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, Financial Planning & Analysis

About the Company:

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

Role Summary:

This Senior Analyst role plays a key role in driving Corporate FP&A automation, reporting standardization, and business intelligence initiatives. The role partners closely with stakeholders to deliver high-quality financial insights, strengthen planning and forecasting processes, and develop scalable analytical solutions that support informed decision-making. The position combines strong financial planning and analysis ownership with expertise in automation, data, and business intelligence tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, evaluate, and implement opportunities for automation and process efficiency, proactively anticipating the needs of internal customers and other stakeholders.
• Leverage BI and data visualization tools to deliver intuitive dashboards and self service analytics for stakeholders.
• Partner with finance systems and technology teams to enhance financial systems, data flows, and reporting architecture.
• Support the weekly, monthly, quarterly business driver forecasting and variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals. Review and provide thoughtful business driven commentary to respective management teams
• Identify and communicate driver-related revenue risks and opportunities and review and respond promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis
• Support Mastercard strategic plans by providing relevant financial analytics and business insights to key stakeholders, while developing robust tracking mechanisms
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, reviewing outputs and ensuring high quality standards.
• Manage multiple priorities across reporting cycles, strategic initiatives, and automation projects in a fast paced environment.
• Execute on financial process improvements by building and maintaining financial tools to perform analysis and modelling; review and create suggestions to financial systems

All About you:

• Educational qualification
• B.Tech with MBA Finance, Chartered Accountant or CPA
• Expertise in BI, analytics, and automation tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, or similar).
• Experience in financial roles with advanced knowledge and experience with all phases of financial planning and management
• Working knowledge 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.
• 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.