Director, Finance Business Partner at Mastercard supporting technology investment decision-making. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop financial models and provide strategic insights.
Responsibilities
Build and own end-to-end financial models for technology investment business cases, ensuring clarity, structure, and ease of maintenance.
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.
Requirements
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
Benefits
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
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