Director, Financial Planning

**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, Financial Planning & Analysis, Services Expenses

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

Role - Director Expenses - Global Services
- Lead 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
- Drive the development of the annual plan/budget and forecast for schedules cycles. Also be responsible for ensuring accurate data upload into Hyperion budgeting and forecasting tool
- Manage, develop and create 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
- Drive 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
- Guide and Mentor the team

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.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- 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.
- Strong relationship management and networking skills.
- High intellect with good commercial acumen and a creative approach to problem solving.
- Ambitious, highly driven and motivated.
- Maturity to challenge ideas and balance opportunities and threats.

**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.