Mastercard
Singapore
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.
Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (West Southeast Asia)
Overview
The Manager, FP&A (West South East Asia) position is responsible for supporting the West South East Asia division, spanning 5 countries, and plays a key role in:
• Managing and executing financial planning, forecasting and reporting requirements through consolidation of analyst, finance business partner and business team inputs.
• Identifying opportunities to automate and optimise financial processes, data management and reporting to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Enhancing financial reporting and analytics to support strategic business decision-making.
This position reports to the Division Finance Officer with the key objective of supporting execution of the corporate strategy through strong P&L governance and strategic insights. The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration across both finance and business teams and provides exposure across a complex multi-country business environment.
The ideal candidate will have a solid background in finance, technology, and process improvement, with experience supporting reporting, planning and automation initiatives.
Role
• Manage division financial close and forecast processes through analysis of variances against budget, forecasts, prior year actuals, key business drivers and initiatives. Review and provide thoughtful, business-driven commentary, with timely communication of risks and opportunities.
• Manage, develop and enhance standardised financial reporting packages and business metrics/KPIs that support decision-making and business performance monitoring.
• Support strategic planning sessions and development of presentations and analysis for business reviews, as well as ad hoc presentations for senior leadership.
• Partner with finance business partners to ensure alignment throughout budget and forecasting cycles. This includes development and tracking of priorities, execution plans and revenue targets to ensure alignment with cross-functional partners.
• Support financial process improvements through the development and maintenance of financial tools, reporting solutions and analytical models, including training and support for users. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for automation and more efficient ways of working.
• Demonstrate a high level of engagement with regional and global functions to influence cross-functional initiatives and ensure alignment with regional and global priorities.
All About You
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics and/or a related discipline, with demonstrated experience in FP&A, financial systems or similar roles preferred.
• Technical skills in Excel, VBA and data processing software (e.g. Alteryx), with working knowledge of financial systems and applications (e.g. Hyperion, Oracle).
• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Tableau and Power BI preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse complex data, identify trends and translate findings into meaningful business insights.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Self-motivated individual with an interest in understanding the latest developments in the payments sector.
• Results-oriented and performance-driven with a focus on excellence.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across finance, business and cross-functional teams.
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: