Performs complex financial accounting, reporting, sub-ledger accounting, and financial analysis. Ensures compliance with accounting standards, regulations, SOX controls, and reporting requirements. Reviews accounting treatment, supports audits, resolves issues, recommends process improvements, assesses control effectiveness, and partners with internal business stakeholders and auditors.
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
Overview• Responsible for financial accounting, financial reporting and operating activities• Activities at the junior levels include settlement accounting; accounts receivable; fixed assets; and at the senior levels preparing budgets and financial reports; conducting financial analyses; and making recommendations to senior management• The Controller should have oversight and controls in place around the accounting and business processes and assure the accuracy and timely completion of all accounting transactions
Responsibilities• Performs complex accounting activities (e.g., sub-ledger accounting [SLA] and high level financial statements) in accordance with accounting principles and standards to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, laws and reporting requirements• Responsible for analyzing and exercising judgment on financial performance and complex issues• Independently determines complexity of issues, escalates and makes recommendations to leadership• Assists with the implementation of process improvements• Supports SOX compliance and assisting with control improvements• Supports the business partner relationship and applies a client-service mentality towards all deliverables• Supports relationship with external and internal auditors
Experiences• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements and financial reporting requirements and consistently delivers accurate work on a timely basis• Experience reviewing and analyzing work for appropriate accounting treatment• Experience implementing and suggesting process improvements• Experience performing basic issue resolution; gains exposure to the resolution of complex issues• Experience executing controls and assessing their effectiveness, makes recommendations to improve upon areas of concern• Proactively builds relationships with business partners• May produce and review internal and external reports with a moderate level of complexity to ensure compliance
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:
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
Overview• Responsible for financial accounting, financial reporting and operating activities• Activities at the junior levels include settlement accounting; accounts receivable; fixed assets; and at the senior levels preparing budgets and financial reports; conducting financial analyses; and making recommendations to senior management• The Controller should have oversight and controls in place around the accounting and business processes and assure the accuracy and timely completion of all accounting transactions
Responsibilities• Performs complex accounting activities (e.g., sub-ledger accounting [SLA] and high level financial statements) in accordance with accounting principles and standards to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, laws and reporting requirements• Responsible for analyzing and exercising judgment on financial performance and complex issues• Independently determines complexity of issues, escalates and makes recommendations to leadership• Assists with the implementation of process improvements• Supports SOX compliance and assisting with control improvements• Supports the business partner relationship and applies a client-service mentality towards all deliverables• Supports relationship with external and internal auditors
Experiences• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements and financial reporting requirements and consistently delivers accurate work on a timely basis• Experience reviewing and analyzing work for appropriate accounting treatment• Experience implementing and suggesting process improvements• Experience performing basic issue resolution; gains exposure to the resolution of complex issues• Experience executing controls and assessing their effectiveness, makes recommendations to improve upon areas of concern• Proactively builds relationships with business partners• May produce and review internal and external reports with a moderate level of complexity to ensure compliance
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.
Mastercard Mumbai, Maharashtra, IND Office
Mastercard Mumbai, India Office
Bandra Kurla Complex Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 400051
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