations, industry guidance, and company policies.
- Helping to produce compliance policies and maintain departmental procedures.
- Providing support for compliance queries from other business areas, escalating issues to senior team members as necessary.
- Assisting in the review and assessment of new products to evaluate AML & sanctions risks and ensure appropriate compliance controls are implemented.
- Contributing to the production of reporting for internal stakeholders, including senior management.
- Monitoring changes to relevant regulations and industry guidance, communicating required changes to relevant business areas, and supporting the implementation of necessary changes.

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
- Strong understanding of AML, KYC process and sanctions regulations.
- Experience in compliance within the financial services industry.
- Experience analyzing complex corporate structures.
- Ability to interpret regulations and guidance to assist in developing practical operational procedures to ensure ongoing compliance.
- Ability to read and interpret public deeds and corporate legal documents.
- Familiarity with sanctions screening tools and databases.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage key stakeholders.
- Strong organizational and documentations skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks to completion on time and to adapt to rapid changes of priority.
- High attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Analytical and detail-focused with the ability to identify anomalies, trends, and make recommendations.
- Ability to make risk-based decisions.
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
- AML or sanctions certification is preferred.

Application and CV in English are required

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.