Senior Accountant

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
Senior Accountant
The Gross Revenue Sr. Accountant is responsible for managing revenue recording and reconciling to enable accurate, reliable, and timely reporting of financial statements and other financial data. This individual will ensure that team targets and KPIs are met and/or exceeded and will support operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives. This position will not only assist with current revenue accounting operations but also assist with future M&A integrations. The position also has responsibility for providing information support for and review of business analysis, as well as for first level interaction with other GBSC and business unit teams in the course of issue identification and resolution.
Role• Prepare monthly journal entries in accordance with U.S. GAAP• Monitor accounting for agreements to ensure compliance with MasterCard's policies, procedures and related accounting literature• Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations• Adheres to the monthly and year end close schedules and perform monthly reporting• Provides insight into revenue accounting activity through preparation of management reporting, variance analysis, and ad-hoc analysis • Performs ongoing documentation and procedures maintenance as required• Works to continuously improve expense processes; recognizes opportunities for improvement and develops actions plans to implement them• Represents GBSC on cross-functional project teams in support of initiatives with impact to the expense accounting process, identifies issues and develops recommendations for resolution, monitoring and reporting on progress• Provides revenue customer service support to help resolve issues in a timely manner• Drives front line interaction with other GBSC teams and internal business units in support of identification and resolution of processing issues.• Monitor and report on the overall health of the Balance Sheet through administration of our Blackline account reconciliation system.• Participates in SOX testing and internal and external audits and respond to requests timely and appropriately
All About You• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance• CPA and/or MBA preferred• Systems experience with Oracle and Blackline, Reconciliation tools• Prior related work experience, with revenue accounting experience preferred. Knowledge of revenue accounting and management processes and systems; • Experience in shared services/internal service delivery role a plus• Experience as a team member on project development/implementation teams a plus• Solid understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and procedures• Strong analytical and problem solving skills• Excellent time management and organizational skills• Customer service skills (communication with customers and process partners)• Excellent spreadsheet and word processing skills (Excel and Word preferred)
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.