Manager, Finance Business Partner, Services - Expenses

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, Services - Expenses

Overview:

We are looking for a Finance Manager to help in leading our Finance Business Partnership practice through a period of high growth and expansion. This individual will work across the Entire Finance Team (Accounting and FP&A teams) to provide value-added insight and recommendations to the business and management during its high growth trajectory.

Role:
• Manages aspects of financial and budgeting related needs i.e., month end close, forecasts, annual budget processes
• Partners with the Engineering business to support objective delivery by providing relevant financial analytics, regular reporting and business insights to key stakeholders, while developing robust tracking mechanisms
• Performs the annual target and budget process by issuing guidelines, analyzing performance, producing key management reporting, consolidating information and tracking changes
• Owns the monthly close process delivering analysis of variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals, key business drivers and initiatives. Reviews and provides thoughtful business driven commentary to management teams
• Proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements
• Partner with cross functional teams to drive analyses and make recommendations for improvement
• Demonstrates strong modeling capabilities leveraging automation and data-driven approaches; supports the establishment of consistent frameworks and methodologies to enable global and regional finance business partners
• Ability to sort/mine large sets of data from multiple data sources to identify trends/variances or areas of improvement
• Create ad hoc templates, reports, and analyses for use by managers to evaluate their businesses or key initiatives
• Collect and organize inputs required to maintain financial models or plans, as needed
• Work with the accounting department to ensure accurate monthly accrual entries
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of all pertinent information, including sensitive data
• Reviews and responds promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis.

All About You:
• Sound understanding of Financial Concepts, Forecasts, and Data Modeling
• Experience managing major elements of large, cross-functional projects
• Demonstrated success working with partners across other business units and markets in support of cross-functional programs
• Exposure to delivering presentations and engaging with senior leadership
• Experience building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships to assist with the needs and objectives of stakeholders
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
• Ability to take ownership and lead effort from start to completion
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Successfully resolves complex issues in a timely and efficient manner; adapts to changing business needs and priorities
• Robust understanding and proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Experienced with financial systems and applications; serves as a subject matter expert and mentor to those less experienced (e.g. Hyperion, Oracle, Thinkcell)
• Experience with automation tools (Alteryx, Power BI, etc) a plus

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.