Senior Accountant

MasterCard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard seeks a Senior Accountant – UK Controller to oversee the integrity of financial records for UK entities, liaise with auditors, and ensure statutory reporting compliance. The role supports monthly close, controls, and advisory activities for the European Controller group.

The ideal candidate has ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualifications, UK statutory knowledge, and strong Excel skills. Collaboration with tax, treasury and business teams is essential for risk management and accurate reporting.

Qualifications

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline.
• Experience with US GAAP and IFRS and UK statutory accounting and reporting.
• Experience liaising with external auditors and managing statutory audits.

Responsibilities

• Oversee integrity of financial records for UK entities with GBSC.
• Manage statutory account audits for UK entities and provide quarterly disclosures.
• Maintain relationships with auditors and internal stakeholders; communicate risks and opportunities.
• Assist with monthly financial statement monitoring and control processes.
• Support ad hoc tax and treasury activities including cash flow forecasts.

Skills

Analytical skills

Excellent communication

Excel (VBA skills)

Project management

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Excel (VBA)

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 Senior Accountant

Our Purpose We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Job Title Senior Accountant – UK Controller

Overview

• The position reports to the Manager, UK Controller, part of the Europe Regional Controller’s group.
• The Europe Controllers Group is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the US GAAP financials in partnership with the GBSC (Global Business Service Center), ensuring local statutory reporting compliance as well as providing support to the business teams across a number of areas including accounting and controls.
• The role will cover controller activities in the UK, including support for Mastercard Payment Gateway Services.
• The Controller activities include the following:
• Integrity of the Financials - The Controllers work in partnership with their local teams and the GBSC to ensure that the financial statements for their businesses are appropriate. This includes both management reporting and statutory filings.
• Business Advice is provided by the Controllers to ensure the proper accounting and reporting for transactions, customer deals, expenses and other areas.
• The Controllers play a critical role in the First Line of Defence in the Risk and Control Framework. Using the Operational Risk Management (ORM) methodologies and policy, the Controllers ensure that we have efficient processes with effective controls.

Role

• Oversee the integrity of the financial records of UK based legal entities in accordance with MasterCard policies in partnership with the GBSC.
• Manage the statutory account audits for UK based legal entities on a timely basis as well as provision of quarterly disclosure information to MasterCard Corporate Group;
• Maintain strong relationships with external parties (auditors and other third parties involved in the statutory reporting process).
• Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and be able to assess and communicate key risks and opportunities within the business.
• Assist with the preparation of the monthly financial statement monitoring control in preparation of the monthly review conducted by management.
• Maintain a strong internal control environment and improve internal controls where necessary to ensure a scalable infrastructure is in place to allow the company to operate and grow effectively while mitigating risk. Ensure continued alignment with MasterCard internal control procedures.
• Documentation of financial and business processes throughout the group of companies under scope of responsibility.
• Ad hoc support for Tax and treasury activities including preparation of cash flow forecasts and interim accounts as required.

Billing and Commercial Finance

• Perform complex maintenance tasks within the billing system (e.g. customer changes, pricing changes) to support business units and finance teams.
• Analyse billing data, research trends, identify issues and follow up on or identify resolutions.
• Respond to help desk inquiries within the Service Level Agreement [SLA] area of expertise, provide business knowledge and technical/functional support to business units.
• Identify opportunities for process optimization within area of responsibility; coordinate with leadership to implement improvements.
• Research and resolve production billing issues and incidents; coordinate meetings between Billing and Technology teams to resolve open issues.
• Maintain desktop procedures and adhere to controls around revenues and collections.
• Perform routine training to internal teams on billing related topics.

All About You

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
• Experience with US GAAP and IFRS and UK statutory accounting and reporting requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline
• Big 10 or Financial Statement Generation Provider experience preferred
• Experience of liaising with external auditors
• Experience assessing the effectiveness and oversight of operational and financial control implementation
• Experience leading process improvement initiatives along with developing procedures for implementation
• Sound project management and organizational skills
• Strong analytical skills and proficient with Excel ( VBA skills will be an advantage )
• Very good communicator
• Flexible and able to perform efficiently under tight deadlines
• Enthusiastic, hands on, proactive, able to work well independently and in teams
• Takes initiative and is result oriented

Corporate Security Responsibility

• 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.

Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.