Finance Business Partner Director, Mastercard
$163-269k
Office located in Purchase, NY
Global payments technology company
Be an early applicant
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$163-269k
Office located in Purchase, NY
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate combines strong financial rigor with an eagerness to understand how technology works—how platforms scale, how architectures drive cost, and how engineering decisions translate into financial impact
- They are comfortable navigating ambiguity, asking the right questions, and distilling complex technical topics into clear, actionable recommendations
- This role is perfect for someone who is assertive, structured, detail-oriented, and motivated by the challenge of bringing clarity to complex decisions
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, or related field; MBA or CFA preferred
- Experience in FP&A, strategic finance, business case development, or technology finance
- Strong financial modeling and valuation capabilities; expert-level Excel skills
- Exposure to modeling automation tools or financial systems (Anaplan, Domo, Alteryx, Power BI, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience partnering with Technology or Product teams and an appetite to learn technical details
- Experience with cloud, infrastructure, software development lifecycle, or platform economics
- Strong communication and executive presence—able to frame issues, influence stakeholders, and drive alignment
- Ability to distill complex topics into simple insights tailored for senior audiences
- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and rigor
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and intellectually curious Director, Finance Business Partner to support Mastercard Technology’s investment decisioning
- This role serves as a key partner to the VP, Finance Business Partner and plays a critical part in driving high-quality business cases, advanced financial modeling, and data-driven insights that influence strategic technology outcomes
- The Director will help build and maintain the modeling infrastructure, standardize processes, and elevate the quality, speed, and transparency of technology investment decisions
- Business Case Development & Strategic Modeling
- Build and own end-to-end financial models for technology investment business cases, ensuring clarity, structure, and ease of maintenance
- Translate technical inputs (capacity, architecture, engineering labor, infrastructure components, etc.) into robust financial outputs
- Conduct scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and line-item modeling to support investment trade-off decisions
- Provide support in preparing materials for steering committees (steercos), ensuring alignment across Finance, Technology, and Product stakeholders
- Partner with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and product leaders to understand technology drivers and convert them into financial implications
- Collaborate closely with Finance (FP&A, Controllership, Strategy) to ensure business cases align with broader financial goals and P&L impacts
- Gather, validate, and challenge assumptions from cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy and transparency
- Help build a repeatable, scalable framework for business case development, including standardized templates, modeling logic, and governance practices
- Maintain a quarterly refresh process for all models, ensuring assumptions, actuals, and forecasts remain current
- Drive consistency and traceability across inputs, assumptions, and outputs
- Identify key financial drivers, highlight risks/opportunities, and provide insight-rich recommendations
- Proactively challenge assumptions, uncover blind spots, and elevate the quality of decision-making
- Support forecasting and budgeting activities related to technology investments and run-the-business cost structures
- Identify opportunities to automate or streamline modeling, intake, and business case workflows
- Partner and provide support to implement tools that modernize the end-to-end investment process (Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, modeling engines, automation solutions)
- Consistently push for efficiency, standardization, and data integrity
- 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
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
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