Description
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
Senior Analyst; 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:
• Responsible for a broad range of finance related responsibilities and acts as a finance generalist for Eastern Europe Division
• Activities include short/long-term planning, providing insights and expertise on key drivers, risks and opportunities, deals, pricing and ensuring robust control environment
Responsibilities:
• Manages all aspects of financial planning and forecasting from a country, product and customer perspective for the clusters.
• Provides financial insights to leadership and supports driving and execution of strategy by applying an understanding of key drivers, pricing and products; highlights areas of risks & opportunities and makes recommendations on resolutions.
• Manages aspects of month end financial close (revenue recognition, expense) in partnership with the business, the Controller and Global Business Shared Service teams.
• Embodies the Leading Beyond Finance initiative by running and maintaining business models to analyze performance and business opportunities (e.g. MIS, KPIs, Cluster business review decks).
• 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]
• Partner with the businesses in supporting strategic growth plans both near and long term, assisting with business case modeling and providing thought leadership
• Proactively drives and implements continuous process improvement activities
• Supports VP, EE Finance Business Partner in maintaining a strong control environment.
Experiences:
• Bachelor's degree in finance or related discipline
• The ideal candidate is fast-paced, highly analytical and detail-oriented who demonstrates a sense of urgency, ownership, knowledge and experience with all phases of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting supporting their business partners,
• Comfortable with occasional ambiguity but able to make calculated decisions
Experience operating in a diverse, multi-functional finance group across time zones.,
• Demonstrates the ability to build internal and external business partnerships; begins to develop key relationships to understand the needs and objectives of stakeholders,
• Experience reviewing and analyzing financial reporting and analysis of results (e.g. monthly financial results, quarterly forecasting, annual budgets)
• Experienced with financial systems and applications (e.g. Hyperion, Oracle)
• Experience resolving basic issues in a timely and efficient manner; begins to gain exposure to the resolution of complex issues
• Independent worker & thinker with the ability to follow up on time sensitive issues
• A team player with the ability to communicate effectively and develop solid working relationships across multiple levels and organizational boundaries is required.
Language:
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
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.
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