Manager, Finance Business Partner, Global Partnerships

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Overview

The Global Partnerships team is responsible for cultivating and managing Mastercard's strategic partnerships with key players across the payments ecosystem. The team works with global players in tech, e-commerce, and financial services to create innovative, differentiated products and solutions that shape the future of commerce.

The Mastercard Finance team is currently hiring a strong candidate to support the Global Partnerships team at Mastercard. Reporting into the Global Partnerships Director, Finance Business Partner, the Manager will play a key role in partnering with the Global Partnerships team to develop and execute strategic and tactical priorities/initiatives/deals whilst evaluating the financial impact. The Manager should have a Finance background, with experience from Busness Partnering/ Accounting roles as well as strong analytics skills.

Role
• Drive development and automation of dynamic and interactive management reporting to provide Senior Management Team with timely financial information to drive action across Global Partnerships team.
• Support analysing complex data sets for current and past trends in key performance indicators
• Support Global Partneships Segment leads and Account Management teams in tracking of their KPIs and ad-hoc analysis
• Support Business Development Finance and Deals Implementation teams with key financial indicators of Global Partnership customers, ensring accuracy of deals modelling, accounting and forecasting
• Manage Expenses reporting, month-end close analysis and forecast process for Global Partnership teams

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position should:
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or equivalent combination of education and work experience in financial analysis
• Demonstrate the ability to build internal and external business partnerships; begin to develop key relationships to understand the needs and objectives of stakeholders
• Analytical, numeric and detail oriented with excellent Excel skills. Ability to handle large data-sets efficiently
• Be experienced with financial systems and applications (e.g.. Hyperion, Oracle, Power BI); have excellent knowledge of Excel; have good verbal and writing skills; have experience in development and automation of management reporting
• Good interpersonal skills with a track record of cross functional collaboration
• Able to work with ambiguity with the ability to decide and act without the full picture
• Be able to establish priorities and to work independently
• Be a team player, analytical, results driven, flexible and adaptable
• Self-motivated and a self-starter with a drive for continuous improvement
• Be structured and well organized, able to work efficiently under pressure and with tight deadlines

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.