Senior Finance Business Partner Analyst

Mastercard India Services Pvt Ltd; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard India Services Pvt Ltd seeks a Senior Analyst, Finance Business Partner to support FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and regional reporting. The role involves close collaboration with RHQ, Divisions, and Corporate to drive accurate financial planning.

The ideal candidate has CA/CPA/MBA Finance, strong analytical skills, and experience with Hyperion and Oracle. You will contribute to strategic planning in a fast-paced environment while delivering precise financial insights.

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant or CPA or MBA Finance is required.
• Experience in financial planning and management across all phases.
• Good knowledge of BI tools and financial systems (Hyperion and Oracle).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the financial close process with variance analysis vs budget/forecasts.
• Develop regional revenue forecasts and budgets; maintain timely planning processes.
• Coordinate engagement between RHQ, Divisions, Corporate and functional groups.
• Assist in annual business plans and budget development.
• Ensure accurate data uploads into Hyperion for forecasting and reporting.
• Prepare management reporting packages and financial presentations for Regional Management and Corporate.
• Identify risks and opportunities and respond to ad-hoc information requests.
• Improve regional and corporate financial analysis and reporting processes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Strategic thinking

Relationship management

Education

Chartered Accountant or CPA or MBA Finance

Tools

Hyperion

Oracle

Job description

Senior Analyst, Finance Business Partner

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 PartnerWho is Mastercard : 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.

Overview

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 Sr Analyst position is responsible across a broad spectrum of strategic processes and initiatives while managing and executing the corporate reporting and planning requirements

Role

• Support the financial close process through the analysis of variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals, key business drivers and initiatives.
• Implement and maintain processes to ensure effective and timely generation of regional revenue forecasts and budgets.
• Develop engagement and reporting processes between RHQ, Divisions, Corporate and various functional groups.
• Support the development of the business plans and work to develop the annual plan and budget process.
• Also be responsible for incorporating accurate data upload into Hyperion budgeting and forecasting tool as well as for the compilation, timely completion and submission of the Preliminary Budget Review Template and CEO Review Template
• Generate pertinent performance information and analysis on key business drivers of revenue, expense, contra etc.
• Identify and communicate risks and opportunities.
• Support Preparation of management reporting packages and financial presentations for Regional Management, Corporate and other ad-hoc business reviews.
• Respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis.
• Develops and/or continues improve in-region and corporate financial analysis and reporting.
• Collaborate with Regional Business Development team to include the analysis of underpinning assumptions in the management reporting process.
• Provide leadership and guidance to Divisional Finance teams on use of Hyperion for revenue forecasting.
• Apply strategic understanding of business dynamics in regional markets and competitive forces in driving creative responses and formulating mitigating strategies.
• Support continuous reviews of existing processes to assess operational efficiency and development and implementation of process improvements to ensure processes meet present and anticipated needs of internal customers, members, and other stakeholders

All About you

• Educational qualification -Chartered Accountant or CPA or MBA Finance
• Experience in 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 problem solving skills
• Self-motivated with a proven track record of delivering success while operating in a team environment.
• 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
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong strategic thinking and business understanding.
• Strong relationship management and networking skills.
• High intellect with good commercial acumen and a creative approach to problem solving.
• Ambitious, highly driven and motivated.
• Maturity to challenge ideas and balance opportunities and threats.

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.

Experience Level Senior Level