Director, Finance Business Partner - Technology Infrastructure

Director, Finance Business Partner

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.

Overview:
Mastercard's Technology business unit operates the company's global payments processing infrastructure and development. Technology uses its expertise to make payments safe, simple and smart. Finance Business Partners within Technology work closely with technology leaders and their teams to create financial plans, manage financial performance and evaluate investment opportunities. The Finance Business Partner role provides an excellent platform for career development.

The successful candidate will gain experience in managing and optimizing investments that enable global payments.

Role:
Reporting to the VP, Finance Business Partner this role is responsible for a broad range of finance related responsibilities and acts as a finance subject matter expert for a technology business unit. Activities include short/long-term planning, deal management, contract management, pricing and product management.

Responsibilities:

• Leads and drives aspects of financial reporting related needs and requirements (e.g., budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, target setting) for a designated area within a technology business segment
• Provides financial insights to leadership, leveraging an advanced understanding of budgeting, long range planning and forecasting at detailed levels to assist in decision making and enhance financial performance; recommend new metrics to measure success
• Partners with regions, business units, business partners and/or corporate to assist in developing, analyzing and validating new business opportunities
• Collaborates with senior business partners, acting as a trusted advisor on financial matters, ensuring alignment with goals and strategies; partner with sourcing to deliver efficiencies alignment with targets; performs variance analysis to deliver and articulate arguments in an effective manner
• Executes large, complex agreements, leveraging subject matter expertise for their designated area (e.g., financial & data technology tools)
• Performs new opportunity assessments by providing counsel to the business around ongoing deals and Customer Business Agreements
• Applies the Technology Business Management framework to allocate technology costs and enable product P&L management
• Assists with strategy and process improvements to ensure alignment with market objectives; proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements
• Ensures compliance with Enterprise Risk Management policies, may perform control testing
• Manages a team, conducts goal setting and performance appraisal processes, identifies and coaches top talent within own team
• Perform other ad hoc projects and financial analyses as needed including those for new business cases

Experiences:

• Robust understanding and experience as a Finance Business Partner in a Technology organization
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, Oracle, and Hyperion; prefer understanding of Apptio and Agile IT methodology
• Energetic and motivated team player with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions and teams, driving projects and key initiatives to successful completion.
• Proficient in managing multiple concurrent initiatives simultaneously
• Experience in managing a diverse, multifunctional, global Finance organization, including motivating, developing and inspiring Finance professionals
• Good working knowledge of general accounting and internal controls
• Proven presentation skills, including strong oral and written capabilities including executive level presentations
• Master's Degree preferred in Finance, Business or related field
• Track record building internal and external business partnerships; develops and…