Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

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Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis

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.

About Business Finance Center (BFC) -
BFC provides Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) expertise to the organization by compiling and analyzing metrics, identifying trends and problems, communicating information to relevant groups, and recommending actions to improve financial performance. It works with business directly to drive planning efforts, identify business drivers, and develop the bottom-up budget and forecast. It also helps business in standard, ad hoc reporting, and key performance indicators (KPIs) each period for the business and finance management and helping to provide decision support to business teams as needed. We are a strong 150+ member team (finance professionals) based out of Gurgaon, India and Bogota, Colombia

About the Role:
• Facilitate Currency Neutral SME meetings with regional/vertical FP&A teams and drive ongoing exposure reporting as well as P&L exposure forecast process for each forecast/budget cycle.
• SOX Audit - Facilitating the SOX Compliance - Forecast/Budget Process for Exposures.
• Validating the FX Impacts on monthly basis calculated by system.
• Calculating the Adjusted Growth Rate (Neutralized for CN Impact) to be reported in Earnings (Model Run for Transaction & Translation Impact Calculations, Rate Analysis).
• Provide ongoing Currency Neutral trainings to SMEs across the finance organization.
• Enhance Currency Neutral infrastructure to adapt to the changing business needs.
• Support analytical needs on FX impact and exposure variances by working with Corporate FP&A, Treasury, and Controller teams.
• Engage in ad-hoc Corporate projects as and when required.

All About you:
• Educational qualification - Post graduate finance degree, CA, CPA, or MBA Finance.
• Experience in financial roles with advanced knowledge and experience with all phases of financial planning and management.
• Good knowledge of Business Intelligence tools and experience with financial systems / applications (e.g., Hyperion and Oracle).
• Solid understanding of reporting, budgeting, and forecasting techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated with a proven track record of delivering success while operating in a team environment.
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency and accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple activities of different nature in a condensed timeframe.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong strategic thinking and business understanding.
• Strong relationship management and networking skills.
• High intellect with good commercial acumen and a creative approach to problem solving.
• Ambitious, highly driven, and motivated.
• Maturity to challenge ideas and balance opportunities and threats.

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.