Senior Analyst, Financial Planning

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

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

This Sr Analyst position is responsible across a broad spectrum of strategic processes and initiatives while managing and executing the corporate reporting and planning requirements

Role:

- Support the financial close process through the analysis of variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals, key business drivers and initiatives. Review and provide thoughtful business driven commentary to respective management teams
- Support the development of the annual plan/budget and forecast for scheduled cycle. Also be responsible for ensuring accurate data upload into Hyperion budgeting and forecasting tool
- Manage, develop and update standardized financial reporting packages that will help drive and support the business, inclusive of business metrics/KPIs. Also identify and communicate revenue risks and opportunities and review and respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis
- Support Mastercard strategic plans by providing relevant financial analytics and business insights to key stake-holders, while developing robust tracking mechanisms
- Execute on financial process improvements by building and maintaining financial tools to perform analysis and modeling; review and create suggestions to financial systems
- Investigate and create opportunities for automation and more efficient methods of creation and delivery anticipating needs of internal customers, members, and other stakeholders
- Work closely with FP&A lead(s), CFO and relevant business stakeholders to architect, develop, automate (repeatable processes), and maintain advanced reporting and data visualization capabilities on large volumes of data in order to support KPI tracking and reporting needs

All About you:

- Educational qualification - Chartered Accountant or CPA or MBA Finance - Experience in financial roles with advanced knowledge and experience with all phases of financial planning and management
- Good understanding of reporting, forecasting and budgeting techniques.
- Ability to translate results of analyses into data-driven insights to ensure key messages resonate with the target audience
- Ability to collaborate with peers and cross functional teams, working across multiple time zones
- Experience in BI tools (Tableau, Power BI) preferred
- 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.
- High intellect with good commercial acumen and a creative approach to problem solving.
- Ambitious, highly driven and motivated.

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 suspe