Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance

Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance

Senior Analyst, Legal Compliance – Sanctions Monitoring

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.