Leads finance business partnering for a technology business unit, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial reporting, opportunity assessment, deal and contract management, pricing, product P&L management, and technology cost allocation. Advises leadership on risks and investments, ensures risk-management compliance, improves processes, and manages and develops a finance team.
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 [email protected] 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:
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 [email protected] 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.
Mastercard Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Mastercard Chicago, IL Office
8755 W Higgins Rd, Chicago, IL, United States
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