IT Lead focused on lifecycle management and technological modernization in financial services. Act as a bridge between business areas and technical teams for critical applications.
About the role
- 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.
- 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.
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
- eligibility for tuition reimbursement
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