Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Job Listing at Mastercard in D (Job ID R-239426-Dublin 18, Ireland)

Description

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.

Title and Summary

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis • The Director, Finance Business Partner, will be part of a global finance business partner team that supports the Executive Vice President of Business & Market Insights and the Chief Innovation Officer (incl. Foundry) & respective teams in reaching the strategic & operational objectives of the function.
• The team provides financial analysis to the Global Product Leads (incl. forecasting, planning and analysis, reporting, business case development, white space analysis & process improvements) as well provide support to the Regional BMI Leads to help drive the BMI business to achieve continued revenue growth.
• The Director will be responsible for developing and managing relationships in a complex matrix organization with business partners at multiple career levels in the organization,
• Are you motivated to understand the complexity of a business unit and apply your learnings to identify insights, opportunities and risks, and partner with the Business Executives for BMI and Foundry to achieve the business and financial goals?
• Have you ever been part of a matrix global organization where you are a key financial partner and driving force of the Division's financials?

Role

• Support the achievement of the overall BMI Business Case by developing/tracking KPIs and ROI metrics; opportunity business case review, pipeline tracking, revenue forecasting/recognition, expense management, and identifying opportunities & mitigating risks, while ensuring all financial (including revenue and margin) implications are top of mind in all strategic and operational decisions,
• Support the development of the annual BMI financial budget & divisional 3/5-year CAGR revenue growth plans where appropriate.
• Evaluating business proposals including strategic investment asks with financial rigor and a value-creation philosophy.
• Provide strategic financial input into pricing decisions to support a value-based pricing approach.
• Provide a laser focus and understanding when building and maintaining a highly accurate revenue and margin forecast that aligns with corporate reporting timelines and expectations.
• Support existing and identify new revenue growth initiatives through (for example) White Space analysis to identify new customer opportunities / target existing MA customers not yet penetrated by BMI.
• Interfacing with other finance / operations functions to track and report on Employee Sales Productivity by region and product line to drive further productivity efficiencies.
• Interacting with Compensation function to ensure optimal use of commission plans across sales team to deliver continuous revenue growth and sales productivity improvements.
• Interpret competitor, industry and economic analysis to benefit future growth and BMI investments.
• Engage in ongoing cost optimisation / efficiency initiatives to ensure that the BMI function continues to identify and achieve margin improvements across all lines of business, including further offshoring, grants etc.
• Coordinating with Controllers and Tax on financial accounting, treatment of differing revenue streams/opportunities, and tax implications of initiatives and statutory reporting as required.
• Ensure accounting and financial controls and policies are applied consistently throughout the BMI function.

All About You

• Bachelor's degree in finance or related field (Master's preferred),
• Strong analytical skills with an attention to detail, coupled with the ability to have a big picture strategic perspective,
• Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills; ability to distil and present information to senior audiences/clients in person and virtually.
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively and cross functionally across multiple locations,
• Team player, proactive, agile and able to deliver within agreed deadlines,
• Strong business & commercial acumen to support growth of the business
• Track record building and managing internal and external business partnerships,
• Keen sense of urgency and results driven orientation,
• Ability to develop and execute against clear action plans, both over short and longer terms,
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills and the ability to prioritize workloads.
• Prior experience in financial planning, analysis & forecasting or related Finance field,
• Knowledge of financial reporting systems and experience extracting insights from data,
• Understanding of accounting concepts and,
• Work and operate independently

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

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