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 Accountant

Overview:

• Are you motivated to work in a team that provides global services?
• Do you like to simplify, standardize, and transform existing processes?
  The candidate will be part of the Global Business Service Center and will be responsible for delivering timely and accurate accounting services to our worldwide business unit(s) in the select areas of Net Revenue viz. revenue & contra revenue billing process, month-end close, rebate and incentive payment validation, processing & approvals.
  Role:
• Review executed contracts and create customers, deals and incentives in the Mastercard Contra Revenue System (CRS)
• Accomplish timely, accurate close of the CRS sub ledger and Oracle general ledger including creation and review of journal entries
• Identify and prepare journal entries through the analysis of close results, trends and actual to budget/forecast
• Perform detailed review of rebate and incentive payment requests including contract review and validation of driver data to various internal systems
• Recommend, develop and implement process improvements to improve accounting operational efficiency, quality of output and optimize synergies
• Prepare and review general ledger account reconciliations
• Perform detailed account analyses; investigate and resolve complex issues
• Partner with financial systems regarding CRS requirements, data, reporting, and functionality
• Support SOX control compliance
• Provide overall support and customer service to business partners
• Other duties as required

All About You:

• Education/Certification
• Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting or Finance
• Chartered Accountants or MBA in Finance, preferred
• Knowledge/Experience/Skills
• Knowledge of US GAAP and current accounting concepts
• Prior revenue, contra revenue, and/or contract management experience, preferred
• Minimum 5 years of progressive accounting experience preferably in a large, global environment
• Ability to deliver accurate results in a fast-paced environment with attention to deadline constraints, excellent analytical, planning and organization skills
• Robust understanding of financial/ERP systems, preferably direct experience with Oracle
• Customer service oriented with the ability to communicate effectively and develop solid working relationships across multiple levels and organization boundaries

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.