Senior Analyst, Finance Business Partner

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

Senior Analyst, Finance Business PartnerSenior 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 analyzing 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 Bogota, Colombia
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. Job Title: Senior Analyst, Finance Business Partner (Marketing Services– Global Services) Role Overview:
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The Marketing Services Finance team is responsible for end-to-end financial stewardship for the respective services line.
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This role is primarily responsible for supporting the Global Marketing Services Finance Business Partners. Building up to participating in and eventually leading direct support of the business. Additionally, opportunities will exist to take on additional analysis and projects supporting the broader CAE Services Finance team.
Responsibilities
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Creation of monthly reporting package for business leads, collating inputs from respective finance leads for Regions
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Manage aspects of month end financial close (revenue recognition, expense) in partnership with the business, the Controllers and Global Business Shared Service (GBSC) teams.
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Supporting monthly close including manual revenue recognition, accruals
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Prepare monthly adjustments to reporting dashboard (DASH) for revenue recognized outside of SFDC
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Track COGS, 3P cost / Fulfilment ratio across deals/regions, ensuring correct revenue recognition and deal margins.
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Conduct monthly close reviewing detailed revenue and expense accounts vs forecast; including preparing variance explanations vs forecast/budget each month
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive process improvements to enhance financial performance and support in maintaining a strong control environment.
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Partner with business to address all financial needs including tracking of performance and insuring data integrity of reporting.
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Support development and execution of strategic initiatives for the business.
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Run point for ad hoc requests from business teams and collaborate to improve understanding of financial processes (billing, vendor management) within the team
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Driving automation of BAU reports
Qualification and Skills
• Educational qualification – A Bachelor’s degree with a major in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration (MBA), CA.
• Previous experience in Finance roles is required.
• An ideal candidate for this role is a highly analytical and fast-paced professional with advanced knowledge in financial planning and management, strong business acumen, expertise in Business Intelligence tools and financial systems like Hyperion and Oracle, proficient in using Microsoft Office (Excel/PowerPoint)
• Experience identifying and implementing process improvement activities; makes recommendations to further improve procedures.
• Experience with Advanced Excel, Power BI and Alteryx is a plus.
• A team-player with the ability to communicate effectively and develop solid working relationships across multiple levels and organizational boundaries.
• Initiative-taking with a proven record of delivering success while operating in a team environment.
• Maturity to challenge ideas and balance opportunities and threats
Key Competencies
• Attention to Detail: Strong focus on accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring high-quality financial analysis and reporting.
• Collaboration: Strong teamwork and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to think critically and develop strategies to drive financial performance and support business objectives.
• Adaptability: Ability to adapt to changing business needs and priorities, and to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.

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.