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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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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

Overview:

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.

The Finance Business Partner function manages all aspects of management reporting encompassing budgeting and forecasting, strategic and customer planning. This includes the management and execution of the corporate reporting and planning requirements.

About Business Finance Center (BFC)

BFC provides Finance expertise to the organization by compiling and analysing metrics, identifying trends and problems, communicating information to relevant groups and recommending actions to improve financial performance. It works with business directly drive planning efforts, identify business drivers, and develop the bottom-up budget and forecast. It also helps business in standard, ad hoc reporting, and key performance indicators (KPIs) each period for the business and finance management and also helping to provide decision support to business teams as needed. We are a strong 100+ member team (finance professionals) based out of Gurgaon, India and now expanding into Bogota, Colombia

Role

• Budgeting and forecasting short/long-term plans, as well as preparing and analyzing internal financial reports and communicating results of operations to the Technology Operations division

• Activities include managing risks and opportunities, monitoring the organization's expenses while considering macro-economic factors

• Supports the Technology division with financial and budget related needs; conducts financial analysis for divisional leadership

• Prepares monthly reporting and analysis of financial results and communicates to divisional management, including oversight of opportunities and risks related to financial plan

• Demonstrate appropriate understanding / working knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls, and apply them

• Prepare financial ad-hoc reporting and analysis demonstrating insightful use of financial analysis techniques, tools, and concepts, to provide practical counsel to divisional partners and management in order to drive business results

• Support various financial business cases, models, and standard templates ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review

• Proactively research and resolve financial inquiries and issues for Technology division

• Performs the annual target and budget process by issuing guidelines, analyzing performance, producing key management reporting, consolidating information and tracking changes

• Participate in Technology consolidation activities including coordinating transfers and providing support between various finance functions to align on strategic financial initiatives

• Support service owners in understanding Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), key drivers, and unit costs; Partners with finance peers in managing TCO improvements and reporting for horizontal services

All About you:

• Educational qualification – CA or Post Graduation in Finance or MBA Finance

• Experience in financial roles with advanced knowledge and experience with all phases of financial planning and management

• Good knowledge of Business Intelligence tools and experience with financial systems/applications (e.g. Hyperion and Oracle)

• Good understanding of reporting, forecasting and budgeting techniques.

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Self-motivated with a proven track record of delivering success while operating in a team environment.

• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency and accuracy

• Ability to manage multiple activities of different nature in a condensed timeframe

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Language - Fluent English Speaker

• Strong strategic thinking and business understanding

• Strong relationship management and networking skills

• High intellect with good commercial acumen and a creative approach to problem solving

• Ambitious, highly driven and motivated

• Maturity to challenge ideas and balance opportunities and threats

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.