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

　　Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

　　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 FP&A function manages all aspects of management reporting encompassing budgeting and forecasting, business analytics, strategic and customer planning for the North America Market (NAM) region. This includes the management and execution of the corporate reporting and planning requirements.

　　This position is responsible for supporting the Vice President across a broad spectrum of strategic processes and initiatives while managing and executing the corporate reporting and planning requirements

　　About Business Finance Centre (BFC)

　　BFC provides Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) 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 now expanding into Bogota, Colombia

　　Role:

　　• Lead the financial close process through the analysis of variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals, key business drivers and initiatives.

　　• Implement and maintain processes to ensure effective and timely generation of regional revenue forecasts and budgets.

　　• Drive strategic planning sessions by developing engagement and reporting processes between various functional groups.

　　• Lead development of the business plans and work to develop the annual plan and budget process. Lead the team for incorporating accurate data upload into Hyperion budgeting and forecasting tool as well as for the compilation, timely completion and submission of the Preliminary Budget Review Template and CEO Review Template to Corporate.

　　• Develop engagement and reporting processes between various functional groups.

　　• Generate pertinent performance information and analysis on key revenue drivers. Identify and communicate revenue risks and opportunities.

　　• Review management reporting packages and financial presentations for Regional Management, Corporate and other ad-hoc business reviews.

　　• Respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis. Develops and/or continues improve in-region and corporate financial analysis and reporting.

　　• Collaborate with Regional Business Development team to include the analysis of underpinning assumptions in the management reporting process.

　　• Apply strategic understanding of business dynamics in regional markets and competitive forces in driving creative responses and formulating mitigating strategies.

　　• Support continuous reviews of existing processes to assess operational efficiency and development and implementation of process improvements to ensure processes meet present and anticipated needs of internal customers, members, and other stakeholders

　　• Guide and Mentor the team

　　All About you:

　　• Educational qualification - Post graduate finance degree, CPA or MBA Finance.

　　• 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 and Oracle).

　　• 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 strategic thinking and business understanding.

　　• Strong relationship management and networking skills.

　　• High intellect with good commercial acumen and a creative approach to problem solving.

　　• Ambitious, highly driven and motivated.

　　• Maturity to challenge ideas and balance opportunities and threats.

　　• Strong communications skills in English (written and spoken) required

　　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, andComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.