Lead Business Analyst

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.

Lead Oracle EPM / Hyperion Business Systems Analyst

The Global Business Services Center (GBSC) Systems team is the strategic financial systems organization within Mastercard’s Global Shared Services organization. The team owns and operates critical financial applications, including Oracle Financials, Oracle EPM, Hyperion Planning, and Essbase, that support Mastercard’s businesses globally.

We are seeking an experienced Oracle EPM professional with at least seven years of hands‑on experience with Hyperion Planning, Essbase, and Oracle EPM Cloud. The ideal candidate will have experience delivering end‑to‑end implementations, application enhancements, and cloud migrations.

As a Lead Oracle EPM / Hyperion Business Systems Analyst on the GBSC Systems Hyperion team, you will serve as a functional and technical expert across Mastercard’s financial planning and reporting platforms. You will analyze business requirements, contribute to solution design, perform hands‑on application development, lead system initiatives, and provide ongoing production support.

This role partners closely with FP&A, Tax, Human Resources, Technology, and other business functions to deliver scalable solutions for financial planning, forecasting, profitability analysis, allocations, and management reporting. The successful candidate must be able to translate complex business needs into sustainable system solutions while leading initiatives and coordinating work across onsite, offshore, and third‑party resources.

This is a hybrid position based in Purchase, New York. Minimal travel of approximately 5% may be required. During critical financial‑processing periods, the role may also require after‑hours or on‑call support.

• Analyze business needs and translate functional requirements into scalable financial‑system solutions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support Hyperion Planning, Essbase, and Oracle EPM Cloud applications.
• Develop and maintain financial reporting solutions, including Financial Reporting and Smart View.
• Support financial‑system capabilities related to budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis, allocations, and management reporting.
• Lead or contribute to end‑to‑end Hyperion and Oracle EPM implementation, enhancement, and cloud‑migration initiatives.
• Participate across the complete solution lifecycle, including requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing, validation, deployment, training, and post‑production support.
• Develop and maintain complex allocation models, business rules, calculation scripts, data integrations, security structures, multidimensional databases, and reporting solutions.
• Monitor application environments, troubleshoot system issues, and identify opportunities to improve performance, stability, and the user experience.
• Lead small‑to‑medium‑sized projects in partnership with business and technology stakeholders.
• Partner with FP&A, Tax, Human Resources, and other teams to understand business processes and recommend effective system solutions.
• Assess the impact of system changes and integrations across financial planning, forecasting, profitability analysis, allocation, and reporting processes.
• Coordinate deliverables across onsite, offshore, and third‑party…