Analyst, 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
Analyst, Finance Business Partner
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 U.S. Customer Planning function serves as the finance business partnering function to U.S. Market Development and U.S. Financial Institutions customer account management teams and is part of the broader Americas Regional Finance team.
About Business Finance Center (BFC)
The BFC provides Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) expertise to the organization by compiling and analyzing metrics, identifying trends and problems, communicating information to relevant groups and recommending actions to improve financial performance. It works with the business directly to drive planning efforts, identify business drivers, and develop the bottom-up budget and forecast. It also helps business in standard, ad-hoc reporting, and key performance indicators (KPIs) each period for the business and finance management and also helping to provide decision support to business teams as needed. We are a strong 100+ member team (finance professionals) based out of Gurgaon, India and Bogota, Colombia
Role
• Manage the financial close process through the analysis of customer-level variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals, encompassing volume, revenue, customer rebates & incentives and expenses. • Review and provide thoughtful business-driven commentary to Americas Finance management.• Develop the customer-level annual plan, budget and monthly forecast / O&Rs. • Create and maintain standardized financial reporting packages that will help drive and support the business, inclusive of customer metrics, KPIs and revenue generation initiatives. Identify and communicate revenue risks & opportunities and review and respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis. • Drive Mastercard strategic plans by providing relevant customer-level financial analytics and business insights to key stakeholders, while developing robust tracking mechanisms. • Develop periodic and ad-hoc financial insights for U.S. customer account management teams. • Execute on financial process improvements by building and maintaining financial tools to perform analysis and modeling. • Leverage automation to create more efficient methods of delivering insights to business stakeholders.
All About you
• Educational qualification - Post-graduate Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering degree or related field. • Experience in financial roles with advanced knowledge and experience with all phases of financial planning and management. • Good knowledge of Business Intelligence tools and experience with financial systems / applications (e.g., Hyperion, Oracle, Tableau). • Solid understanding of reporting, budgeting, and forecasting 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. • Language - Fluent English Speaker• Strong relationship management and networking skills. • High intellect with good commercial acumen and a creative approach to problem solving. • Ambitious, highly driven, and motivated.• Positive working and can-do attitude.• Maturity to challenge ideas and balance opportunities and threats.
As Mastercard is a global company, we sometimes have team members from outside of the location listed on this posting that are reviewing submitted applications. Please attach a copy of your resume in English to expedite the screening process.
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.