Senior AccountantMastercard

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
Job Posting Title: Senior Accountant (Philippines)
Job Description Summary
Overview
The position will oversee the entities within Mastercard Transaction Services, mainly for the EEMEA entities. Responsible for financial accounting, financial reporting and operating activities.
This position will report into the EEMEA Accounting Manager.
Responsibilities
• Performs complex accounting activities in accordance with accounting principles and standards to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, laws and reporting requirements
• Manage and oversee the bank reconciliation process
• Review and approval of journal entries and reconciliations
• Supports and co-ordinate month-end and year-end closing processes
• Responsible for analyzing and exercising judgment on financial performance and complex issues
• Independently determines complexity of issues, escalates and makes recommendations to leadership
• Assists with the implementation of process improvements
• Supports SOX compliance and assisting with control improvements
• Supports the business partner relationship and applies a client-service mentality towards all deliverables
• Raise/ review purchase requisitions in procurement system
• Analyze and reviews P&L and Balance Sheet accounts movement month-on-month, increases/decreases of expenses etc.
• Intercompany balance checking and review for settlement
• Supervises the day-to-day operations of EMEAA Global Accounting team. Assists staff with their calculations, journal entries, account balances, and other queries
• Perform other work-related ad hoc tasks that may be assigned as needed.
• Supports internal and external audit activities
• People leadership and mentoring to team
Experiences
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements and financial reporting requirements and consistently delivers accurate work on a timely basis
• Experience reviewing and analyzing work for appropriate accounting treatment
• Experience implementing and suggesting process improvements
• Experience performing basic issue resolution; gains exposure to the resolution of complex issues
• Experience executing controls and assessing their effectiveness, makes recommendations to improve upon areas of concern
• Proactively builds relationships with business partners
• May produce and review internal and external reports with a moderate level of complexity to ensure compliance
All About You
• Finance/Accounting/business qualification or related disciplines.
• Working knowledge of GAAP with legal entity and treasury accounting experience preferred.
• Proficiency with accounting and finance systems/software applications e.g. Excel and Oracle.
• Strong knowledge of Internal Control concepts.
• Driven by a continual process improvement agenda, demonstrated through challenging and improving processes.
• Detailed orientated with strong analytical and financial skills supported by excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience operating in a diverse, multi-functional finance group across time zones is a plus.
• Must be able to integrate knowledge across various disciplines and work across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Independent worker and thinker with the ability to follow up on time sensitive issues, with the ability to drive others.
• A team player with the ability to communicate effectively and develop good working relationships across multiple levels and organizational boundaries.
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.