Mastercard UK | Vice President, Controller

Roles and responsibilities

• The Vice President, Controller - Core Payments reports to the SVP, Assistant Corporate Controller, and serves as the senior controllership leader responsible for the integrity, governance, audit readiness, and financial reporting environment for the business unit, with particular focus on blockchain and digital payments.
• This role operates as a strategic partner to global and regional finance teams, Treasury, Corporate Controllership, business leadership, and the Global Business Shared Service Organization (GBSC), providing authoritative accounting judgment and driving consistent execution across a complex global operating environment.
• The position will help establish and mature a best-in-class controllership function for a highly complex, strategically important, and recently acquired Mastercard business, including oversight of relevant legal entity, statutory, regulatory, treasury, and governance considerations.
• Lead monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc management reporting, including variance analysis, technical position support, executive presentations, and recurring or ad hoc updates to senior management and applicable governance forums.
• Established credibility as a trusted advisor to senior finance, business, controllership, technical accounting, and audit stakeholders on complex, judgmental, and evolving accounting matters.
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed.
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and.
• Serve as the senior controllership advisor to business and finance leadership, providing accounting judgment on complex transactions, business models, digital asset and stablecoin-related activities, revenue recognition, balance sheet classification, and evolving regulatory matters.
• Drive consistent application of accounting policies, controls, and reporting practices across global and regional teams, including coordination with Corporate Controllership, Technical Accounting, Regional Controllers, GBSC, Tax, Legal, Treasury, and business partners.
• Own senior-level engagement with external auditors and support statutory, internal, regulatory, and other required audits, including audit documentation, issue resolution, and alignment across relevant controllership and GBSC teams.
• Oversee compliance, governance, and financial integrity for relevant business activities and legal entities, including SOX, Internal Audit, ORM, statutory reporting, local audit requirements, and escalation of potential exposures to senior leadership.
• Establish robust compliance reporting for the integration period, including risk and issue tracking, milestone reporting, evidence retention, control-gap status, audit finding resolution, and clear visibility to senior leadership on items that could impact financial reporting, regulatory compliance, or integration readiness.
• Ensure the acquired company maintains audit-ready documentation throughout integration, including process narratives, control evidence, reconciliations, management review support, policy exception approvals, local statutory and regulatory filing support, and formal attestations required before system migration or reporting process transition.
• Ensure compliant legacy processes are maintained until transition, including identification of changes to business activities or regulatory obligations, support for timely data and evidence requests, participation in control walkthroughs and remediation efforts, and confirmation of readiness for policy, process, system, and organizational handoffs.
• Maintain a legal-entity-level statutory compliance register for the digital payments business, including jurisdictional filing deadlines, audit requirements, financial statement preparation obligations, licensing or regulatory reporting triggers, and local reporting requirements.
• Oversee statutory compliance activities specific to digital payments, stablecoins, crypto assets, settlement, safeguarding, and money movement, including coordination with Legal, Compliance, Treasury, Tax, and Corporate Controllership teams to assess requirements driven by regulated activity, regulatory capital or liquidity obligations, and country-specific financial reporting expectations.
• Drive periodic reviews to confirm statutory reporting readiness, emerging GAAP or regulatory changes, bridge adjustment complexity, audit dependencies, and remediation status across the acquired company’s digital payments footprint.
• Direct experience with crypto assets and/or fiat-backed stablecoins, including fair value measurement, classification, and disclosure.

Requirements

• CPA, CA, or equivalent certification required; bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience with digital assets, fintech, payments, treasury, settlement, liquidity, statutory reporting, regulatory compliance, or legal entity controllership preferred.
• Proven ability to strengthen governance, assess and design effective financial controls, resolve high-risk issues, and drive sustainable remediation in a matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated executive presence, communication skills, and leadership judgment, with the ability to simplify complex issues and provide clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Proven people leader who can coach, develop, prioritize, and build capability across accounting or controllership teams.
• Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide.

Mastercard UK

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Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in London.