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

The Global Business Service Center (GBSC) is a shared services center within Mastercard whose mission is to add value to our partners and serve our customers by delivering operational excellence, enhanced customer experiences, and focused business results. Senior accountant will execute on this mission in collaboration with peers and support of Accounting Leadership.

Settlement Accounting :- This is our core process where we settle the dues of Acquirer and Issuer though our daily settlement process and within a stipulated time and using the Advance tools and technologies. Process exception are manage manually within TAT. This process has high volumes and time sensitive requirement.

Role

• Serves as global Settlement Accounting function operational support as senior accountant
• Responsible for financial accounting and associated daily operating activities as a service to deliver process automation, financial risk management and innovative customer solutions
• Collaborate with onshore and offshore global Settlement Accounting team
• Liaises with GBSC, regional, and business teams to ensure compliance with all represented policies and controls
• Evaluates financial and operational performance metrics, summarizes findings and makes timely recommendations to Settlement Accounting leadership

All About You

• Bachelor's degree accounting or Finance /Semi qualified Chartered accountant
• Strong experience of 10+ Years of experience in GL, AR and Exp in handing senior stakeholder & building relationships with business partners
• Responsible for financial accounting, financial reporting and operating activities
• Process activities include oversight and controlling the accounting and business processes; ensure the accuracy and timely completion of all activities.

Role

• Performs complex accounting activities (e.g., sub-ledger accounting [SLA] and high level financial statements) in accordance with accounting principles and standards to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, laws and reporting requirements
• Responsible for analysing and exercising judgment on financial performance and complex issues related to RTR (Record to Report)
• Independently determines complexity of issues, escalates and makes recommendations to leadership
• Assess and implement process improvements
• Supports SOX compliance and assisting with control improvements
• Supports the business partner relationship and applies a client-service mentality towards all deliverables
• Supports relationship with external and internal auditors
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements and financial reporting requirements and consistently delivers accurate work on a timely basis
• Produce and review internal and external reports with a moderate level of complexity to ensure compliance
• Responsible for financial accounting, financial reporting and operating activities
• Process activities include oversight and controlling the accounting and business processes; ensure the accuracy and timely completion of all activities.

Role

• Performs complex accounting activities (e.g., sub-ledger accounting [SLA] and high level financial statements) in accordance with accounting principles and standards to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, laws and reporting requirements
• Responsible for analysing and exercising judgment on financial performance and complex issues related to RTR (Record to Report)
• Independently determines complexity of issues, escalates and makes recommendations to leadership
• Assess and implement process improvements
• Supports SOX compliance and assisting with control improvements
• Supports the business partner relationship and applies a client-service mentality towards all deliverables
• Supports relationship with external and internal auditors
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements and financial reporting requirements and consistently delivers accurate work on a timely basis
• Produce and review internal and external reports with a moderate level of complexity to ensure compliance
• Systems experience with Oracle, Blackline Reconciliation tools; High Volume Matching
• Working Experience on SOX compliance
• Excellent problem solving and Analytical skills, able to understand and resolved complex accounting issues quickly
• Flexible with Shift timings
• Demonstrated successful oversight of the management and resolution of high-risk issues to ensure completeness and efficiency
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency and accuracy
• Excellent Communication and ability to coordinate work handoffs with global team for multiple daily checkpoints

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.