Director, FP&A – Commercial

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

Director, FP&A – Commercial

Role Overview:

The Director, FP&A – Commercial reports to the Vice President, FP&A – CNPF and as a trusted partner to the SVP/Commercial CFO, plays a critical role in driving financial planning, long-term projections for board, strategy execution/performance tracking, and executive reporting for the Commercial organization.

The role has end-to-end ownership of core FP&A processes and acts as a key thought partner to the SVP/Commercial CFO and his team, providing governance at global level, collaborating and aligning with regional leads, provide financial advisory, establishing reporting, competitive analysis and strategic thinking, analytical leadership, insight, and operational leverage across planning and close cycles.

Key Responsibilities

• Own FP&A for Commercial end-to-end ownership across all process and establish solid and resilient governance across all regions
• Lead planning/forecast and close cycles, long-term projections for board, financial tracking of strategy execution, while serving as primary financial advisor for SVP/Commercial CFO and his team
• Act as a trusted partner to the Commercial CFO as required, providing continuity across deliverables, leadership forums, and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Establishing new processes and governance, while developing set of managerial reports for the business performance and strategy tracking
• Liaising with regional leads, while continuing to enhance competitive intelligence
• Own Commercial revenue consolidation and expense governance, ensuring transparency, accountability, and financial discipline
• Lead and oversee month end close deliverables, including variance analysis versus budget, forecast, prior year, and key business drivers.
• Develop and deliver executive level reporting, dashboards, and presentation materials for Commercial leadership and the CFO Commercial
• Ensure accuracy, integrity, and governance of data into enterprise planning systems (e.g., Product P&L, PPA, MyMPA including Hyperion).
• Design, maintain, and continually improve standardized reporting packs, KPIs, and performance metrics
• Drive process improvement and automation, building scalable analytical tools and financial models
• Provide review, oversight, and coaching across analytical outputs, ensuring high quality and consistency (including informal mentorship of analysts where applicable).
• Lead ad hoc analysis and special projects, exercising sound judgement on prioritization and stakeholder management.
• Guide and develop team members.
• All About You
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Progressive experience in FP&A, or Finance Business Partner, with demonstrated growth in scope, ownership, and stakeholder management, ability to manage team.
• Strong working knowledge of financial systems and BI tools (e.g. Hyperion, Oracle, Power BI).
• Excellent understanding of forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and performance management.
• Experience in Product financials or in Commercial is a plus.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced, matrix environment.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate data into clear executive insight.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
• Fluent in English.
• Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
• Corporate Security Responsibility
• All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes 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.
• In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

THIS POSTING RELECTS ONE OR MORE CURRENT VACANCIES ON OUR TEAM, AND MASTERCARD INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION BY 01/18/2027. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.

 Pay Ranges
• Purchase, New York: $163,000 - $269,000 USD