Mastercard India | Senior Accountant-2

About the role and responsibilities

• The Senior Accountant is responsible for managing expense recording and reconciling to enable accurate, reliable, and timely reporting of financial statements and other financial data.
• This individual will ensure that team targets and KPIs are met and/or exceeded and will support operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives.
• This position has certain responsibilities related to global process governance, primarily through the oversight of transaction processing and validation.
• The position also has responsibility for providing information support for and review of business analysis, as well as for first level interaction with other GBSC and business unit teams during issue identification and resolution.
• Prepare monthly journal entries in accordance with U.S. GAAP
• Monitor accounting for agreements for compliance with MasterCard's policies, procedures and related accounting literature
• Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations
• Adheres to the monthly and year end close schedules and perform monthly expense reporting
• Provides insight into expense accounting activity through preparation of management reporting, variance analysis, and ad-hoc analysis
• Performs ongoing documentation and procedures maintenance as required
• Works to continuously improve expense processes; recognizes opportunities for improvement and develops actions plans to implement them
• Represents GBSC on cross-functional project teams in support of initiatives with impact to the expense accounting process, identifies issues and develops recommendations for resolution, monitoring and reporting on progress
• Provides Expense customer service support to help resolve issues in a timely manner
• Drives front line interaction with other GBSC teams and internal business units in support of identification and resolution of processing issues.
• Participate in SOX testing and internal and external audits and respond to requests timely and appropriately

Experience and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• CA and/or MBA preferred
• Systems experience with Oracle, Reconciliation tools
• Prior related work experience, with expense accounting experience preferred. Knowledge of expense accounting and management processes and systems;
• Experience in shared services/internal service delivery role a plus
• Experience as a team member on project development/implementation teams a plus
• Solid understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and procedures
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Customer service skills (communication with customers and process partners)
• Excellent spreadsheet and word processing skills (Excel and Word preferred)

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