About This Role
The Director of Controllership Integration plays a crucial role in establishing and maintaining a best-in-class controllership for strategically important and recently acquired Mastercard businesses. This position is responsible for managing and overseeing integration activities, ensuring that financial systems, controls, and accounting practices align with company policies.
Responsibilities
- Assist in establishing and maintaining a best-in-class controllership for strategically important and recently acquired Mastercard businesses
- Manage and oversee activities associated with the integration
- Ensure that financial systems, controls, and accounting practices are harmonized and aligned with company policies during the integration process
- Build and engage teams to optimize and transform the current structure
- Utilize technical skillset to establish and enhance processes and internal controls
- Influence positive change through dialogue and partnership with finance and business partners, regional and business unit controllerships, and the GBSC (Global Business Service Center)
- Bring deep accounting expertise, strategic thinking, and project management skills to drive integration efforts efficiently
- Ensure integrity and accuracy of financials for acquisitions and compliance with policy and external and Corporate accounting requirements
- Partner with business unit finance partners and other finance functions with dependencies on controllership over the course of the integration
- Manage accounting-related matters on business transactions and accounting, including but not limited to revenue recognition, software capitalization, and impairment reviews
- Lead finance integrations of new Product acquisitions, including alignment to Mastercard’s finance policies and procedures, ensuring appropriate revenue and expense recognition, liaising with acquisition and Mastercard finance teams, and coordinating with Regional and Product Controllers where appropriate
- Influence change through strong, collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, including Business and Finance Executives, Peers, Products and Services business partners, Regional Controllers, and GBSC
- Identify opportunities to implement automated solutions to streamline processes
- Manage and execute alignment on Mastercard accounting policies and adhere to SOX as appropriate
- Identify key risks and exposures for process improvement
- Support monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc management reporting, including executive presentations to senior business leaders
- Perform periodic review of financial reporting processes to ensure operationally mitigating risks based on design and the evolution of business processes
- Execute on the integration project timeline and deliverables
