Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Mastercard; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Manager for Financial Planning & Analysis to lead the close, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning across the organization. You will partner with business leaders to provide actionable insights and robust financial analytics.

This role requires CA/CPA/MBA Finance, strong BI and financial systems experience (Hyperion, Oracle), and the ability to deliver accurate, timely reporting in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• CA/CPA/MBA Finance required.
• Experience in financial planning and management across budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the financial close process and provide business commentary.
• Drive annual planning, budgeting, forecasts, and risks & opportunities.
• Develop standardized financial reporting and KPI packs for leadership.
• Create presentations for QBRs and operational reviews.
• Provide financial analytics to guiding strategic plans and business insight.
• Identify automation opportunities and improve financial processes.
• Mentor and develop the FP&A team.

Education

Chartered Accountant or CPA or MBA Finance

Tools

Hyperion

Oracle

BI tools

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build asustainableeconomy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactionssecure, 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, Financial Planning & Analysis

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
The Financial Planning & Analysis function manages all aspects of management reporting encompassing budgeting and forecasting, strategic and customer planning. This includes the management and execution of the corporate reporting and planning requirements
This Manger position is responsible across a broad spectrum of strategic processes and initiatives while managing and executing the corporate reporting and planning requirements

Role

• Lead the financial close process through the analysis of variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals, key business drivers and initiatives. Review and provide thoughtful business driven commentary to respective management teams
• Drive the development of the annual plan/budget, forecast and opportunities & risks. Also be responsible for ensuring accurate data upload into Hyperion budgeting and forecasting tool
• Manage, develop and create standardized financial reporting packages that will help drive and support the business, inclusive of business metrics/KPIs. Also identify and communicate revenue risks and opportunities and review and respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis
• Develop presentations for quarterly business reviews (QBRs) and quarterly operating reviews (QORs), as well as ad hoc presentation
• Drive Mastercard strategic plans by providing relevant financial analytics and business insights to key stakeholders, while developing robust tracking mechanisms
• Apply strategic understanding of business dynamics and competitive forces in different markets and supporting business to formulate mitigating strategies
• Execute on financial process improvements by building and maintaining financial tools to perform analysis and modeling; review and create suggestions to financial systems
• Investigate and create opportunities for automation and more efficient methods of creation and delivery anticipating needs of internal customers, members and other stakeholders
• Lead special projects as they arise
• Guide and Mentor the team

All About You

• Educational qualification - Chartered Accountant or CPA or MBA Finance
• Experience in varied financial roles with advanced knowledge and experience with all phases of financial planning and management
• Good knowledge of Business Intelligence tools and experience with financial systems/applications (e.g. Hyperion and Oracle)
• Good understanding of reporting, forecasting and budgeting techniques.
• Strong analytical and proven problem solving skills
• Self-motivated with a proven track record of delivering success while operating in a team environment.
• Good influencing skills, she/he must be able to communicate and present to the management team, she/he must also be persuasive with a considerate but firm touch
• Good work ethics, hands-on, meticulous, but also be able to step back and see the bigger strategic picture.
• Strong relationship management and networking skills.
• Maturity to challenge ideas and balance opportunities and threats.
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency and accuracy
• Ability to manage multiple activities of different nature in a condensed timeframe

As Mastercard is a global company, we sometimes have team members from outside of the location listed on this posting that are reviewing submitted applications.

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.