Senior Accountant

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Senior Accountant

Overview
• Responsible for a broad range of finance related responsibilities and acts as a finance generalist for Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay.
• Activities include local statutory management, Audit management and Account Receivables management.
Role
• Prepare accurate journal entries. Provide analytical review of the business unit financial statements. Have a strong understanding of accounting principles (US GAAP), SEC reporting and accounting systems
• Safeguard company assets with prudent balance sheet management
• Satisfy all local, legal, tax and corporate requirements. Establish a strong internal control environment;
• Ensure P&L understanding and implications for local business and key stakeholders and review financial performance to understand deviations against budgets, and forecasts at a detailed level
• Have a positive influence/ impact on finance staff and region personnel and is viewed as a leader within the group. Foster cooperation and teamwork among team members
• Partners with regions, business units and partners and/or corporate to assist in developing, analyzing and validating finance opportunities and concerns. Support regional level payments by working with GBSC to analyze the integrity of payments and resolve billing inquiries, as deemed necessary
• Assists with strategy and process improvements to ensure alignment with market goals; proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements
• Ensures compliance with policies, perform control testing as needed and establish a strong internal control environment.
All About You
• University degree in a financial or related field. MBA desired.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in finance. Working knowledge of Controllership Strategy a plus
• Experienced with financial systems and applications; serves as a resource to those less experienced (e.g., Hyperion, Oracle)
• Experience leading the aspects of the financial aspects and reporting (e.g. monthly financial outcomes, quarterly and annual results for corporate and statutory level)
• Experience individual that could provide advice and feedback to region/corporate on risks and opportunities, using analytical techniques as well as outside trends and events
• Experience identifying and implementing process improvement activities; makes recommendations to further improve procedures
• Successfully resolves complex issues in a timely and efficient manner
• Successfully embodies change management; executes corporate cultural initiatives, enhancing the support of an ever-evolving environment to fulfill corporate goals and objectives
• English and Spanish required.

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.