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About the Role

The Business Leader, Regional Finance will be a strategic value-added business partner supporting the Canadian market, leading the financial planning and analysis function within the region. This role is key in strategy development, financial and performance management, and data-driven decision support.

Responsibilities

• Lead the financial planning and reporting process to ensure presentation through a strategic lens.
• Support objective setting to create alignment of objectives across the organization.
• Deal design, development and negotiation to ensure structuring of sound business cases to support business growth.
• Continue to improve in-region and corporate financial analysis and reporting, providing enhanced analytics and data-driven decision support.
• Oversee the development and reporting analytics for Key Performance Indicators: financial, market share, merchant penetration and category analysis.
• Work with Product, Marketing, Issuing and Acquiring teams to address data analytics needs.
• Focus on working with the Global Products & Solutions organization to further develop product profitability and business casing capabilities.
• Lead the management reporting, including monthly financial results, quarterly forecasting, and annual budgeting.
• Develop and manage relationships in a complex matrixed organization with business partners at multiple career levels.
• Enhance business/account manager's business acumen, financial know-how, and understanding of business case modeling/structuring sound business cases to support business growth.

Requirements

• Have business planning experience.
• Have developed financial models to support business strategies.
• Have experience as a financial lead in a matrixed global organization, presenting complex financial information to senior management.

Skills

• Excellent understanding of reporting, forecasting and budgeting techniques.
• Broad understanding of different finance disciplines.
• Strong quantitative skills.
• Expert in PC skills – Excel, PowerPoint, Hyperion/Oracle.
• Good commercial sense/business acumen.
• Strategic thinker.
• Confidence and experience to challenge ideas at all levels.
• Executive presence.
• Superior communications, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with and influence people across a matrixed organization at all levels.
• Ambitious, highly driven and motivated.
• People management experience.

Location

• Toronto, Canada

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Director

Education Level

• Relevant qualification in business, accounting and/or a related discipline - accounting designation or MBA preferred.

Salary/Compensations

• Toronto, Canada: $138,000 - $221,000 CAD

Benefits

• May be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program.

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.

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.
• 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.