Director, Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partners within O&T work closely with technology leaders and their teams to create financial plans, manage financial performance and evaluate investment opportunities. The Finance Business Partner role provides an excellent platform for career development. The successful candidate will gain experience in managing and optimizing investments that enable global payments.

The Finance Business Partner role is responsible for a broad range of finance-related responsibilities and acts as a finance generalist. Activities include short/long-term planning, deal management, contract management, pricing and product management. The successful candidate will gain experience in managing technology spend and managing investments, ROI and prioritization of initiatives.

Role:
• Drives aspects of financial reporting related needs and requirements (e.g., budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, target setting) for technology Infrastructure spend
• Provides financial insights to leadership, leveraging an advanced understanding of budgeting, long range planning and forecasting at detailed levels
• Partners with regions, business units, business partners and/or corporate to assist in developing, analyzing and validating new business cases for modernization and other tech advancement imperatives
• Performs new opportunity assessments by providing counsel to the business around technology partners on financial modeling
• Executes large, complex agreements, leveraging subject matter expertise [SME] for their designated area (e.g., financial & data technology tools)
• Applies the Technology Business Management [TBM] framework to allocate technology costs and understand total cost of ownership of products
• Assists with strategy and process improvements to ensure appropriate forecast, close and cost optimization; proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements
• Manages a team, conducts goal setting and performance appraisal processes, identifies and coaches and mentors talent

All About You:
• Track record building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships in order to understand the needs and objectives of stakeholders
• Successfully oversees the completion of global, complex management reporting (e.g. monthly financial results, quarterly forecasting, annual budgets)
• Experience consulting and providing advice and feedback to the business on risk and opportunity considerations, leveraging advanced analytical techniques as well as outside trends and events
• Extensive experience setting strategy for process improvement initiatives along with developing procedures for implementation
• Demonstrated successful oversight of the management and resolution of high-risk issues to ensure completeness and efficiency
• Successfully embodies change management; executes corporate cultural initiatives, enhancing the support of an ever-evolving environment to fulfill corporate goals and objectives
• Experience with technology finance, tools like Apptio for technology business management is a plus, but not required

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $128,000 - $198,000 USD

Purchase, New York: $147,000 - $228,000 USD