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Title and Summary

Manager, Finance Business Partner

Overview

The Finance Business Partner assumes full responsibility for planning, operating performance and financial reporting for the respective market/cluster.

The role is a key partner to Area Manager of Southern Africa Cluster in developing business strategy for the cluster and plays an integral role in supporting, tracking, management and reporting of strategy execution plans.

Role:

• Drives aspects of financial reporting related needs and requirements (e.g.. budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, target setting) for Southern Africa Cluster

• Provides financial insights to leadership, leveraging an advanced understanding of budgeting, Long Range Plans and forecasting at detailed levels

• Embodies the Leading Beyond Finance initiative in a customer-facing role; directly interacts with external partners to negotiate new business opportunities with customers/vendors

• Partners with regions, business units, business partners and/or corporate to assist in developing, analyzing and validating new business opportunities. May support regional level payments by working with customers to analyze the integrity of payments and resolve billing inquiries

• Performs new opportunity assessments by providing counsel to the business around ongoing deals and Customer Business Agreements [CBA]

• Executes large, complex agreements, leveraging subject matter expertise [SME] for their designated area (e.g.. financial & data technology tools)

• Assists with strategy and process improvements to ensure alignment with market objectives; proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements

• Ensures compliance with ERM policies, may perform control testing

All about you:

Experiences:

• Track record building internal and external business partnerships; develops and leverages key relationships in order to understand the needs and objectives of stakeholders

• Successfully oversees the completion of global, complex management reporting (e.g.. monthly financial results, quarterly forecasting, annual budgets)

• Experience consulting and providing advice and feedback to the business on risk and opportunity considerations, leveraging advanced analytical techniques as well as outside trends and events

• Extensive 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; executes corporate cultural initiatives, enhancing the support of an ever-evolving environment to fulfill corporate goals and objectives

Experience/Education:

• Advanced financial experience, qualified CPA, Chartered Accountant or equivalent

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.