Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis, EEMEA Expenses

Our Purpose

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Title and Summary

Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis, EEMEA Expenses

Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis, EEMEA Expenses

Reports to: Director – Financial Planning & Analysis, EEMEA

Key Relationships:

• Region: Business & Product Leads, Leadership Teams; Regional and Divisional Finance teams along with co-ordination with controllership, tax and legal teams
• Global: APEMEA Finance, Global Finance along with co-ordination with Worldwide Finance – Controllership, Tax, GBSC etc.

Overview:

• The FP&A function manages all aspects of management reporting encompassing budgeting and forecasting, strategic planning, resolution of bad debt/write-off and assists stakeholders on finance related ad-hoc queries for EEMEA region & markets under it.
• This position is responsible for supporting Director, FP&A across a broad spectrum of strategic processes and initiatives while managing and executing the corporate reporting and planning requirements.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support the financial close process for the EEMEA Operating expenses 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
• Collaborate with stakeholders from different functions and geographies for various deliverables and analysis. Partner with different functions such as Division finance, P&C, Audit, Tax, Controllers, etc. to identify any risk or opportunity in their budget.
• 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 to APEMEA.
• Closely monitoring the pre close process to identify any anomaly in the accruals booked for any corporate finance functions, highlighting to the team, and submitting a remedy ticket to correct or reclass any such deviations.
• Execute on financial process improvements by building and maintaining financial tools to perform analysis and modelling; 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
• Generate pertinent performance information and analysis on key business drivers of expense etc. including analysis of expense and headcount at a cost centre level. Identify and communicate risks and opportunities in a timely manner.
• Respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis. Develops and/or continues improve in-region and corporate financial analysis and reporting.

Experience/Education:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or MBA (CA/CPA/MBA Finance), Finance or analysis with advanced knowledge and experience with all phases of financial planning and management. 4-5 years of relevant work experience.
• Good knowledge of Business Intelligence tools and experience with financial systems/applications (e.g. Hyperion and Oracle).
• Strong analytical and proven 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 and dealing with senior stakeholders.

Core Competencies and Skills:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Broad understanding of different areas of Finance.
• Good understanding of reporting, forecasting and budgeting techniques.
• Strong strategic thinking and business understanding.
• Strong relationship management and networking skills.

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.