Manager, Finance Business Partner, Services - Expenses

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, Finance Business Partner, Services - Expenses Overview: We are looking for a Finance Manager to help in leading our Finance Business Partnership practice through a period of high growth and expansion. This individual will work across the Entire Finance Team (Accounting and FP&A teams) to provide value-added insight and recommendations to the business and management during its high growth trajectory. Role: • Manages aspects of financial and budgeting related needs i.e., month end close, forecasts, annual budget processes • 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 • Performs the annual target and budget process by issuing guidelines, analyzing performance, producing key management reporting, consolidating information and tracking changes • 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 • Proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements • Partner with cross functional teams to drive analyses and make recommendations for improvement • Demonstrates strong modeling capabilities leveraging automation and data-driven approaches; supports the establishment of consistent frameworks and methodologies to enable global and regional finance business partners • Ability to sort/mine large sets of data from multiple data sources to identify trends/variances or areas of improvement • Create ad hoc templates, reports, and analyses for use by managers to evaluate their businesses or key initiatives • Collect and organize inputs required to maintain financial models or plans, as needed • Work with the accounting department to ensure accurate monthly accrual entries • Ability to maintain confidentiality of all pertinent information, including sensitive data • Reviews and responds promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis. All About You: • Sound understanding of Financial Concepts, Forecasts, and Data Modeling • Experience managing major elements of large, cross-functional projects • Demonstrated success working with partners across other business units and markets in support of cross-functional programs • Exposure to delivering presentations and engaging with senior leadership • Experience building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships to assist with the needs and objectives of stakeholders • Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task and meet deadlines • Ability to take ownership and lead effort from start to completion • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Successfully resolves complex issues in a timely and efficient manner; adapts to changing business needs and priorities • Robust understanding and proficiency in Microsoft Excel • Experienced with financial systems and applications; serves as a subject matter expert and mentor to those less experienced (e.g. Hyperion, Oracle, Thinkcell) • Experience with automation tools (Alteryx, Power BI, etc) a plus Corporate Security Responsibility All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization ... (truncated, view full listing at source)