Vice President, Financial Planning

**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**

Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis

Our Purpose

Overview
- Responsible for developing & monitoring financials supporting our business strategy
- Responsible for budgeting and forecasting short/long-term plans, as well as preparing and analyzing internal and external financial reports
- Responsible for activities including managing risks and opportunities, monitoring the organization's revenue and expenses while considering macro-economic factors

**Responsibilities**:

- Plays a leading role in partnering with business units, regions, business partners and/or corporate to manage major aspects of financial reporting (e.g. budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, target setting)
- Communicates the key drivers behind the budget and forecast, linking the financial performance to strategy; develops quarterly operating reviews and CEO decks and communicates results to leadership
- Plays a leading role in partnering with business units, regions, business partners and/or corporate to develop strategies and identify revenue opportunities
- Works cross-functionally with business partners to ensure alignment with targets; performs variance analysis to deliver and articulate arguments in an effective manner
- Supporting regional Product & Innovation, Services, Marketing, Digital partnership, New Payment Platforms groups as finance business partner
- Drives the process improvement initiatives related to budgeting, forecasting, systems and other key areas; proactively improves upon efficiencies and streamlines the overarching process
- Responsible for the AP FP&A team under Business Finance Center CoE in India
- Manages a team, conducts goal setting and performance appraisal processes, coaches and develops employees as an organizational resource

Experiences
- Track record building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships in order to understand the diverse needs and objectives of various stakeholders
- Extensive experience modelling and performing predictive analytics to critically review and enhance complex financial and operational analysis and scenarios
- Managed a diverse, multi-functional finance organization
- Called upon to consult and provide advice and feedback to the business on risk and opportunity considerations, leveraging advanced analytical techniques as well as knowledge of outside trends and events
- Experience setting strategy for process improvement initiatives along with developing procedures for implementation
- Demonstrated successful oversight of the management and resolution of high-risk issues to ensure completeness and efficiency
- Successfully embodies change management; oversees corporate cultural initiatives, enhancing the support of an ever-evolving environment to fulfill corporate goals and objectives

**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.