Manager, Accounting

Manager, Accounting

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.

The Rebates and Incentives (R&I), Manager of Accounting within the Corporate Controllers group work with others within our R&I team, serving as an advisor and liaison with regional controllership, shared services center, other key stakeholders and external auditors. The R&I, Manager provides operational support and accounting guidance for customer business agreements, ensuring appropriate R&I policies are followed and that a strong internal control environment is maintained both regionally and centrally.

In addition, the R&I, manager possesses strong communication skills to engage teams to optimize and even transform the current processes and controls. A key part of the role is to be able to influence positive change through dialogue partnership with senior management, peers, and stakeholders (e.g. GBSC, Regional Controllers).

Role:

• Oversight of the Global R&I processes driving issue resolution & relationship management with the regions, business units, and accounting shared service center.
• Provide ongoing support to regional controllership, shared services center and other key stakeholders on R&I accounting issues.
• Lead in the decision-making process by providing accounting guidance for business-related R&I transactions.
• Perform and document accounting research for new and non-routine transactions to determine US GAAP treatment.
• Advise and interact with senior management on R&I transactions, including preparation of various quarterly deliverables and providing updates of R&I activity.
• Manage quarterly pre-close R&I meetings with both regions and shared services center.
• Review reporting deliverables to ensure compliance with SEC requirements.
• Transform current state by identifying: (1) efficiencies and solutions to enhance processes, (2) opportunities to further automate and streamline processes and (3) standardized R&I processes to enable risk-based approaches around the review and analysis of R&I activity; ensuring processes are sustainable for future growth of the business globally.
• Oversee compliance activities, as needed (e.g.. Mastercard policies, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Operational Risk Management (ORM)) and communicates potential exposures on a timely manner.
• Interact with external auditors regarding the application of US GAAP for R&I related transactions and disclosures.

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About You:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance or related discipline, Certified Public Accountant or Chartered Accountant or equivalent.
• Manager or equivalent experience at a public accounting firm or similar technical accounting experience in a large public company.
• Strong general accounting knowledge including US GAAP and proficient with researching accounting literature.
• Strong communication skills, with an emphasis on financial and business acumen.
• Experience assessing the effectiveness and oversight of operational and financial control implementation; ensures compliance within a diverse organization.
• Experience setting plan for process improvement initiatives along with developing procedures for implementation.
• Experience building collaborative working relationships with stakeholders at the global/regional, local or corporate level.
• The ideal candidate is fast-paced, highly analytical and detail-oriented who demonstrates a sense of urgency and knowledge and experience with finance functions.
• Self-motivated with ability to meet project deliverables.
• Proficient PC skills, especially Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Hyperion & Oracle a plus.
• Excellent project management skills with strong analytical and financial skills.
• Must be able to integrate knowledge across disciplines and demonstrate effective…