Director, Open Banking, Financial Crime Risk Management

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

Director, Open Banking, Financial Crime Risk Management

Director, Open Banking, Financial Crime Risk Management

Overview
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

Leveraging Mastercard’s global payments network, our account-to-account business provides domestic and cross-border solutions to enable the frictionless future of payments. We help our customers leverage rich messaging functionality and applications to capture business and consumer payment flows both domestically and cross-border; offer solutions to connect, enable, and safeguard the Open Banking ecosystem, and protect banks and their customers from financial crime. All this is supported by account-based data insights and consulting to help our clients optimise their payment strategies across the world. The Open Banking team is looking to expand its product offering on a global basis.

At Mastercard we are committed to the highest standards of ethics and integrity. Ethics and Compliance are at the core of our company values and are essential to both the personal success of every Mastercard employee and to the success of the company. The Director, Open Banking will be responsible for leading, strengthening, extending and sustaining a successful Financial Crime Compliance program for the Open Banking business in the US and supporting the business in its expansion into new markets. The role will provide expert compliance leadership and direction in order to identify and implement best practices in compliance and risk. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with colleagues including, Product, Regulatory Affairs, Legal Counsel, Privacy/Data Usage, Global Ethics and Compliance and Internal Audit.

Role

• Member of the Open Banking Compliance and Risk Function globally.
• Developing the Open Banking anti-financial crime program strategy and operations in the US.
• Providing compliance advisory and subject matter expertise to support business expansion and growth
• Ensuring activities, customers, transactions, and third-party relationships are appropriately, assessed, screened and monitored for financial crime and regulatory compliance risks.
• Strengthening the compliance infrastructure to ensure the business makes informed risk-based decisions regarding new opportunities, markets, local initiatives and product and service offerings and that appropriate compliance processes and controls are developed, documented and implemented.
• Overseeing Compliance Operations and address escalations related to customer onboarding and monitoring activities.
• Driving compliance assurance activities to ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory obligations.
• Producing regular MI for management and other internal stakeholders.
• Acting as an escalation point for compliance queries from other business areas.
• Supporting as required entity risk management control activities, such as RSCA and BRCC forums.
• Developing relationships with product development, business, sales and senior management within Mastercard’s Open Banking business.

Please note that roles within Mastercard evolve with the needs of the business and department. Therefore, the above is a guideline and by no means comprehensive.
Location

This role is based in the US.

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