Manager, Finance Business Partner

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

Manager, Finance Business Partner

Overview:

Job Description Summary
Overview:
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.

Role:
• Responsible for a broad range of finance related responsibilities and acts as a finance generalist for Services in North America
• Activities include short / long-term planning, contract management, pricing, and product management
• Drives aspects of financial reporting related needs and requirements for the Services unit in North America (e.g.. budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, target setting)
• Provides financial insights to leadership, leveraging an advanced understanding of budgeting and forecasting at detailed levels; assists in creating the quarterly review and CEO deck
• Embodies the LBF initiative by partnering with regions, business units, business partners and/or corporate to assist in developing, analyzing and validating new business opportunities
• Supports business partners to ensure alignment with targets; performs variance analysis to deliver and articulate arguments in an effective manner
• Assists with strategy and process improvements related to budgeting, forecasting, systems and other key areas to ensure alignment with market objectives; proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements
• Ensures compliance with ERM policies and committees by managing internal audits and SOX testing; fosters a strong control environment to mitigate risks

All About You:
• University degree in a financial or related field
• Extensive experience in building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships in order to assist with the needs and objectives of stakeholders
• Experience in leading the aspects of the management reporting (e.g., monthly financial results, quarterly forecasting, annual budgets)
• Experience in consulting and providing advice and feedback to the business on risk and opportunity considerations, leveraging advanced analytical techniques as well as outside trends and events
• Experience in financial systems and applications; serves as a resource to those less experienced (e.g., Hyperion, Oracle)
• Experience in identifying and implementing process improvement activities; makes recommendations to further improve procedures
• Successfully resolves complex issues in a timely and efficient manner
• Successfully embodies change management; executes corporate cultural initiatives, enhancing the support of an ever-evolving environment to fulfill corporate goals and objectives

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.