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About the Role

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. We are seeking a highly skilled and intellectually curious Director, Finance Business Partner to support Mastercard Technology’s investment decisioning. This role serves as a key partner to the VP, Finance Business Partner and plays a critical part in driving high-quality business cases, advanced financial modeling, and data-driven insights that influence strategic technology outcomes.

Responsibilities

Build and own end-to-end financial models for technology investment business cases, ensuring clarity, structure, and ease of maintenance.
Translate technical inputs (capacity, architecture, engineering labor, infrastructure components, etc.) into robust financial outputs.
Conduct scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and line-item modeling to support investment trade-off decisions.
Provide support in preparing materials for steering committees (steercos), ensuring alignment across Finance, Technology, and Product stakeholders.
Partner with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and product leaders to understand technology drivers and convert them into financial implications.
Collaborate closely with Finance (FP&A, Controllership, Strategy) to ensure business cases align with broader financial goals and P&L impacts.
Gather, validate, and challenge assumptions from cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy and transparency.
Help build a repeatable, scalable framework for business case development, including standardized templates, modeling logic, and governance practices.
Maintain a quarterly refresh process for all models, ensuring assumptions, actuals, and forecasts remain current.
Drive consistency and traceability across inputs, assumptions, and outputs.
Identify key financial drivers, highlight risks/opportunities, and provide insight-rich recommendations.
Proactively challenge assumptions, uncover blind spots, and elevate the quality of decision-making.
Support forecasting and budgeting activities related to technology investments and run-the-business cost structures.
Identify opportunities to automate or streamline modeling, intake, and business case workflows.
Partner and provide support to implement tools that modernize the end-to-end investment process (Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, modeling engines, automation solutions).
Consistently push for efficiency, standardization, and data integrity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, or related field; MBA or CFA preferred.
Experience in FP&A, strategic finance, business case development, or technology finance.
Strong financial modeling and valuation capabilities; expert-level Excel skills.
Exposure to modeling automation tools or financial systems (Anaplan, Domo, Alteryx, Power BI, etc.)
Demonstrated experience partnering with Technology or Product teams and an appetite to learn technical details
Experience with cloud, infrastructure, software development lifecycle, or platform economics.
Strong communication and executive presence—able to frame issues, influence stakeholders, and drive alignment.
Ability to distill complex topics into simple insights tailored for senior audiences.
Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and rigor.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive in a fast-paced environment

Skills

Financial modeling
Valuation
Excel
Modeling automation tools
Financial systems
Cloud
Infrastructure
Software development lifecycle
Platform economics
Communication
Executive presence
Attention to detail
Rigor
Managing multiple priorities

Location

Purchase, New York
O'Fallon, Missouri

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, or related field
MBA or CFA preferred

Salary/Compensations

Purchase, New York: $163,000 - $269,000 USD
O'Fallon, Missouri: $142,000 - $234,000 USD

Benefits

Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
Flexible spending account and health savings account
Paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
25 days of vacation time
5 personal days
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
Deferred compensation for eligible roles
Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
Eligibility for tuition reimbursement

About the Company

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.
Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.

Equal Opportunity

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role.
In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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