Director, 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

Director, Finance Business Partner

Director, Finance Business Partner
Mastercard’s Operations and Technology (O&T) business unit operates the company’s global payments processing infrastructure and development. O&T uses its expertise to make payments safe, simple and smart.
Finance Business Partners within O&T work with closely technology leaders and their teams to create financial plans, manage financial performance and evaluate investment opportunities. The Finance Business Partner role provides an excellent platform for career development. The successful candidate will gain experience in managing and optimizing investments that enable global payments.

Overview
• Responsible for a broad range of finance related responsibilities and acts as a finance generalist for a technology business unit
• Activities include short/long-term planning, deal management, contract management, pricing and product management

Responsibilities
• Drives aspects of financial reporting related needs and requirements (e.g., budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, target setting) for a designated area within a technology business segment (products, issuers, etc.)
• Provides financial insights to leadership, leveraging an advanced understanding of budgeting, long range planning and forecasting at detailed levels
• Partners with regions, business units, business partners and/or corporate to assist in developing, analyzing and validating new business opportunities.
• Performs new opportunity assessments by providing counsel to the business around ongoing deals and Customer Business Agreements [CBA]
• Executes large, complex agreements, leveraging subject matter expertise [SME] for their designated area (e.g., financial & data technology tools)
• Applies the Technology Business Management [TBM] framework to allocate technology costs and enable product P&L management
• Assists with strategy and process improvements to ensure alignment with market objectives; proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements
• Ensures compliance with Enterprise Risk Management [ERM] policies, may perform control testing
• Manages a team, conducts goal setting and performance appraisal processes, identifies and coaches top talent within own team

Experiences
• Track record building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships in order to understand the needs and objectives of stakeholders
• Successfully oversees the completion of global, complex management reporting (e.g.. monthly financial results, quarterly forecasting, annual budgets)
• Experience 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
• Extensive experience setting strategy for process improvement initiatives along with developing procedures for implementation
• Demonstrated successful oversight of the management and resolution of high-risk issues to ensure completeness and efficiency
• Successfully embodies change management; executes corporate cultural initiatives, enhancing the support of an ever-evolving environment to fulfill corporate goals and objectives

Must be comfortable working with ambiguous processes in a fluid environment
Must be highly proficient using MS suite of products Excel/Office/PowerPoint and enterprise ERP/Planning systems
Proficiency using Power BI, Power Automate, or low code tools a plus
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a financial analysis role
Advanced degree (MBA, Master’s) or professional certification (CMA, CPA) a plus
Must be able to adhere to the company’s hybrid in office work policy

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment 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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.