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: 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 Financial Planning & Analysis 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. Role: - Supports a specific targeted area with financial and budget-related needs; conducts financial analysis for group/business unit leadership. - Partners with the Engineering business to support objective delivery by providing relevant financial analytics, regular reporting, and business insights to key stakeholders, while developing robust tracking mechanisms. - Applies strategic understanding of business dynamics and competitive forces in different markets to provide insights that aid the business in making financially sound decisions. - Escalates analysis and findings where applicable to Finance and Business leadership where course correction is required to deliver against financial plans and objectives. - Assists with strategy and process improvements to ensure alignment with Engineering objectives; proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed-upon improvements. FP&A; Responsibilities: - Performs the annual target and budget process by issuing guidelines, analyzing performance, producing key management reports, consolidating information, and tracking changes. - Drives the financial planning and reporting needs, e.g., ownership of the development of Budget, Forecasts, O&Rs;, and strategic plans. - Owns the monthly close process, delivering analysis of variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals, key business drivers, and initiatives. Reviews and provides thoughtful business-driven commentary to management teams. - Designs and executes financial process improvements by building and maintaining financial tools for analysis and modeling. - Investigates and creates opportunities for automation and more efficient methods of insightful analysis creation and delivery, anticipating internal customer and stakeholder needs. - Responds promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis. All about you: - Relevant qualification in business, accounting, and/or finance preferred. - Experience operating in a diverse, multi-functional accounting and/or finance group. - Ability to work independently and as part of a team; proactive and deadline-oriented. - Experience building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships. - Exposure to supporting a designated business area on risk and opportunity considerations, leveraging analytical techniques and outside trends. - Experience reviewing and analyzing financial and operational modeling to support moderate-to-complex projects. - Experienced with financial systems and applications (e.g., Hyperion, Oracle). - Experience in process improvement activities; recommends procedures enhancements. - Successfully resolves complex issues efficiently. Corporate Security Responsibility: All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with inherent risks. Every person working for or on behalf of Mastercard must: - Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices. - Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of accessed information. - Report any suspected security violations or breaches. - Complete all mandatory security trainings as per Mastercard’s guidelines. #J-18808-Ljbffr