Job Title :
Director, Finance Business Partner
Overview : Overview :
Mastercard's Operations and Technology (O&T) business unit operates the company's global payments processing infrastructure and development. O&T uses its expertise to make payments safe, simple and smart.
Finance Business Partners within O&T 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.
The Finance Business Partner role is responsible for a broad range of finance-related responsibilities and acts as a finance generalist. Activities include short / long-term planning, deal management, contract management, pricing and product management. The successful candidate will gain experience in managing technology spend and managing investments, ROI and prioritization of initiatives.
Role :
- Drives aspects of financial reporting related needs and requirements (e.g., budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, target setting) for technology Infrastructure spend
- Provides financial insights to leadership, leveraging an advanced understanding of budgeting, long range planning and forecasting at detailed levels
- Partners with regions, business units, business partners and / or corporate to assist in developing, analyzing and validating new business cases for modernization and other tech advancement imperatives
- Performs new opportunity assessments by providing counsel to the business around technology partners on financial modeling
- Executes large, complex agreements, leveraging subject matter expertise [SME] for their designated area (e.g., financial & data technology tools)
- Applies the Technology Business Management [TBM] framework to allocate technology costs and understand total cost of ownership of products
- Assists with strategy and process improvements to ensure appropriate forecast, close and cost optimization; proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements
- Manages a team, conducts goal setting and performance appraisal processes, identifies and coaches and mentors talent
All About You :
Track record building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships in order to understand the needs and objectives of stakeholdersSuccessfully oversees the completion of global, complex management reporting (e.g. monthly financial results, quarterly forecasting, annual budgets)Experience consulting and providing advice and feedback to the business on risk and opportunity considerations, leveraging advanced analytical techniques as well as outside trends and eventsExtensive experience setting strategy for process improvement initiatives along with developing procedures for implementationDemonstrated successful oversight of the management and resolution of high-risk issues to ensure completeness and efficiencySuccessfully embodies change management; executes corporate cultural initiatives, enhancing the support of an ever-evolving environment to fulfill corporate goals and objectivesExperience with technology finance, tools like Apptio for technology business management is a plus, but not required