Director, Finance Business Partner

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Title and Summary

Director, Finance Business Partner

Overview
• A Finance Director position within North America Regional Customer Planning team, which supports & partners with the EVP (and their team) for a key US and Global account. Responsible for ensuring timely execution of Planning, Reporting, and Business Partnering responsibilities. This position will report directly to the VP, Finance Business Partner for Customer Planning.

Role
• Drive the customer planning process and all related activities across the account team
• Manage/coordinate the budgeting, forecasting, planning, and monitoring needs for the account lead and team. Responsible for the production of financial reporting of all business activity, revenue streams, budget utilization and cost allocations
• Manage all financial inputs for objective setting, SIP targeting and compensation measurements as part of annual business planning process
• Participate in the creation, review and approval of business development proposals to ensure the sustainable, profitable growth of the Customer P&L. Activities include:
o The development/review of business cases and financial models
o Provide training and consultation to account team on business case and financial model best practices
o Perform monitoring and conduct periodic audits of performance results for all active business agreements
o Participate in finalizing business contracts
o Direct customer interaction as required
• Responsible for all monthly/quarterly reporting deliverables: including performance tracking against plans, quarterly reviews, incentive variance analysis, revenue analysis, risk and opportunities analysis, pending deals updates, track performance against key joint and strategic initiatives, etc. as well as the monitoring (periodic audits) of performance results for all active business agreements
• Provide team measurements, analytics and reporting to US Finance, Account team and other MC constituents as appropriate
• Motivate, inspire, coach, and develop staff and ensure team is providing needed financial support to account team

All About You
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or related discipline
• Demonstrated finance and/or general management experience preferably with a solid understanding of the payments industry
• Capability to provide a balanced perspective from both a customer/CAM perspective and a finance organization perspective
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills; highly proficient using MS Excel
• Strategic planning experience
• Negotiation capabilities
• Possess strong relationship management skills:
o Internal advocate for account team and customer to ensure that the organization is responsive to needs of customer
o Proactively builds and develops key relationships
o Understands the diverse needs and objectives of various stakeholders
• Demonstrated understanding of key business fundamentals including political, financial, business and regulatory environments of the customer organization; as well as drivers of financial health of customers and Mastercard

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