Manager, FP&A

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

Manager, FP&A

Manager FP&A (Services-Loyalty Solutions)

Overview
Support Regional and divisional Loyalty business teams as part of Regional Finance Service Leads organization
Responsible for budgeting and forecasting short/long-term plans, as well as preparing and analyzing internal and external financial reports
managing risks and opportunities, monitoring the revenue and expenses while considering movements on underlying business drivers

Responsibilities
1. Budgeting and Forecasting
a) Manage aspects of financial and budgeting related needs and requirements, including annual target and budget process
b) Run point for periodic revenue and expense re-forecasting process requiring detailed assessment of opportunities and risks (for remainder of financial year) in collaboration with divisional, regional and global loyalty and finance teams.
c) Conduct monthly close reviewing detailed revenue and expense accounts vs forecast; including preparing variance explanations vs forecast/budget each month
d) As part of a) to c), review, prepare and consolidate designated reports (monthly, quarterly, annual) and analysis, communicating findings and operating notes from regions and business units to group/business unit leadership
2. Business partnering - deal economics review, insights and analytics and other adhoc
a) Review deal economics for all proposed regional loyalty business cases - pricing, rack rate and drivers.
b) Support business strategy and proces improvement initiatives by providing useful insights and analytics to product and sales teams
c) Develop an in-depth understanding of revenue drivers, product and market nuances to effectively manage P&L - including building forecast model by Issuer, by market, by cost center by account in collaboration with divisional leads factoring in: pricing, volume, contract renewal/cancellation, implementation status, disputes, true-ups, new signed deals, pipeline
d) Escalate analysis and key findings to group heads and executives to ensure alignment within the organization
e) Embodies the LBF initiative by running and maintaining business models to analyze performance and business opportunities (e.g. MIS, KPIs, CEO deck)
f) Run point for ad hoc requests from business teams and collaborate to improve understanding of financial processes (billing, vendor management) within the team.

Experience
1. Experience building internal and external business partnerships; develop and leverage key relationships in order to understand the needs and objectives of stakeholders
2. Ability to model and perform predictive analytics to review financial and operational analysis and scenarios
3. Experience operating in a diverse, multi-functional finance group
4. Exposure to supporting a designated business area on risk and opportunity considerations, leveraging analytical techniques as well as outside trends and events
5. Experience with financial systems and applications; serves as a resource to those less experienced (e.g., Hyperion, Oracle)
6. Experience identifying and implementing process improvement activities; makes recommendations to further improve procedures
7. Successfully resolves complex issues in a timely and efficient manner
8. Successfully embodies change management; executes corporate cultural initiatives, enhancing the support of an ever-evolving environment to fulfill corporate goals and objectives

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.