Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

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, Financial Planning & Analysis

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.
Core Payments & Commercial Solutions and Small Business (SME) are priority areas for Mastercard. This role will focus on building analytics, financial reporting, data tracking, visualization, standardization and automation for both business units.

Role
• Create, update, enhance, and automate monthly and quarterly reporting packages (Monthly Business Reviews, Yield Analysis, Quarterly Business Reviews, Regional Execution and Pipeline meetings, etc.).
• Support month-end expense accruals and accounting entries by determining correct entries needed.
• Collect inputs and update corporate dashboards with monthly key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Conduct headcount forecasting including planning for additions, exits, and accounting coding validations.
• Engage in ad-hoc reporting on financials or business metrics as needed.
• Support the development of the annual plan/budget and forecast for scheduled cycle. Also be responsible for ensuring accurate data upload into Hyperion budgeting and forecasting tool
• Manage, develop and update standardized financial reporting packages that will help drive and support the business, inclusive of business metrics/KPIs. Also identify and communicate revenue risks and opportunities and review and respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis
• Support the development of presentations and analysis for quarterly business reviews (QBRs) and quarterly operating reviews (QORs), as well as ad hoc presentation
• Support Mastercard strategic plans by providing relevant financial analytics and business insights to key stakeholders, while developing robust tracking mechanisms
• Apply strategic understanding of business dynamics and competitive forces in different markets and supporting business to formulate mitigating strategies
• Execute on financial process improvements by building and maintaining financial tools to perform analysis and modelling; review and create suggestions to financial systems
• Investigate and create opportunities for automation and more efficient methods of creation and delivery anticipating needs of internal customers, members, and other stakeholders
• Support special projects as they arise.
All about you
• Educational qualification – Engineer or equivalent. Chartered Accountant or CPA or MBA Finance with strong tech experience. 2 to 4 yrs post qualification experience.
• Hands on experience of building dashboard on Power BI & Tableau, Alteryx with working knowledge of Alreayx, Python Sql etc. Candidates with prior experience of working on oracle or Hyperion would be preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated with a proven track record of delivering success while operating in a team environment.
• Advanced modelling and analytical skills (both quantitative and qualitative).
• Excellent project management, follow-up and organizational skills.
• Ability to work on several projects/workstreams simultaneously in a condensed time frame
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Intellectually curious and driven to find and share the story behind the numbers.
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency and accuracy
• Strong strategic thinking and business understanding

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.