Overview
In this role you will lead Compliance governance for Mastercard Transaction Services, overseeing the new product intake across fiat and digital products. You’ll advise on financial crime risks throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring risk assessments and controls are in place before launch. You will collaborate with Product, Legal, Compliance, Technology and MLRO teams to embed compliant design and governance. This is a chance to shape how new payments offerings are introduced responsibly and securely at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead compliance governance for new product intake across fiat and digital products
- Assess products to identify AML, sanctions, fraud and other financial crime risks
- Maintain financial crime risk assessments and contribute to enterprise risk and control assessments
- Define and maintain the new product intake governance framework and controls
- Oversee pre- and post-implementation compliance requirements with Technology and Ops teams
- Ensure product-related compliance is reflected across policies, systems and controls
- Provide governance reporting to MTS committees and forums
- Maintain New Product Intake Register with reviews, approvals and exceptions
- Identify and remediate gaps from assessments and events to strengthen intake
- Coordinate compliance across Product, Legal, Finance, Regulatory Compliance and Global Compliance teams
- Provide governance for digital asset and crypto product intake (VASPs, crypto cards, stablecoins, etc.)
Key requirements
- Compliance experience in international payments, transactional banking, regulated fintech or global financial services
- Proven ability to implement financial crime controls in new product intake or approval processes
- Strong AML, KYC, sanctions, fraud, and transaction monitoring knowledge
- Good project management skills
- Understand impact of new products on Compliance operations, technology, systems and controls
- Experience with card payments, digital commerce, cross-border payments and blockchain analytics
- Knowledge of crypto compliance and VASP risks in regulated fintech or crypto settings
- Familiarity with automated compliance systems and AI in Compliance is a plus
- Experience in process mapping, framework development, control design and scalable solutions
- Proven ability to operate in a complex global matrix with multiple jurisdictions
- Strong communication and influencing skills with risk-based recommendations
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal and organizational skills
- Holder of a globally recognised Financial Crime Compliance qualification
- Proficient in PowerPoint, Excel and Visio
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Problem-solving
- Cross-functional collaboration
- AML systems and sanctions screening
- KYC processes
- Fraud monitoring and investigation
Director Legal Compliance in London employer: MasterCard
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