Vice President, Controller

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 Vice President, Controller Job Title: Vice President, Controller - Core Payments The Vice President, Controller - Core Payments reports to the SVP, Assistant Corporate Controller, and serves as the senior controllership leader responsible for the integrity, governance, audit readiness, and financial reporting environment for the business unit, with particular focus on blockchain and digital payments. This role operates as a strategic partner to global and regional finance teams, Treasury, Corporate Controllership, business leadership, and the Global Business Shared Service Organization (GBSC), providing authoritative accounting judgment and driving consistent execution across a complex global operating environment. The position will help establish and mature a best-in-class controllership function for a highly complex, strategically important, and recently acquired Mastercard business, including oversight of relevant legal entity, statutory, regulatory, treasury, and governance considerations. Roles and Responsibilities • Serve as the senior controllership advisor to business and finance leadership, providing accounting judgment on complex transactions, business models, digital asset and stablecoin-related activities, revenue recognition, balance sheet classification, and evolving regulatory matters. • Drive consistent application of accounting policies, controls, and reporting practices across global and regional teams, including coordination with Corporate Controllership, Technical Accounting, Regional Controllers, GBSC, Tax, Legal, Treasury, and business partners. • Own senior-level engagement with external auditors and support statutory, internal, regulatory, and other required audits, including audit documentation, issue resolution, and alignment across relevant controllership and GBSC teams. • Oversee compliance, governance, and financial integrity for relevant business activities and legal entities, including SOX, Internal Audit, ORM, statutory reporting, local audit requirements, and escalation of potential exposures to senior leadership. • Define and execute the compliance integration roadmap for the acquired business, including identification of applicable regulatory, statutory, SOX, data/privacy, third-party, and financial reporting obligations; assessment of current-state gaps; alignment to Mastercard policy requirements; and development of remediation plans. • Establish robust compliance reporting for the integration period, including risk and issue tracking, milestone reporting, evidence retention, control-gap status, audit finding resolution, and clear visibility to senior leadership on items that could impact financial reporting, regulatory compliance, or integration readiness. • Ensure the acquired company maintains audit-ready documentation throughout integration, including process narratives, control evidence, reconciliations, management review support, policy exception approvals, local statutory and regulatory filing support, and formal attestations required before system migration or reporting process transition. • Ensure compliant legacy processes are maintained until transition, including identification of changes to business activities or regulatory obligations, support for timely data and evidence requests, participation in control walkthroughs and remediation efforts, and confirmation of readiness for policy, process, system, and organizational handoffs.