Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

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, Financial Planning & Analysis

Overview:

Global Supply Chain (GSC) encompasses sourcing, third party risk mgmt., travel & meeting services, and real estate. This role will support all of the above except real estate.

The GSC finance team provides Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) expertise to the organization by budgeting & forecasting, compiling and analyzing metrics, identifying trends and problems, communicating information to relevant groups and recommending actions to improve financial performance. It works with the business directly to 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.

Role:

• Manage the financial close process through the analysis of variances against budget, forecasts, and prior year actuals.
• Review and provide thoughtful business-driven commentary to finance leaders and business owners.
• Develop the annual plan, budget and monthly forecast / O&Rs.
• Create and maintain standardized financials that will help drive and support the business. Identify and communicate risks & opportunities and review and respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis.
• Drive Mastercard strategic plans by providing relevant financial analytics and business insights to key stakeholders, while developing robust tracking mechanisms.
• Develop periodic and ad-hoc financial insights business partners
• Execute on financial process improvements by building and maintaining financial tools to perform analysis and modeling.
• Leverage automation to create more efficient methods of delivering insights to business stakeholders.

All About You:

• Undergraduate Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering degree or related field.
• 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, Oracle, Tableau).
• Solid understanding of reporting, budgeting, and forecasting 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.
• Strong relationship management and networking skills.
• High intellect with good commercial acumen and a creative approach to problem solving.
• Ambitious, highly driven, and motivated.
• Positive working and can-do attitude.
• Maturity to challenge ideas and balance opportunities and threats.

As Mastercard is a global company, we sometimes have team members from outside of the location listed on this posting that are reviewing submitted applications. Please attach a copy of your resume in English to expedite the screening process.

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.