Director Crypto Consulting - SCI0020 London, England
Mastercard
Full Time
London, England
63054 - 65264 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Our Purpose
We work 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. We cultivate a
culture of inclusion
for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Director Crypto Consulting - SCI0020
About Us:At Mastercard, our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force for good in the world and to doing well by doing good. Mastercard relies on our global workforce to help us achieve our goal of building a sustainable, inclusive global economy.
CipherTrace, a Mastercard company creates blockchain intelligence solutions that safeguard the crypto economy by identifying high-risk transactions from darknet vendors, terrorists, and other bad actors who seek to de-stabilize the ecosystem and exploit crypto adopters, financial institutions, and other crypto users.
CipherTrace was named one of the top-two companies in the cryptocurrency forensics by CB Insights in 2019. Our cryptocurrency intelligence solutions are used by the largest exchanges, banks and law enforcement globally to keep criminals and purveyors of fraud off their payment networks.
If leading the way in the new frontier of financial crime inspires you, we want you on our team.
Role:
As the Director of Crypto Consulting, you will be primarily responsible for leading engagements with virtual asset service providers, financial institutions, nonbank financial institutions, and other applicable entities to support a safer virtual asset ecosystem for businesses, consumers, and investors. This role would oversee, scope, and/or execute select regional engagements, but would also support global needs in a similar capacity when needed. Other responsibilities would include conducting internal and external training, developing external-facing materials, participating in conferences/events, supporting pre-client interactions, and contributing to internal regulatory needs. Lastly, this role would oversee the completion of virtual asset service provider risk assessments for entities residing within select regions.
All About You:
You are inspired and excited about driving efforts to fight financial crime and safeguard the crypto economy and have a:
- Post secondary degree in Business, Banking, Economics, or related field
- Sound understanding of blockchain technology, virtual assets, and cryptocurrencies
- Related experience in conducting comprehensive, high quality audits, consultant engagements, and/or regulatory examinations
- Ability to interpret and apply regulatory or legal standards into operational use for financial institutions and virtual asset service providers
- Interest and ability to analyze current and emerging trends involving cryptocurrency and other virtual assets
- A knack for delivering written and verbal reports on consultant engagements, to include briefings to clients, as well as internal departments
- A desire to partner with internal stakeholders and external partners in thinking and acting critically to identify opportunities for collaboration, raise awareness, foster partnerships between virtual asset service providers and traditional financial institutions, and develop best practice standards to mitigate risk within the virtual asset ecosystem.
- Ten or more years’ experience in consulting, auditing, regulatory, and/or related fields, particularly within the financial services industry.
Nice to have:
- Fluency in a second language (eg. Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, etc)
- Crypto/Blockchain training or user experience
- Training on blockchain analytic tool(s)
- Relevant AML, Sanctions, Fraud, Internal Audit, or similar certifications (e.g. Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), etc.)
- Experience transacting with DEXs and/or DeFi protocols
- Ability to easily take technical information (including analytics) and articulate it in an easy-to-understand manner in both written and spoken environments
Work Location:
- Remote position
Travel:
- Up to 40% travel, including domestic and international
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:
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.
