Director, Finance Business Partner US Customer Planning

Director, Finance Business Partner US Customer Planning

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.

Overview

A Finance Director position within US Customer Planning team (Part of The America's), which supports & partners with the EVP (and their team) for a key US Accounts. Responsible for ensuring timely execution of Planning, Reporting, and Business Partnering responsibilities. This position will report directly to the VP, Finance Business Partner for Customer Planning.

Role

Drive the customer planning process and all related activities across the account team

Manage/coordinate the budgeting, forecasting, planning, and monitoring needs for the account lead and team. Responsible for the production of financial reporting of all business activity, revenue streams, budget utilization and cost allocations

Manage all financial inputs for objective setting, SIP targeting and compensation measurements as part of annual business planning process

Participate in the creation, review and approval of business development proposals to ensure the sustainable, profitable growth of the Customer P&L. Activities include:

• The development/review of business cases and financial models
• Provide training and consultation to account team on business case and financial model best practices
• Perform monitoring and conduct periodic audits of performance results for all active business agreements
• Participate in finalizing business contracts
• Direct customer interaction as required

Responsible for all monthly/quarterly reporting deliverables: including performance tracking against plans, quarterly reviews, incentive variance analysis, revenue analysis, risk and opportunities analysis, pending deals updates, track performance against key joint and strategic initiatives, etc. as well as the monitoring (periodic audits) of performance results for all active business agreements

Provide team measurements, analytics and reporting to US Finance, Account team and other MC constituents as appropriate

Motivate, inspire, coach, and develop staff and ensure team is providing needed financial support to account team

All About You

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or related discipline

Demonstrated finance and/or general management experience preferably with a solid understanding of the payments industry

Capability to provide a balanced perspective from both a customer/CAM perspective and a finance organization perspective

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills; highly proficient using MS Excel

Strategic planning experience

Negotiation capabilities

Possess strong relationship management skills:

• Internal advocate for account team and customer to ensure that the organization is responsive to needs of customer
• Proactively builds and develops key relationships
• Understands the diverse needs and objectives of various stakeholders

Demonstrated understanding of key business fundamentals including political, financial, business and regulatory environments of the customer organization; as well as drivers of financial health of customers and Mastercard

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.

Pay Ranges

Purchase, New York: $163,000 - $269,000 USD