Director, Finance Business Partner, SEA

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

The Director, South-East Asia Finance (Finance Business Partner) will support the execution of the corporate strategy through strong P&L governance, delivered via strategic insights and formulation of division objectives, deal closure, ensuring smooth business operations and maintenance of strong internal controls.

1. Ensures that Finance is closely integrated with, and positively supports the business to maximize revenue, profitability and efficiency.
2. Supports strategic planning sessions and works extensively with the management team to ensure alignment of the process into the budget and forecasting cycles. This includes the development of priorities, execution plans, establishing revenue targets, and alignment of Division plans with cross-functional partners.
3. Manages division financial close and forecast, including analysis of key business drivers, expenses and timely communication of risks and opportunities.
4. Applies contemporary accounting techniques such as competitive pricing analysis, consumer spending trends, cost behavior analysis, operating budgeting, and value chain analysis to provide interpreted insights to direct management's attention to key strategic issues.
5. Provides leadership to the relevant business and finance functions to enhance their business acumen and financial know-how to align them to delivery of financial objectives for the division.
6. Provides finance support in the expansion of the business e.g. opening of new offices, new product and non-traditional customers business case development, etc.
7. High level of engagement required with regional and global functions to have high impact on cross-functional issues, and ensure alignment with regional and global direction.
8. Communicates corporate and regional policies and establishes review processes to ensure financial control and compliance and drive overall market compliance with SEC requirements as well as compliance with local statutory regulations, financial and taxation regimes in the region.

1. Relevant qualification in business, accounting and/or a related discipline, with good understanding of reporting, forecasting and budgeting techniques. Specialist knowledge in Management Reporting- Chartered Accountant or CPA with business partnership experience preferred.
2. Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with the ability to capture the essence of key insights across the market opportunities.
3. Broad based commercial awareness to manage risk versus return trade-offs.
4. In-depth understanding of all the commercial drivers impacting MasterCard's business in the division (current and emerging product lines, services and programs) to be able to conceptualize innovative incentive deal structures. Some of these dimensions are: market/consumer trends, commercial distribution channels, regulatory frameworks, overlay of proposal with existing incentive deals, member reporting and performance tracking, customer priorities and cardholder rewards proposition.
5. Results oriented and performance driven with a focus on excellence.
6. Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
7. Experience working in cross-functional teams.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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.