Senior Analyst, 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

Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance

Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance – Sanctions Monitoring

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

The Global Compliance team at Mastercard maintains robust programs to meet regulatory obligations and uphold Mastercard’s high standards of integrity. This role sits within the Compliance Innovation & Transformation team, focused on enhancing sanctions monitoring processes, controls, and data-driven insights.

We are seeking a Senior Analyst to join the team in India. This role will support critical sanctions monitoring activities including OFAC designation analytics, merchant and customer monitoring, Bridger alert review, India on-soil data obligations, and regulatory reporting. The role requires strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to work across large data sets, systems, and stakeholders while ensuring accurate and timely execution.

Role

- Manage OFAC designation merchant and customer analytics, including identification and assessment of potential sanctions-related exposure across transaction, merchant, and geographic data.

- Perform second line compliance review of escalations and determine appropriate disposition, escalation, or follow-up action.

- Manage weekly merchant blocking monitoring and reporting across platforms, identifying issues and coordinating remediation with stakeholders.

- Disposition screening alerts (including Bridger and SSI), ensuring consistent documentation and clear rationale for decisions.

- Manage OFAC rejected reporting submissions for India, including data preparation, validation, and stakeholder coordination.

- Manage Request for Information (RFI) processes for merchant monitoring, including outreach, tracking, and documentation of responses.

- Support India on-soil data obligations, including data review, storage, and handling requirements for sanctions-related processes.

All About You

- 3–5 years of experience in sanctions, financial crime compliance, transaction monitoring, or screening operations.

- Strong understanding of OFAC sanctions requirements and practical experience with alert dispositioning and escalation handling.

- Experience working with screening tools such as Bridger (or similar platforms) and reviewing merchant, customer, or transaction screening data.

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with large data sets and interpret results across multiple systems and sources.

- Highly detail-oriented with the ability to clearly document rationale, identify potential matches, and escalate appropriately.

- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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 come 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.

- 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.