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
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:
The Security Solutions Organization team is responsible for Mastercard’s safety and security related products which protect the integrity of the electronic payment system, while ensuring payments are convenient yet secure. The products are primarily focused on authentication, fraud prevention, risk mitigation and dispute resolution across all payment channels as well as all stakeholders; issuers, acquirers, merchants, processors and consumers.
Working as a key member of the Security Solutions Finance team within the Mastercard Services business unit there is now an opportunity for an enthusiastic and well-motivated finance professional to join the team as a key business partner!
At MasterCard the Security Solutions (SSO) finance team:
• Partners with business unit divisions to help achieve financial targets and objectives through thought leadership.
• Supports product owners by investigating, reporting on, and mitigating any variance in revenue and expenses.
• Provides business unit support for financial reporting, planning and analysis.
The Role:
The Manager will be responsible for:
• Partnering with the individuals across the Enablement, Fraud and Payment Resiliency businesses on a variety of tasks.
• Support various financial business cases, models, and standard templates ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review
• Budgeting and forecasting short/long-term plans, as well as preparing and analyzing internal financial reports and communicating results to the product owners of the division
• Assist the teams to identify Revenue opportunities and monitor Expenses related to the financial plan.
• Prepares monthly reporting and analysis of financial results and communicates to divisional management.
• Demonstrate appropriate understanding / working knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls and apply them.
• Prepare ad-hoc reporting and analysis demonstrating insightful use of financial analysis techniques, tools, and concepts, to provide practical counsel to divisional partners and management to drive business results
• Proactively research and resolve financial inquiries and issues for Security Solutions (SSO) division
• Performs the annual target and budget process by issuing guidelines, analyzing performance, producing key management reporting, consolidating information and tracking changes
All About You:
The ideal candidate for this position should have:
• Bachelor’s degree with a major in Business, Finance, or Accounting is preferred
• Strong interpersonal, communication and relationship management skills, with ability to partner with and influence others.
• Prior experience in Business Partnering, Financial Planning & Analysis, or related Finance field.
• Excellent financial/analytical and problem-solving skills. Highly proficient using MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of financial reporting systems and experience with combining and/or consolidating environments including multiple data sources.
• Possess situational awareness to understand needs of various stakeholders across business, finance, and other cross-functional and external teams.
• Work and think independently. Ability to navigate unfamiliar situations, provide narrative and rationale for financial analysis.
• Strong sense of urgency; excels in a deadline driven work environment.
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
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.