Director, Regulatory 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, Regulatory Compliance

Overview
Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments business, connecting cardholders, customers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide. 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.

Mastercard has been rapidly expanding its wide range of payment solutions by increasing worldwide connectivity in the account-to-account space, enhancing compliance capabilities and offering more robust foreign exchange tools.

Mastercard is seeking an experienced regulatory compliance professional to join our Global Regulatory team to lead the Americas regulatory compliance program for our cross-border account-to-account business.

This position is integral to a Mastercard strategic initiative and will report to the Senior Managing Counsel, Regulatory. The ideal candidate is a compliance champion and proven leader with deep experience in building and supporting compliance management programs and a background in payments and financial technology.

Role

The Director, Regulatory Compliance will lead a team charged with executing the regulatory compliance strategy for our account-to-account cross-border activity in the Americas to ensure compliance with money transmission and other payment services regulations.

The role will be responsible for developing and implementing enhancements to the global regulatory compliance program, and will require strong leadership, collaboration and execution to ensure regulatory compliance across the business.

Key Activities Include

• Lead the development and execution of global regulatory strategy for cross-border account-to-account business
• Manage global team of regulatory compliance professionals to meet local regulatory compliance requirements
• Oversee quality assurance and testing process for regulatory compliance functions
• Design and implement parameters for key risk indicators for escalation to senior management
• Partner closely with AML Compliance, Finance, and other business units to meet regulatory compliance obligations
• Manage ongoing supervision and examinations
• Enhance and maintain regulatory compliance risk assessments
• Maintain strong industry knowledge of regulations, changes, trends and impacts to the business

All About You

• Proven experience developing and managing regulatory compliance programs for large bank or non-bank financial institution
• Proven success in navigating a multi-national organization and operating effectively within a diverse multicultural organization
• Knowledge of US, Canada, and Mexico payment services regulations and license requirements is preferred, including US state money transmission laws and regulations issued by FinCEN, FINTRAC, CNBV
• Self-starter / motivated to work independently and as an effective team member
• Experience managing regulatory supervision is a must
• Proven success in navigating a multi-national organization and operating effectively within a diverse multicultural organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English a must; Spanish strongly preferred

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more.

Pay Ranges
Miami, Florida: $135,000 - $216,000 USD

Atlanta, Georgia: $135,000 - $216,000 USD

New York City, New York: $162,000 - $259,000 USD