Director, Finance Business Partner

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 Director, Finance Business Partner Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and intellectually curious Director, Finance Business Partner to support Mastercard Technology’s investment decisioning. This role serves as a key partner to the VP, Finance Business Partner and plays a critical part in driving high-quality business cases, advanced financial modeling, and data-driven insights that influence strategic technology outcomes. The ideal candidate combines strong financial rigor with an eagerness to understand how technology works—how platforms scale, how architectures drive cost, and how engineering decisions translate into financial impact. They are comfortable navigating ambiguity, asking the right questions, and distilling complex technical topics into clear, actionable recommendations. This role is perfect for someone who is assertive, structured, detail-oriented, and motivated by the challenge of bringing clarity to complex decisions. The Director will help build and maintain the modeling infrastructure, standardize processes, and elevate the quality, speed, and transparency of technology investment decisions. Role: 1. Business Case Development & Strategic Modeling • Build and own end-to-end financial models for technology investment business cases, ensuring clarity, structure, and ease of maintenance. • Translate technical inputs (capacity, architecture, engineering labor, infrastructure components, etc.) into robust financial outputs. • Conduct scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and line-item modeling to support investment trade-off decisions. • Provide support in preparing materials for steering committees (steercos), ensuring alignment across Finance, Technology, and Product stakeholders. 2. Cross-Functional Partnering • Partner with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and product leaders to understand technology drivers and convert them into financial implications. • Collaborate closely with Finance (FP&A, Controllership, Strategy) to ensure business cases align with broader financial goals and P&L impacts. • Gather, validate, and challenge assumptions from cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy and transparency. 3. Process & Framework Ownership • Help build a repeatable, scalable framework for business case development, including standardized templates, modeling logic, and governance practices. • Maintain a quarterly refresh process for all models, ensuring assumptions, actuals, and forecasts remain current. • Drive consistency and traceability across inputs, assumptions, and outputs. 4. Strategic Insights & Decision Support • Identify key financial drivers, highlight risks/opportunities, and provide insight-rich recommendations. • Proactively challenge assumptions, uncover blind spots, and elevate the quality of decision-making. • Support forecasting and budgeting activities related to technology investments and run-the-business cost structures. 5. Automation & Continuous Improvement • Identify opportunities to automate or streamline modeling, intake, and business case workflows. • Partner and provide support to implement tools that modernize the end-to-end investment process (Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, modeling engines, automation solutions). • Consistently push for efficiency, standardization, and data integrity. All About You: • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, or related field; MBA or CFA preferred. • Experience in FP&A, strategic finance, b ... (truncated, view full listing at source)