Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
ACD Business Analyst
Business Analyst, Advisors Creative Desk
Overview
The Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, this team provides consulting, marketing, loyalty and analytics to financial institutions and merchants globally. Marketing Services is the team within Services that develops and executes the marketing programs that help our clients achieve their marketing goals. The Advisors Creative Desk (ACD) also sits within Services and is responsible for ideating and creating engaging, forward-thinking, on-brand content solutions that connect our advertising partners, platforms, and our portfolio of brands. Often working with the Marketing Services deliveries such as digital campaigns, events and
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As an Advisors Creative Desk (ACD) Business Analyst, you will work closely in the ACD business development within Mastercard, working with project managers through all the Americas team. Supported by the ACD team, this position will need to review project's scope details, billings, new job request/closings, WIP tracking, transfers/delays, and project change notices, staying abreast of changes and modifications to client budgets.
Role
• Scope and budget definition support; ensuring adherence to contract billing policies, compliance guidance and ACD workflow procedures; providing summaries of monthly billing and reconciliations.
• Prepare, review and distribute monthly and ad-hoc financial reports, such as labor reports, weekly utilization analysis, client budget trackers (ETC).
• Assist with on-boarding of new hires including time & expense entry, and PO processing.
• Liaise with Finance, and Billing teams to comply with client contract terms including billing and payment terms and ensure invoicing is accurate and timely.
• Manage and report on estimate vs actual for all jobs
• Ensure production jobs are reconciled and closed on a timely basis.
• Manage open Jobs and Purchase Order reports on a monthly basis to ensure timely closure.
• Process new contractor and FTE onboarding requests.
• Assist in the review of budgets/SOWs and client staffing plans, including rate card.
All About You
• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years of relevant experience in financial planning (preferred focused on Marketing deliveries)
• Solid financial background with proven analytical skills
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel for analysis (such as Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, SUMIF)
• Initiative and ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Approachable and solution-oriented
• Understanding of accounting concepts
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.