Manager, Controller

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

Manager, Controller

Manager controller

Job Description
• Ensure that the applicable legal entities under your responsibility are controlled in accordance with USGAAP and local reporting standards:

oProvide oversight over the legal entities
oFocus on Trial Balance accuracy
oReview of balance sheet reconciliations
oStatutory reporting - overlay entries for service fees, bonuses and other adjustments
oWhile statutory reporting to authorities is not mandatory today we can be asked to provide statutory accounts at any point in time
• Assist with the preparation of budgets / forecasts at the legal entity level:
• Partnering with the Global Shared Services Centre ("GBSC") to ensure complete, accurate and timely accounting records for the legal entities under scope
• Ensure that the legal entities are appropriately funded
• Oversee the banking administration for the legal entity
• Support the Tax team by ensuring that related accounting is correct, tax audits are supported and that the regions' tax submissions are in compliance with local regulations
• Support any applicable regulatory inquiries or reporting requirements
• Support the regional controller with quarterly reporting responsibilities to the Global Corporate Controllers' team
• Evaluate the transactions going through the legal entities are appropriate and provide the business with support for any new transactions and flows
• Support any process or control improvements related to these entities
• Ensure that the legal entity is following processes and procedures that are standard and in line with Mastercard practices
• Review accounting & finance processes and look for opportunities for improvement or enhancements and
• Document all controller related processes and procedures for the legal entities in scope

Skills & Experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred. Qualified Accountant (ACA, AMCA, ACCA)
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements and financial reporting requirements and consistently delivers accurate work on a timely basis
• Experience reviewing and analyzing work for appropriate accounting treatment
• Experience implementing and suggesting process improvements
• Experience performing basic issue resolution; gains exposure to the resolution of complex issues
• Experience executing controls and assessing their effectiveness, makes recommendations to improve upon areas of concern
• Proactively builds relationships with business partners
• May produce and review internal and external reports with a moderate level of complexity to ensure compliance
• Advanced MS Excel skills essential
• Experience in statutory reporting with IFRS and US GAAP experience
• Oracle/Hyperion skills beneficial

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.