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About the Role
The Europe Controllers Group is responsible for ensuring the integrity of US GAAP financials in partnership with the GBSC, ensuring local statutory reporting compliance, and providing support to business teams. This role will cover controller activities in the UK, including support for Mastercard Payment Gateway Services.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the integrity of the financial records of UK based legal entities in accordance with MasterCard policies in partnership with the GBSC.
- Manage the statutory account audits for UK based legal entities on a timely basis as well as provision of quarterly disclosure information to MasterCard Corporate Group.
- Maintain strong relationships with external parties (auditors and other third parties involved in the statutory reporting process).
- Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and be able to assess and communicate key risks and opportunities within the business.
- Assist with the preparation of the monthly financial statement monitoring control in preparation of the monthly review conducted by management.
- Maintain a strong internal control environment and improve internal controls where necessary to ensure a scalable infrastructure is in place to allow the company to operate and grow effectively while mitigating risk.
- Ensure continued alignment with MasterCard internal control procedures.
- Documentation of financial and business processes throughout the group of companies under scope of responsibility.
- Ad hoc support for Tax and treasury activities including preparation of cash flow forecasts and interim accounts as required.
- Perform complex maintenance tasks within the billing system (e.g. customer changes, pricing changes) to support business units and finance teams.
- Analyze billing data, research trends, identify issues and follow up on or identify resolutions.
- Respond to help desk inquiries within the Service Level Agreement [SLA] area of expertise, provide business knowledge and technical/functional support to business units.
- Identify opportunities for process optimization within area of responsibility; coordinate with leadership to implement improvements.
- Research and resolve production billing issues and incidents; coordinate meetings between Billing and Technology teams to resolve open issues.
- Maintain desktop procedures and adhere to controls around revenues and collections.
- Perform routine training to internal teams on billing related topics.
Requirements
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified
- Experience with US GAAP and IFRS and UK statutory accounting and reporting requirements.
- Big 10 or Financial Statement Generation Provider experience preferred
- Experience of liaising with external auditors
- Experience assessing the effectiveness and oversight of operational and financial control implementation
- Experience leading process improvement initiatives along with developing procedures for implementation
- Sound project management and organizational skills
- Proficient with Excel ( VBA skills will be an advantage )
- Very good communicator
- Flexible and able to perform efficiently under tight deadlines
- Enthusiastic, hands on, proactive, able to work well independently and in teams
- Takes initiative and is result oriented
- 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
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
Skills
- US GAAP
- IFRS
- UK statutory accounting
- UK statutory reporting
- Financial statement generation
- Operational control implementation
- Financial control implementation
- Process improvement
- Project management
- Organizational skills
- Analytical skills
- Excel
- VBA
- Communication
- Billing system maintenance
- Billing data analysis
- Billing issue resolution
- Billing process optimization
- Billing training
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline
About the Company
- Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide.
- We work 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.
- We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences.
- We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.