Mastercard India | Manager, Accounting - PM

About the role and responsibilities

• Perform and oversee complex accounting activities, including sub‑ledger accounting (SLA) and preparation of high‑level financial statements, in compliance with applicable accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and reporting guidelines.
• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and timely close of accounting transactions across settlement accounting, accounts receivable, fixed assets, and other operational areas.
• Analyze financial performance, identify trends, and exercise sound judgment in assessing complex accounting and reporting matters.
• Prepare and review budgets, financial reports, and management reporting deliverables, and provide insights to senior leadership to support informed decision‑making.
• Maintain effective oversight and control frameworks across accounting and business processes to support financial integrity.
• Support SOX compliance, including execution of key controls, assessment of control effectiveness, and recommendations for remediation or control enhancements.
• Ensure readiness for and actively support internal and external audits, including auditor interactions, documentation support, and timely issue resolution.
• Independently assess the complexity of issues, determine appropriate accounting treatment, escalate when required, and provide well‑reasoned recommendations to leadership.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and efficiencies, and assist with the implementation of enhancements to strengthen accuracy, controls, and cycle times.
• Support and contribute to the resolution of accounting issues, gaining exposure to increasingly complex matters over time.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to business stakeholders, applying a client‑service mindset to all deliverables.
• Proactively build and maintain strong relationships with business partners to ensure alignment on accounting outcomes and expectations.
• Process Improvement & Issue Resolution

Experience and qualifications

• Demonstrates strong technical accounting knowledge, including accounting principles, financial statements, and financial reporting requirements, with a consistent track record of timely and accurate delivery.
• Experience reviewing and analyzing accounting work to ensure appropriate accounting treatment and compliance with standards.
• Experience implementing and suggesting process improvements within finance and accounting operations.
• Experience executing internal controls, evaluating their effectiveness, and recommending enhancements to address identified risks.
• Ability to independently handle routine issues and progressively engage in the resolution of more complex accounting matters.
• Demonstrated capability to prepare, produce, and review internal and external financial reports of moderate complexity.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a proactive approach to stakeholder engagement and collaboration and had lead team size of 5+ FTs.

Mastercard

Mastercard is a global payments technology company that runs one of the world's largest card payment networks, connecting consumers, merchants, banks and governments in more than 200 countries and territories. It does not issue cards or lend money itself: it provides the network, processing, security and data services that let banks and other partners offer credit, debit, prepaid and digital payment products. Its work also covers fraud prevention and cybersecurity, digital identity, open banking, and data-led advisory services for businesses and governments.

Mastercard has worked in India for more than four decades. It opened its first India technology hub in Pune in 2014, and Pune is now its largest workforce in a single city anywhere in the world; the company also has offices in Gurugram, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Vadodara. Teams in India work on software, data and cybersecurity, and also in finance, franchise and network services, product management and the Advisors & Consulting Services practice, which gives clients strategy, analytics and marketing advice. Finance, revenue assurance, consulting and analytics roles here can suit CA, CFA, CMA, MBA (Finance) and commerce profiles.

• Industry: Payments technology — global card payment network, payment security and data services
• Headquarters: Purchase, New York, USA
• In India: Offices in Pune, Gurugram, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Vadodara