Senior Analyst - Finance Business Partner Technology

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 Senior Analyst - Finance Business Partner Technology Job Description Summary Overview At Mastercard Technology, we’re working together to create a future that’s seamless and secure. We’re engineering critical connections that bring continents, customers and communities closer together. Our Technology strategy builds on our platforms to stay ahead of the market trends and maintain flexibility in an uncertain world. Our strategy is anchored on three pillars: where we run, what we run and how we run while ensuring we prioritize what matters. The Senior Analyst, Finance Business Partner will help connect our strategy to our financial objectives by supporting the Operations, Network, and Employee Digital Experience organization within Technology. This role will also support the Financial Planning and Analysis Technology Finance Team. This role will report to our Operations, Network, and Employee Digital Experience consolidations manager. Tasks include, but are not limited to, supporting monthly expense forecasting, month end close, variance analysis, staffing planning, reporting, and daily engagement with various stakeholder across the business, Finance, People and Capability, and Sourcing. This role will also provide an opportunity to rotate across various divisions within Technology to broaden exposure to multiple areas of the business. Role • Provide financial consolidations and financial planning support to technology finance • Support and potentially lead standardization efforts across technology finance • Provide divisional financial reporting, identify financial risks & opportunities, and provide guidance to achieve financial targets for assigned division(s) • Support the financial close process through the analysis of P&L variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals, key business drivers, and initiatives • Deliver monthly expense forecast across entire P&L for assigned division(s), and present financials to senior management • Maintain staffing plans and drive conversations with business on hiring timing, affordability, capacity, and tracking • Support negotiations, alongside business and sourcing, renewals or new contractual spend for 3rd party services or technology solutions • Contributes to special projects and performs various ad-hoc reporting or analysis as needed with a strong customer service focus. • Participates in development and implementation of process improvements to improve operational controls/efficiency and quality of output All About You • Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a financial analysis role • Advanced degree (MBA, Master’s) or professional certification (CMA, CPA) a plus • Must be able to adhere to the company’s hybrid in office work policy • Self-motivated with a track record of delivering success while operating in a team environment • Must be comfortable working with ambiguous processes in a fluid environment, managing multiple priorities and assignments concurrently • Strong communication skills and ability to interact, communicate, influence and navigate effectively with business teams • Strong relationship management and networking skills • Strong proficiency using MS suite of products Excel/Office/PowerPoint and enterprise ERP/Planning systems • Proficiency using Power BI, Power Automate, or low code tools a plus Mastercard is a