Senior Vice President, Business Finance Center

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 Vice President, Business Finance Center

Overview:
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.
About Business Finance Center (BFC)

BFC manages different aspects of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and commercial /business finance. FP&A includes management reporting encompassing budgeting and forecasting, strategic and customer level planning. This includes the management and execution of the corporate reporting and planning requirements, compiling and analyzing key metrices, identifying risk and opportunities, communicating information to relevant groups and recommending actions to improve financial performance. Business Development Finance (BDF) or commercial finance in the BFC supports the development, planning, implementation, and execution of the corporate strategy within the customer business agreement process to drive business primarily with issuers, acquirers and merchants.

We are seeking a dynamic and accomplished leader to lead the BFC. This senior leader will have senior FP&A experience, finance business partner experience, and extensive experience in establishing and leading a Finance Center of Excellence. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated expertise in driving operational excellence, implementing best-in-class financial processes, and fostering innovation within a high-performing finance organization.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading large, diverse teams and possess advanced technical expertise with modern financial systems and data analytics tools. This Sr. Management role is critical to our organization’s financial strategy, operations, and financial automation transformation initiatives.

Role
• Lead Mastercard’s Business Finance Center (BFC) and drive the adoption and optimization of advanced financial systems and analytics platforms across the organization
• Provide leadership and direction as we expand BFC capabilities and deliver financial results.
• Align the BFC teams in Gurgaon India and Bogota Colombia around a shared vision and drive a high-quality, value-added culture throughout that drives business decision making and builds close collaboration with the broader finance organization, fostering an inclusive and high-performance culture.
• Lead continuous reviews of existing processes to improve efficiency and identify AI-driven automation opportunities.
• Leverage expertise in Power BI, Python, and Alteryx to enhance financial modeling, reporting, and data-driven decision-making.
• Collaborate with cross-functional finance executive leadership to align financial initiatives with organizational goals and financial automation efforts.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, internal controls, and the highest standards of financial integrity.

All About You
• Has worked in Financial Planning & Analysis roles and appreciates the different data / analytics / insight needs – is able to leverage this experience to build/embed scalable processes. Also worked in Finance Business Partner roles is a plus.
• Demonstrated success leading large, diverse teams and developing high-performing talent.
• Exceptional strategic, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with a passion for leveraging technology to drive business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and build strong working relationships.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities, with proven experience influencing the executive and board levels.
• Strong business acumen, integrity, and a commitment to driving organizational excellence and innovation.
• Has managed a center of excellence organization, demonstrating the ability to establish best practices, drive process improvements, and foster innovation within the finance function is a plus.
• Deep technical proficiency with current financial systems and analytic tools, specifically Power BI, VBA, Alteryx and other data visualization tools a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, or a related field required; advanced degree (MBA, CPA, or equivalent) strongly preferred.

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.