Mastercard India | Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

About the role and responsibilities

• Senior Analyst, Revenue Assurance, Financial Planning and Analysis
• About Mastercard?
• The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function manages all aspects of management reporting encompassing budgeting and forecasting, strategic and customer planning. This includes the management and execution of the corporate reporting and planning requirements.
• Business Finance Centre provides FP&A expertise to the organization by compiling and analysing metrics, identifying trends and problems, communicating information to relevant groups, and recommending actions to improve financial performance.
• Revenue Assurance (RA) is a function within Finance responsible for strengthening revenue controls, identifying billing opportunities, and minimizing revenue leakage across QMR (Quarterly Mastercard Reported), global billing processes, and billing reviews of revenue streams across core and services.
• The role focuses on ensuring billing accuracy, driving revenue recovery, and partnering with cross-functional teams to enhance revenue integrity and controls.
• This position will report to Director, Revenue Assurance, and is responsible for driving data analytics excellence for Global Corporate Revenue assurance team.
• Lead and own revenue assurance review projects to identify billing leakages and ensure billing completeness and accuracy.
• Working with billing on understanding rules, determining if there are any billing issues, working through the back billing, and working through system fixes
• Perform in-depth analysis of data systems and process flows to identify and resolve root causes of revenue leakage. Conduct rigorous data analysis from Mastercard databases to identify, research, and resolve revenue leakage; synthesize findings into actional insights and recommendations
• Understand and validate billing logic by recreating billing from core systems and comparing it with actual billed amounts.
• To work with the pricing teams to see any gaps in pricing or understanding the intent of pricing to determine if we are billing on what we intended to bill on.
• Support risk-based prioritization plans for revenue stream reviews based on materiality, business inputs, and new initiatives
• Perform financial analysis to estimate revenue impact at customer and country levels and support recovery decisions.
• Collaborate with Finance, Product, and GBSC teams to improve billing accuracy, implement fixes, and execute back-billing.
• Communicate identified revenue leakage opportunities, recovery actions/waivers to Regional Finance team and senior stakeholders.
• Act as an active member for all billing related matters and ensure alignment with corporate Revenue Assurance strategies.
• Partner cross-functionally with internal stakeholders such as Finance, Product, GBSC, etc., to develop analytical toolkit that drives efficiency on issue detection for key initiatives and focuses across corporate and regions

Experience and qualifications

• CA/MBA (Finance preferred); CPA/CFA certification is an added advantage.
• Strong proficiency in database management, Microsoft Office applications, and data analytics.
• Demonstrated success in Revenue Assurance, with the ability to thrive in project-based roles requiring self-initiative and self-motivation.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to simplify and articulate complex issues effectively.
• Knowledge on tools like Alteryx, Tableau , Hyperion etc.
• Structured, proactive problem-solver with a strong focus on process improvement and execution.
• High degree of ownership, business acumen, and entrepreneurial mindset.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across teams and all management levels.
• Proven ability to manage time-sensitive matters, ensuring timely follow-up and closure.
• Capable of handling multiple priorities simultaneously while working effectively with cross-functional partners.

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