Manager, Finance Business Partner, Core Payments and Consumer

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, Core Payments and Consumer

Manager, Finance Business Partner, Core Payments and Consumer

Overview

• The Manager, Finance Business Partner (FBP), Core Payments and Consumer serves as a senior advisor to Product, Commercial, and Regional Leadership. This role serves to drive profitable growth, enabling strategic decision-making, and shaping the financial architecture for high-priority product lines working with and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Key responsibilities include leading planning cycles, delivering insightful performance analysis, upholding governance standards (revenue recognition, contra, accruals), and shaping data-driven decisions on pricing, investments, and market expansion.
• The Finance Business Partner (FBP) function manages all aspects of management reporting, including budgeting and forecasting, strategic and customer planning, and corporate reporting requirements for the region. This position supports the Director, FBP (Regional Finance) across a broad spectrum of strategic processes and initiatives, focusing on all Core Payments and Consumer.

Role

• Finance business partnering with different stakeholders across various products in Core and Consumer Payments.
• Support 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.
• Develop engagement and reporting processes between RHQ, Divisions, Global Markets and various functional groups.
• Support the development of business plans and the annual planning and budget process. Responsible for incorporating accurate data uploads into the Hyperion budgeting and forecasting tool, as well as compiling, completing and submitting the Preliminary Budget Review Template and CEO Review Template to Global Markets on time.
• Generate relevant performance information and analysis on key business drivers of revenue, expense and contra. Identify and communicate risks and opportunities.
• Support preparation of management reporting packages and financial presentations for Regional Management, Global Markets and other ad-hoc business reviews.
• Respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis. Develop and continuously improve in-region and corporate financial analysis and reporting.
• Collaborate with the Regional Business Development team to include analysis of underpinning assumptions in the management reporting process.
• Provide leadership and guidance to Divisional Finance teams on the use of Hyperion for revenue forecasting.
• Apply strategic understanding of business dynamics in regional markets and competitive forces to drive creative responses and formulate mitigating strategies.
• Support continuous reviews of existing processes to assess operational efficiency, and develop and implement process improvements to ensure processes meet present and anticipated needs of internal customers, members and other stakeholders.

All About You

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or analysis, or MBA/CA/CPA/MBA Finance, with strong knowledge of financial planning, management, reporting, forecasting and budgeting techniques.
• 6–8 years of relevant experience in finance, planning, analysis or a related field.
• Good knowledge of Business Intelligence tools and experience with financial systems/applications, such as Hyperion and Oracle.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and strategic thinking skills, with good business understanding.
• Ability to deliver accurate results in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities within condensed timelines.
• Self-motivated and collaborative, with a proven track record of delivering success in a team environment.
• Excellent communication, presentation, relationship management and networking skills.
• Influences and negotiates effectively with Divisional Finance teams and other stakeholders, constructively challenging assumptions to shape robust financial submissions and business decisions.
• Ensures Finance is closely integrated with the business by providing managers with timely, relevant financial insight to support sound decision-making and strategic planning.
• Brings strong commercial acumen, analytical judgment and creative problem-solving to balance opportunities, risks and mitigating actions.
• Communicates clearly and persuasively with senior stakeholders, with the maturity to challenge ideas while maintaining a collaborative and considerate approach.
• Demonstrates a hands-on, resilient and adaptable leadership style, with strong work ethic, drive and the ability to lead change in a dynamic environment.

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.