Accountant

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

Accountant

Overview:
• Responsible for financial accounting, financial reporting and operating activities
• Activities at the junior levels include settlement accounting; accounts receivable; fixed assets; and at the senior levels preparing budgets and financial reports; conducting financial analyses; and making recommendations to senior management
• The Controller should have oversight and controls in place around the accounting and business processes and assure the accuracy and timely completion of all accounting transactions

Role:
• Performs accounting activities (e.g., reconciliations, journal entries) in accordance with accounting principles and standards to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, laws and reporting requirements
• May assists with internal financial reporting, performs comprehensive trend analysis and data mining; assesses for completeness
• Executes and supports internal and external controls
• Makes suggestions for process improvements to supervisor
• Assists in supporting the business partner relationship, including performing any ad-hoc analysis and reporting

All About You:
• Demonstrates knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting and delivers accurate and timely work
• Gains exposure to reviewing and analyzing own work for appropriate accounting treatment
• Experience performing process improvement activities
• Experience identifying and resolving basic issues in a timely manner
• Gains exposure to accounting control principles
• Experience building an internal network and relationships with business partners
• May produce and review internal and external reports (e.g., reports to Business Partners, Finance Leaders)

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.