Manager, Deal Management

Mastercard; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard in India is seeking a Manager, Deal Management to lead complex deal structuring and financial analysis across India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives. You will collaborate with Account Managers, BD, and Finance to optimize profitability and ensure compliance from deal initiation to closure.

The role emphasizes rigorous financial modeling, stakeholder persuasion, and cross-functional coordination to drive strategic opportunities with issuers, acquirers and merchants.

Qualifications

• Deal structuring experience with financial modeling and profitability analysis
• Strong analytical mindset with comfort in ROI/NPV benchmarks
• Ability to coordinate with multiple stakeholders including sales, finance, and legal
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills across diverse teams

Responsibilities

• Support the SOA sub-region in structuring complex deals to ensure profitability for Mastercard
• Perform rigorous reviews, scenario analyses, and negotiations on business cases
• Guide the legal team on deal structures and final clearance of documentation
• Ensure compliance with local regulations and internal policies for deals
• Provide financial insights to business teams and monitor performance of strategic deals
• Contribute to regional deal management projects and data integrity reporting

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 Manager, Deal Management

Overview

Job Description Summary

• Business Development Finance supports the development, planning, implementation, and execution of the corporate strategy within the customer business agreement process to drive business primarily with issuers, acquirers and merchants.
• The Manager role has the primary responsibility of supporting business development finance and business units in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives (SOA sub-region) to build profitable and protected deals for Mastercard by playing an active advisory role in business, strategic and financial related projects.

3 questions about who would best fit for this role:

• Are you intuitive with numbers?
• Are you perseverant and able to cope with unexpected and multiple demands?
• Are you confident interacting with a variety of stakeholders including Account Managers, Business Development, Finance Management, and able to persuade, motivate and influence others effectively?

About The Role

• Deal Structuring – Support the SOA sub-region division and assist account / BD managers in complex business deals for business opportunities for new and Existing customer ensuring commercial profitability for Mastercard, with involvement from initiation to closure of the deal. Conduct regular review of live deals with account managers and leadership team to highlight concerns and progress deals to achieve approvals. Specific geographies to be supported by this role include India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives and regional deals lead by AP business team.
• Performs rigorous reviews, negotiations, and scenario analysis iterations on business cases to assess the risk versus return tradeoffs. Work and negotiate with business owners to improve deal structures where appropriate. Assertiveness required to convince account teams to sell harder to their customers. Conduct “benchmark analysis” on assumptions in all business cases, and “reality check” on the ROIs, NPVs, for contracts entered with our customers.
• Provides guidance to legal department to assist in understanding deal structures and business dynamics, and final clearance of legal documentation.
• Communicates corporate and regional policies; establishes review processes to ensure financial control and compliance and to drive overall market compliance and compliance of deals with local statutory regulations and financial regimes in the division.
• Builds capabilities within the business to enhance their financial acumen and know-how, understanding of business case modeling and processes, financial implications of their decisions/actions, and to align them to delivery of financial objectives for the division.
• Requires individual to be creative and entrepreneurial, managing risks with innovation, embracing the concept of value creation, in the face of fierce competition, customer choice and new technology.
• Extended Business Support – Closely work with business teams in providing insights and financial support to:
• develop and monitor performance of our strategic deals and other growth opportunities
• facilitate and identify new pricing initiatives / structuring opportunities
• Support and drive regional Deal Management projects and initiatives, both in SOA division and across AP region
• Champion regional reporting for Deal Management - Collaborate and work closely with COE to ensure data integrity as well as submission by deadline without default

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.