Manager, Finance Business Partner

Title and Summary

Manager, Finance Business Partner

Overview
• Responsible for a broad range of finance related responsibilities and acts as a finance generalist for Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
• Activities include deal management, short/long-term planning, contract management, pricing and product management

Role
• Manages aspects of financial and budgeting related needs and requirements for Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
• Ensure P&L understanding and implications for local board and key stakeholders. Provides financial insights to group heads/executives, applying an understanding of budgets, and forecasts at a detailed level
• Provide and regularly review plans going forward, articulating risks and opportunities.
• Define yearly plans and budgeting process, including revenue & business drivers, incentives and rebates, A&M and GO&A expense controls.
• Partners with regions, business units, business partners and/or corporate to assist in developing, analyzing and validating new business opportunities. May support regional level payments by working with issuing and/or acquiring banks to analyze the integrity of payments and resolve billing inquiries
• Performs new opportunity assessments by providing counsel to the business around ongoing deals and Customer Business Agreements [CBA]
• Executes large, complex agreements, leveraging subject matter expertise [SME] for their designated area (e.g.. financial & data technology tools)
• Assists with strategy and process improvements to ensure alignment with market objectives; proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements
• Ensures compliance with policies. May perform control testing. Establish a strong internal control environment.
• Have a positive influence/ impact on finance staff and region personnel and is viewed as a leader within the group. Foster cooperation and teamwork among team members.

All About You
• University degree in a financial or related field. MBA desired.
• Extensive experience building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships in order to assist with the needs and objectives of stakeholders
• Experience leading the aspects of the 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
• Experienced with financial systems and applications; serves as a resource to those less experienced (e.g., Hyperion, Oracle)
• Experience identifying and implementing process improvement activities; makes recommendations to further improve procedures
• Successfully resolves complex issues in a timely and efficient manner
• Successfully embodies change management; executes corporate cultural initiatives, enhancing the support of an ever-evolving environment to fulfill corporate goals and objectives
• English and Spanish required.

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.