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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.\nTitle and Summary\nAML Compliance Operations ManagerOverviewMTS Compliance Operations is looking for one (1) AML Compliance Operations Manager for Multi-Products to join our dynamic team and ensure the company and the organizations we support adhere and remain compliant to all relevant anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing regulations.\nIn this role, you will leverage your expertise in managing teams engaged in Onboarding, Sanctions Screening and Transactions Monitoring processes to help eliminate or mitigate risks associated with establishing and maintaining relationships with sanctioned/prohibited parties or those with adverse media alerts. This includes operating/implementing as a leader sanctions screening and transactions monitoring programs to prevent sanctioned individuals/entities as well as those that have been internally identified/designated to be prohibited to establish or continue relationship with Mastercard.\nThe role will also involve analyzing parties/customers identified to be engaged in high-risk/suspicious activities, conducting thorough investigations, and escalating the same to appropriate internal teams. The ideal candidate is passionate about financial crime detection and investigation, agile, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an innovative mindset.\nThe Role\nManage, train, and mentor a team of analysts and ensure productivity, adherence, and efficiency in handling onboarding, sanctions and transaction monitoring alerts and case management.\nOversee the end-to-end onboarding, sanctions screening and transactions monitoring programs for the different products supported by the organization.\nHandle escalations and complex issues and investigations and ensuring timely and accurate resolution.\nTogether with other leaders, maintain governance of relevant onboarding, screening and transaction monitoring systems, ensure data integrity relative to the programs being implemented and operated, and drive continuous process improvements.\nEnsure adherence to global sanctions requirements, Mastercard AML/CFT policies, and relevant local/jurisdictional rules and regulations.\nPrepare and deliver reports and escalate high-risk issues to senior management.\nCollaborate with business units, legal, and compliance teams to implement effective controls.\nAll about You:\nExtensive financial crime compliance experience, focused on sanctions and transactions monitoring.\nDeep knowledge of global sanctions regulations and risk-based approaches.\nStrong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.\nAnalytical abilities to assess risks and develop compliance strategies.\nExperience with onboarding/sanctions screening and transaction monitoring tools and technologies.\nUsing Mastercard tools and systems, verify identities of parties with whom Mastercard is establishing or has established a relationship as a customer/partner, customer service providers, or those using the Mastercard network under the relevant products and services (hereafter, collectively referred to as “Parties”), who might be engaged in high-risk activities, may be part or eventually be a part of sanctions and/or internal lists or may have been subject of or referenced in adverse media alerts potentially impacting the risk exposure of Mastercard;\nDetermine potential sanctions/internal lists or adverse media alerts match through data/information analysis, historical transaction records, or collection of additional information;\nPerform research on Parties subject of screening or review to identify and analyze sanctions nexus;\nWork closely with other internal stakeholders in the process of obtaining additional KYC documentation of Parties being screened/investigated to ensure adherence to policies, procedures and regulatory obligations and when needed, liaise with customers/clients to gather KYC documentation/information;\nLiaise with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) or such other unit/department within Mastercard, on investigative findings, as needed;\nReview and analyze system-generated alerts as well as escalated alerts from other stakeholders involving any onboarding Parties;\nProvide support to training initiatives;\nMaintain detailed records of compliance activities and investigations; and\nPrepare and present reports on key metrics to leadership/management.\nAll About You\nThe ideal candidate for this Manager role is an experienced and strong leader, highly analytical and detail-oriented professional with a bachelor’s degree in business, finance, management or other related fields;\nAdvanced level of experience in financial and other related services performing AML/CFT and/or financial crimes investigation-related roles or tasks;\nSound leadership, interpersonal skills with an analytical mind in assessing risks and developing compliance strategies for the business;\nIdeally possessing 3 years of direct people leadership experience in managing a lean team in a fast-moving global environment.\nExcellent time-management skills with the ability to critically prioritize tasks effectively under pressure to meet strict deadlines.\nTechnologically proficient and adept in using AML monitoring systems and related software and has excellent analytical and investigative skills;\nHighly analytical and self-motivated, adept at working on multiple and varied tasks, and capable of working collaboratively with employees from different levels of the organization;\nThe ideal candidate should also excel in written and verbal communication, demonstrating strong problem-solving abilities and a keen eye for detail;\nKnown for integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality, proactive, capable of working independently, and thrive in team environments;\nA comprehensive understanding of financial products and transaction processes, combined with a commitment to continuous learning to adopt quickly to evolving compliance, regulatory and business landscapes are ideal qualities for the candidate for this role; and\n• Holder of certification(s) in Transactions Monitoring (CTMA), KYC (CKYC) or AML (CAMS) or their equivalent, are preferred. Basic knowledge of Payments and/or Settlement Systems will also be given preference.\nCorporate Security Responsibility\nAll 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:\nAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;\n\nEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;\n\nReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and\n\nComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7315,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Fraud Detection","RegTech, AML & Compliance","Cards & Card Issuing","Payment Processing & Gateways"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T07:02:09Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":89,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.891,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-24T06:02:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-aml-compliance-operations-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-aml-compliance-operations-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-24T06:24:54Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9267,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":252},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=252"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmastercard-aml-compliance-operations-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmastercard-aml-compliance-operations-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmastercard-aml-compliance-operations-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/mastercard-aml-compliance-operations-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmastercard-aml-compliance-operations-manager"}]}