Director, Financial Planning & Analysis | London, UK

Mastercard, Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job description

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

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Overview
The FP&A Director has a broad remit across APEMEA. The function is responsible for providing finance support to the APEMEA CFO and other functional leads across the APEMEA Regions. In addition, the role will take on meaningful projects at the APEMEA Finance level.

Role

1. Work with APEMEA CFO, Region FP&A Leads and business partners in APEMEA to build and execute on strategy for the business.
2. Manage delivery of a high quality and insightful end-to-end month end and financial planning and forecasting process for APEMEA Markets. Focused across revenue, contra and expenses, including communications, timetables, data requirements & modelling.
3. Create a clear and coherent story of performance and actions for use within the business unit and at a group level.
4. Communicate key drivers behind the budget and forecast to APEMEA leadership, linking the financial performance to strategy.
5. Track risks & opportunities, identifying what options are available to deliver the plan each month.
6. Work cross-functionally with business partners to ensure alignment with targets; perform variance analysis to deliver and articulate arguments in an effective manner.
7. Prepare senior management presentations such as Quarterly Operating Reviews (QOR), Monthly Performance & Forecast Reviews and other ad-hoc presentations.
8. Analyse current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales and expenses.
9. Taking personal accountability to drive and own business performance through insight, challenge and understanding of the business.
10. Act as the main point of interaction between APEMEA and corporate finance.
11. Build strong and positive relationships with Regional APEMEA, Vertical Finance teams and the BFC, ensuring APEMEA objectives are met and translate business assumptions into financial data.
12. Develop and build management reporting and insight for the Senior Management Team for presentation by Finance leaders.
13. Drive business process improvement initiatives by building and maintaining financial tools to perform analysis and modelling; review and create suggestions to Region plans.
14. Reports to the APEMEA VP FP&A.

All About You:

1. Bachelor's Degree in finance or accounting; (MBA/ACCA/ACA/CFA/CIMA preferred).
2. Strong analytical skills, commercial mindset, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
3. Proactive with the ability to identify issues before they develop into problems; proactively resolving issues directly or through escalation to appropriate partners.
4. Strong sense of ownership and able to deliver results within tight deadlines.
5. Strong interpersonal & communication skills.
6. Adept at building relationships with a broad set of colleagues.
7. Strong contributor who thrives in a collaborative team environment, but comfortable with making independent thought-out decisions.
8. Track record of driving process and systems improvements.
9. Successfully embodies change management.
10. Advanced Microsoft Office skills, Oracle, Hyperion and Tableau.

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.