Director, Finance Business Partner

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.

Director, Finance Business Partner

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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.

With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

We are looking for a Director who has significant experience with Technology finance and progressive experience managing a team of financial professionals. The Finance Business Partner role is responsible for a broad range of finance-related responsibilities as a finance leader. Activities include short/long‑term planning, deal management, contract management, pricing and product management, cost optimization, business case development and benefit tracking. The successful candidate will gain experience in managing technology spend and managing investments, ROI and prioritization of initiatives.

• Drives aspects of financial reporting related needs and requirements (e.g., budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, target setting) for technology infrastructure spend including network, public cloud, database, mainframe costs, etc.
• 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, working closely with sourcing and leveraging subject matter expertise 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.

• Seasoned leader with proven experience building out high performing teams, and working in matrix organizations across functions and businesses.
• Track record building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships in order to understand the needs and objectives of stakeholders.
• Successfully oversees the completion of global, complex management reporting (e.g. monthly financial results, quarterly forecasting, annual budgets).
• Working closely with supporting functions of Sourcing, controllership, tax and others to ensure finance and P&L impacts are considered in decisions to minimize financial risk and forecast surprises.
• 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 events.
• Extensive experience setting strategy for process improvement initiatives along with developing procedures for…