Senior Accountant

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.

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.

• The position reports to the Manager, UK Controller, part of the Europe Regional Controller’s group.
• The Europe Controllers Group is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the US GAAP financials in partnership with the GBSC (Global Business Service Center), ensuring local statutory reporting compliance as well as providing support to the business teams across a number of areas including accounting and controls.
• The role will cover controller activities in the UK, including support for Mastercard Payment Gateway Services.
• The Controller activities include the following:
• Integrity of the Financials - The Controllers work in partnership with their local teams and the GBSC to ensure that the financial statements for their businesses are appropriate. This includes both management reporting and statutory filings.
• Business Advice is provided by the Controllers to ensure the proper accounting and reporting for transactions, customer deals, expenses and other areas.
• The Controllers play a critical role in the First Line of Defence in the Risk and Control Framework. Using the Operational Risk Management (ORM) methodologies and policy, the Controllers ensure that we have efficient processes with effective controls.

• Oversee the integrity of the financial records of UK based legal entities in accordance with Master Card policies in partnership with the GBSC.
• Manage the statutory account audits for UK based legal entities on a timely basis as well as provision of quarterly disclosure information to Master Card Corporate Group;
• Maintain strong relationships with external parties (auditors and other third parties involved in the statutory reporting process).
• Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and be able to assess and communicate key risks and opportunities within the business.
• Assist with the preparation of the monthly financial statement monitoring control in preparation of the monthly review conducted by management.
• Maintain a strong internal control environment and improve internal controls where necessary to ensure a scalable infrastructure is in place to allow the company to operate and grow effectively while mitigating risk. Ensure continued alignment with Master Card internal control procedures.
• Documentation of financial and business processes throughout the group of companies under scope of responsibility.
• Ad hoc support for Tax and treasury activities including…