Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

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

Who is Mastercard?
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 realise 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.
Senior Analyst, Financial planning
We are currently hiring for a brilliant candidate to join the Marketing Team, supporting the UK & Ireland Division at Mastercard. Reporting to the Strategy, Planning and Operations Director, the Senior Marketing Analyst will play a key role in managing the Marketing Team’s (as well as the overall UK & I Team’s agenda) related to investment, planning and analysis. He or she will have the overall responsibility for all finance tasks and should be skilled in accounting, excel, and overall financial analytics.
Role
• Responsibility for all financial tasks and administration for the UKI Marketing and Communications team, including monthly/quarterly/annual analysis of variances against budget, forecast, prior year actuals, key business drivers and initiatives across all investments (e.g. purchase order management, monthly accruals review, forecasting, finance tool ownership and reporting)
• Responsibility for all end to end monthly, quarterly and annual forecast and close process, working cross-functionally across the marketing and communications team to ensure all information accurately logged, and collaboration with European and Global colleagues on variance alignment
• Manages and executes on financial requests from month to month, based on varying commitments across Europe, responding promptly to ad-hoc requests for information and analysis with a continual commitment to improving processes and efficiency
• Supports strategic annual and longer-term planning across the team by providing financial and business insights via robust tracking mechanisms with the view to guide future direction
• Supports the UKI marketing team with weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting working cross-functionally within the team and extended agency network, continuing to promote the UKI Marketing and Communications team as a centre of excellence.
Your experience
Bachelor's degree, preferably in economics, or other related fields
• ACCA qualification
• Strong planning and analytical skills with an eye for details
• Proven ability to learn business systems, including reporting tools (e.g. Oracle, Hyperion, ARIBA, Power BI, Tableau etc)
• Advanced and Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Excellent verbal and written skills required
Desired
• Similar work experience
• An interest/desire to learn across the broader marketing and communications function, including strategy and planning
About you
• Proactive, passionate and can-do attitude with a genuine interest to learn and grow
• Team oriented with the ability to communicate effectively and develop solid working relationships across multiple levels – including senior level – both internally and with external parties
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency and accuracy and to manage multiple activities in a short time-frame
• An eye for detail and a natural ability to act as a financial advisor and business partner to the Strategy, Planning & Ops Director and broader division.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Nor are such responsibilities, duties and skills static; changes will occur over time.

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.