Senior Analyst Blockchain Research SCI0088

Our PurposeWe 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.

Title And Summary

Senior Analyst, Blockchain Research SCI0088

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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.

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.

CipherTrace, a Mastercard company, is a rapidly growing cryptocurrency intelligence and compliance leader. Our team has introduced novel solutions to challenges including sanctions compliance for DeFi and the Crypto Travel Rule. Our mission is to grow the blockchain economy by making crypto safe for users and trusted by governments. CipherTrace operates on a global scale to assist banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, law enforcement agencies, regulators, VASPs, and businesses in preventing fraud, human trafficking, money laundering, and other illicit activity where cryptocurrency is involved.

Overview

As part of the Mastercard Payment & Security Risk Team, we curate and deliver high quality data to a multitude of products. This allows our customers to perform data-driven decision making related to assessing the risk of virtual asset service providers.

Job Title

Senior Analyst, Attribution Research SCI0088Role

As a Senior Analyst, you will use your specialized technical, functional experience and your attention to detail to develop insights, understand, recommendations and reports to give leadership and our clients the actionable information, data, and context they need. Your strong analytical skills and problem-solving mindset will be used for opportunity to enhance our products and overall attribution on the blockchain. Responsible for developing deep intelligence insights by exploring new data sources, building effective queries, and combine information from disparate sources including, intelligence reporting, open-source information, regulatory filings, legal affidavits, blockchain transactional data, blockchain tracing and more. You will validate information to support evidentiary and analytical stands and write assessments for presentation for leadership. As a subject matter expert, you will be heavily relied on for time critical recommendations, briefings for senior decision makers, to share your methodologies and work throughout the attribution investigatory processes and deliver the best support to all external teams and clients.

All About You

• Participate in cutting-edge crypto economic research, attribution design and analysis.
• Ability to uncover unique actionable insights contributing to the data platform and broader understanding of sanctions/terrorist financing risk in the blockchain ecosystem.
• Monitor OFAC & OFSI sanctions lists to correlate data to product.
• Ability to quickly ingest and process current events and their effects on the crypto economic industry and communicate reporting to executive leadership
• Play an integral role in fine tuning collection requirements and execution strategy to maintain data.
• Perform complex research into unique data sets to identify and process (i.e. Defi Protocols)
• Technical background (i.e. Python, SQL, Excel) to create solutions to streamline workflows and effectively process large sets of data.
• Ability to collaborate with Product Management & cross functional teams to establish and deliver use cases specific to research and turn into implementations.
• Determines and designs the most valuable end-product for Defi Protocols specifically for customers (BAU products, reports, blog posts, new products etc)
• Familiarity with cryptocurrency tracing for cluster resolution, identity & mappings.
• Familiarity with cryptography and distributed systems
• Self-Starter with strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Data Science, Network Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics or a related field with relevant research experience and/or identifies as a subject matter expert in all facets of cryptocurrency ecosystem
• You enjoy documentation of processes and establishing story lines, blog posts, and detailed reports inspired by your research findings. Preferred author or shared public work related to data in the blockchain sector.
• Ability to present research findings in a clear & concise manner to customers and executive leadership.
• Experience in contributing to research communities and/or efforts
• Ability to teach & train other OSINT research analysts.
• Previous experience & familiarity with Jira
• Ability to think strategically, with a creative mindset to solve complex problems.
• Enthusiasm and the ability to thrive in an atmosphere of constant change

#cryptoIn the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

Goodland, Kansas: $100,000 - $155,000 USD

O'Fallon, Missouri: $100,000 - $155,000 USD