Director, Financial Crimes Solutions Product Management | London, UK

Mastercard, Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Director for Financial Crimes Solutions Product Management. This role emphasizes driving product strategy for AML solutions, overseeing innovation, and collaborating with global teams to minimize financial crimes. The ideal candidate should bring a wealth of experience in payments and a passion for enhancing safety in the financial ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Experience in the Payments ecosystem, especially in Money Laundering detection.
• Experience managing financial crimes products for financial institutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive the delivery of product roadmaps for AML solutions.
• Leverage product management framework and conduct data analysis.
• Develop business cases and go-to-market plans for new products.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Leadership

Job description

Director, Financial Crimes Solutions Product Management

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, Financial Crimes Solutions Product Management

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:
Mastercard's Financial Crime Solutions team is looking for a Director, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Solutions Product Management, to drive the delivery of our product roadmaps. The ideal candidate is passionate about helping our customers to reduce financial crime, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

Financial Crime Solutions (FCS) is a cross-functional team under Fraud & Resiliency within the Services division of Mastercard, overseeing solutions dedicated to safeguarding businesses and consumers from various financial crimes. Made up of product management, data science, operations, and technology partners, we have launched solutions that detect and prevent financial crime, utilizing advanced technologies, data analysis techniques, and industry best practices to identify suspicious patterns, behaviors, and transactions on a global scale.

Role:

• Report to the VP, AML Solutions Product Manager and work closely with global and regional leads to drive product strategy, strategic development, and launch of new products within AML Solutions.
• Act as a subject matter expert, outline business requirements, and lead the data science, CX, and development teams through the definition and launch of new products for our customers and in support of AML solutions objectives.
• Leverage Mastercard's product management framework to manage the delivery of ongoing innovation and enhancements to Financial Crime Solutions products from concept to commercialization.
• Develop business cases, go-to-market plans, and conduct data analysis for new product concepts and framing for AML Solutions.
• Assess and develop expansion plans with clear value to address key customers and market needs.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer behavior and market trends by analyzing relevant data to inform product strategies and forecasting.
• Understand the Software Development Lifecycle and surface any barriers or obstacles to deliver new product opportunities on time and budget.

All about you:

We are looking for a proficient agile person with interest and passion for payments and/or fintech, banking, financial services, and anti-money laundering.

• Experience in the Payments ecosystem, especially in Money Laundering detection, is an advantage.
• Experience managing financial crimes products for financial institutions either on the issuing or acquiring space.
• Experience with Machine Learning, working closely with Data Science teams.
• Incorporate and understanding of financial crime and the broader payments ecosystem into ongoing product management (e.g., regulatory, legal, technology, competitive, technology environment, etc.).
• Have curiosity, agility, creativity, and a team player attitude.
• Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate product management excellence and share best practices.
• Be eager to learn, develop, and get involved, be ready to roll up your sleeves.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to identify key issues, structure analysis, synthesize large amounts of data, and provide recommendations effectively.
• Enjoy working and building relationships in a multicultural matrix organization.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills to clearly articulate and simplify complex topics.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning by leveraging the learning & development curriculum to augment existing knowledge, skills, and experiences.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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.