Senior Analyst - Finance Business Partner

At Mastercard Technology, we're working together to create a future that's seamless and secure. We're engineering critical connections that bring continents, customers and communities closer together.

The Senior Analyst, Finance Business Partner will help connect our strategy to our financial objectives by supporting the Operations, Network, and Employee Digital Experience organization within Technology. This role will report to a director overseeing multiple divisional P&Ls within Technology Finance.

Responsibilities:

• Provide financial consolidations and financial planning support to technology finance
• Support and potentially lead standardization efforts across technology finance
• Provide divisional financial reporting, identify financial risks & opportunities, and provide guidance to achieve financial targets for assigned division(s)
• Support the financial close process through the analysis of P&L variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals, key business drivers, and initiatives
• Deliver monthly expense forecast across entire P&L for assigned division(s), and present financials to senior management
• Maintain staffing plans and drive conversations with business on hiring timing, affordability, capacity, and tracking
• Support negotiations, alongside business and sourcing, renewals or new contractual spend for 3rd party services or technology solutions
• Contributes to special projects and performs various ad-hoc reporting or analysis as needed with a strong customer service focus.
• Participates in development and implementation of process improvements to improve operational controls/efficiency and quality of output

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a financial analysis role
• Advanced degree (MBA, Master's) or professional certification (CMA, CPA) a plus
• Must be able to adhere to the company's hybrid in office work policy
• Self-motivated with a track record of delivering success while operating in a team environment
• Must be comfortable working with ambiguous processes in a fluid environment, managing multiple priorities and assignments concurrently
• Strong communication skills and ability to interact, communicate, influence and navigate effectively with business teams
• Strong relationship management and networking skills
• Strong proficiency using MS suite of products Excel/Office/PowerPoint and enterprise ERP/Planning systems
• Proficiency using Power BI, Power Automate, or low code tools a plus