Description
Mastercard is seeking a Director, FP&A – Commercial to report to the Vice President, FP&A – CNPF and serve as a trusted partner to the SVP/Commercial CFO.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in driving financial planning, long-term projections for the board, strategy execution/performance tracking, and executive reporting for the Commercial organization.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning FP&A for Commercial end-to-end ownership across all processes and establishing solid and resilient governance across all regions
- Leading planning/forecast and close cycles, long-term projections for the board, financial tracking of strategy execution, while serving as primary financial advisor for SVP/Commercial CFO and his team
- Acting as a trusted partner to the Commercial CFO as required, providing continuity across deliverables, leadership forums, and senior stakeholder engagement
- Establishing new processes and governance, while developing a set of managerial reports for business performance and strategy tracking
- Liaising with regional leads, while continuing to enhance competitive intelligence
- Owning Commercial revenue consolidation and expense governance, ensuring transparency, accountability, and financial discipline
- Leading and overseeing month-end close deliverables, including variance analysis versus budget, forecast, prior year, and key business drivers
- Developing and delivering executive-level reporting, dashboards, and presentation materials for Commercial leadership and the CFO Commercial
- Ensuring accuracy, integrity, and governance of data into enterprise planning systems
- Designing, maintaining, and continually improving standardized reporting packs, KPIs, and performance metrics
- Driving process improvement and automation, building scalable analytical tools and financial models
- Providing review, oversight, and coaching across analytical outputs, ensuring high quality and consistency
- Leading ad hoc analysis and special projects, exercising sound judgement on prioritization and stakeholder management
- Guiding and developing team members
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or related discipline
- Progressive experience in FP&A, or Finance Business Partner, with demonstrated growth in scope, ownership, and stakeholder management, ability to manage team
- Strong working knowledge of financial systems and BI tools (e.g., Hyperion, Oracle, Power BI)
- Excellent understanding of forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and performance management
- Experience in Product financials or in Commercial is a plus
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, matrix environment
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate data into clear executive insight
- Excellent communication and relationship management skills
- Fluent in English