Director, Finance Business Partner

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Director, Finance Business Partner

Overview:
• The financial business partner supports Mastercard’s development and engineering organization within the Product and Engineering (P&E) business unit
• P&E Engineering Finance Leader will have program responsibilities for budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, target setting.
• P&E Engineering Finance Leader will drive aspects of day-to-day activities in support of financial reporting, monthly variance, and ad hoc requests.
• P&E Engineering Finance Leader will also develop relationships with divisional business partners, executives, and regions and will provide direction and oversight to work of other finance team members.
• This role will also have a significant role in business case development and analysis for M&A integrations as well as for projects.
• Do you have experience in a business financial planning and analysis role with significant interaction with business partners?
• Are you motivated by the opportunity to drive improvements and changes to existing processes?
• Do you have proven skills in financial analysis and managing financial business cases?

Role:
• Manage all aspects of the day-to-day of programs with business financial functions such as budget and forecast processes and including financial reporting, analysis and achieving spending targets
• Support the business by identifying financial risks and opportunities
• Interact on a regular basis with P&E executives, in a highly visible role
• Review the development of cost models to justify projects, identify savings and improve financial performance
• Provide analysis, modeling, and business case support for your programs to management and their teams, including:
- Project and maintenance labor analysis
- Ad hoc analysis to identify budget & forecast variance drivers
- Collaborate with peer leaders to lead process enhancements to improve efficiency, quality, and timeliness
- M&A integrations
- Provide oversight to and direct work activities of other P&E Engineering finance staff; lead project teams to support process improvement or other ad hoc initiatives
• Manages a team, conducts goal setting and performance appraisal processes, identifies and coaches talent within own team

All About You:
• Background in IT financial management and accounting considered beneficial
• Master’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) is a plus
•Business Financial planning and analysis experience with progressively increasing responsibility
• Able to influence and drive effective decision making
• Must be comfortable working with ambiguous processes in a fluid environment
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact, communicate and navigate effectively within executive P&E and Finance management
• Fluent in English
• Strong analytical skills with ability to work with complex, multi-faceted issues
• Ability to perform successfully in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment and manage multiple priorities and assignments concurrently
• Desired managerial experience supervising staff, leading teams and/or participating on cross-functional teams and initiatives in a key leadership role

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