Manager, Accounting

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 Manager, Accounting Overview: The Rebates and Incentives (R&I), Manager of Accounting within the Corporate Controllers group work with others within our R&I team, serving as an advisor and liaison with regional controllership, shared services center, other key stakeholders and external auditors. The R&I, Manager provides operational support and accounting guidance for customer business agreements, ensuring appropriate R&I policies are followed and that a strong internal control environment is maintained both regionally and centrally. In addition, the R&I, manager possesses strong communication skills to engage teams to optimize and even transform the current processes and controls. A key part of the role is to be able to influence positive change through dialogue partnership with senior management, peers, and stakeholders (e.g. GBSC, Regional Controllers). Role: • Oversight of the Global R&I processes driving issue resolution & relationship management with the regions, business units, and accounting shared service center. • Provide ongoing support to regional controllership, shared services center and other key stakeholders on R&I accounting issues. • Lead in the decision-making process by providing accounting guidance for business-related R&I transactions. • Perform and document accounting research for new and non-routine transactions to determine US GAAP treatment. • Advise and interact with senior management on R&I transactions, including preparation of various quarterly deliverables and providing updates of R&I activity. • Manage quarterly pre-close R&I meetings with both regions and shared services center. • Review reporting deliverables to ensure compliance with SEC requirements. • Transform current state by identifying: (1) efficiencies and solutions to enhance processes, (2) opportunities to further automate and streamline processes and (3) standardized R&I processes to enable risk-based approaches around the review and analysis of R&I activity; ensuring processes are sustainable for future growth of the business globally. • Oversee compliance activities, as needed (e.g.. Mastercard policies, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Operational Risk Management (ORM)) and communicates potential exposures on a timely manner. • Interact with external auditors regarding the application of US GAAP for R&I related transactions and disclosures. All About You: • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or related discipline, Certified Public Accountant or Chartered Accountant or equivalent. • Manager or equivalent experience at a public accounting firm or similar technical accounting experience in a large public company. • Strong general accounting knowledge including US GAAP and proficient with researching accounting literature. • Strong communication skills, with an emphasis on financial and business acumen. • Experience assessing the effectiveness and oversight of operational and financial control implementation; ensures compliance within a diverse organization. • Experience setting plan for process improvement initiatives along with developing procedures for implementation. • Experience building collaborative working relationships with stakeholders at the global/regional, local or corporate level. • The ideal candidate is fast-paced, highly analytical and detail-oriented who demonstrates a sense of urgency and knowledge and experience with finance functions. •