Manager, Accounting

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

Manager, Accounting

Role & Responsibilities:

• Supervise and Monitor Reconciliations: Oversee the end-to-end Balance Sheet reconciliation preparation and approval process across all assigned entities, ensuring adherence to deadlines, policy, and quality standards.

• Drive Reconciliation Quality: Establish and maintain a robust quality control and internal review framework, and lead quality improvement initiatives to reduce errors across account categories based on risk.

• Investigate Required Adjustments: Investigate and review required adjustments and aged reconciling items across entities, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely remediation to drive down open balances.

• Deliver Periodic Reporting: Prepare and distribute periodic reporting on reconciliation status, ageing, risk, and action plans to leadership and Controllers in line with applicable policy.

• Manage Validation and Past-Due Review: Own general-ledger to reconciliation-tool validation assignments, review and escalate past-due reconciliations, track key objectives and metrics, and perform the periodic reconciliation risk assessment.

• Execute Write-Offs: Coordinate with functional stakeholders to validate and approve required-adjustment write-offs, prepare and post the related journal entries, and maintain supporting documentation in line with policy.

• Safeguard the Control Environment: Maintain internal, SOX, and application-level controls over the reconciliation process, including periodic control reviews and certifications, with the goal of zero control deficiencies.

• Administer the Reconciliation Platform: Oversee administration of the reconciliation platform – user onboarding, role and access management, periodic user access reviews – and manage license governance and related administration.

• Support Audits: Prepare off-cycle and audit-specific reconciliations, support SOC and control reviews, provide compliance evidence, and act as primary liaison for internal and external auditors, tracking observations and remediation through to closure.

• Lead Stakeholders and Team: Partner with regional and corporate Controllers and lead periodic governance forums; provide leadership to the internal and outsourced team; and manage capacity, hiring, and performance.

All About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field; professional certification (e.g., CA, CPA, CMA, or ACCA) preferred.

• 8+ years of progressive experience in Balance Sheet reconciliations, record-to-report, or controllership within a global finance shared services environment, including 2+ years in a supervisory or managerial capacity.

• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP, the accounting close, Balance Sheet reconciliations, required adjustments, and internal controls (including SOX).

• Hands-on experience administering a reconciliation platform (e.g., BlackLine or comparable), including user access management and controls, and familiarity with major ERP systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP).

• Proven track record of driving reconciliation quality, automation, and process improvement, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills and advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and people-leadership skills, with the ability to work across geographies and time zones and with outsourced delivery partners, and experience supporting internal and external audits.

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.