Senior Accountant
Mastercard · Posted Oct 9
Global technology company connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, and businesses through secure payment processing and digital commerce solutions
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About the role
Mastercard powers digital payments choices across 200+ countries and territories, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. The Senior Accountant provides accounting services to Mastercard Worldwide as part of the Global Business Services Center (GBSC), delivering timely and accurate accounting to the business units. This role covers contract review, the contra revenue system sub ledger, the financial month-end close for net revenue, and rebate and incentive payment validation, processing and approval.
What you will do
- Review executed contracts and create customers, deals and incentives in the Mastercard Contra Revenue System (CRS)
- Accomplish timely, accurate close of the CRS sub ledger and Oracle general ledger including creation and review of journal entries
- Identify and prepare manual journal entries through the analysis of close results, trends and actual to budget/forecast
- Prepare and review general ledger account reconciliations
- Perform detailed review of rebate and incentive payment requests including contract review and validation of driver data to various internal systems
- Provide overall support and customer service to business partners located throughout the Mastercard Worldwide organization
- Recommend, develop and implement process improvements to improve accounting operational efficiency, quality of output and optimize synergies
- Monitor performance indicators to track progress against goals
- Perform various ad-hoc reporting, analysis or projects, as needed
- Partner with financial systems regarding CRS requirements, data, reporting, and functionality
- Support SOX control compliance
- Other duties as required
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- CPA/CA, preferred
- MBA Finance
- Knowledge of US GAAP and current accounting concepts
- Prior revenue, contra revenue, and/or contract management experience, preferred
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong customer service and business acumen
- Progressive accounting experience preferably in a large, global environment
- Ability to deliver accurate results in a fast-paced environment with attention to deadline constraints
- Robust understanding of financial/ERP systems, preferably direct experience with Oracle
- Prior experience in significant process improvements projects
- Organize and prioritize multiple activities among a team with a high sense of urgency
- Customer service oriented with the ability to communicate effectively and develop solid working relationships across multiple levels and organization boundaries
- Capable of working within a changing environment with excellent analytical, planning and organization skills
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry that connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses worldwide. It operates a fast and secure payment processing network that spans more than 200 countries and territories. Through innovative products and solutions in credit, debit, digital assets, and security, Mastercard makes commerce safer, simpler, and more accessible.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1966
- Location
- Purchase, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $115M raised
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Business Officer
President & Chief Technology Officer
Chief People Officer
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