Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions

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, Mergers and Acquisitions The Vice President of Corporate Development for Europe will be based in London and will report into the Senior Vice President, Global Head of Corporate Development. This position is responsible for the identification, development and execution strategic inorganic opportunities across all European region related to potential equity investments, acquisitions and joint ventures. The role requires a big picture thinker able to fully connect with the payment and Fintech industry environment and see lateral opportunities across geographies and industries. The candidate should be able to understand and synthesize market and industry insight, identify competitive trends and partnership opportunities. The role is also critical in fostering the cross functional coordination to support successful related investment and acquisition execution. It requires navigating across Mastercard to gather key pieces of information cross functionally and promote potential strategic investment opportunities. Key Accountabilities of the Role: • Develop the European Corporate Development pipeline with Regional President, Division Presidents, Regional Product, Market Development • Work with division and in-country leaderships teams to develop areas of opportunities and create Target Investment Profiles based on regional product and specific country specific strategies, providing guidance, expertise, and challenge • Generate Investment Rationales: Partner with global business units, regional product & sales executives to assess which of their growth strategies are potentially better executed via strategic investments and/or acquisitions. The output of this work is geographic / product strategy matrix, investment target profiles, capability heat maps on needs which outline existing organic capabilities and gaps • Market Engagement: Develop and maintain active engagement with relevant market players across the region among PE / VC investors, investment banks and other sources to ensure full market visibility. • Target Investment Profile Development & Execution: Converting inorganic growth objectives into optimal target investment profiles, source and screen investment candidates against those profiles and prioritize related deal execution. • Investment Business Case Building: Structure and articulate end-to-end analysis (strategic and financial) of prioritized target investments. Apply consulting-type frameworks and tools to develop robust and concise analysis and recommendations. • Selective Leadership of Global Product Areas: In addition to European responsibilities, the role will selectively lead global product area initiatives and drive select strategic corporate development opportunities • Lead Equity Investment, Acquisition and JV Transactions: Pursue and structure transactions including negotiating term sheets, and letters of intent directly with potential targets. Develop full standalone valuation, synergy and accretion / dilution analyses. Lead deal approval presentations / discussions with relevant deal committees and C-suite • Cross Functional Coordination: Develop deep understanding of our products and solutions and geographic markets to advance the identification of relevant and impactful investment or acquisition opportunities. • Cross Team Transaction Execution: Based on the nature of the specific investment or acquisition, lead or support the related deal