Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant Position: Accountant/ Senior Accountant, Net Revenue, GBSC
Job Description Summary
Overview:

- Are you motivated to work in a team that provides global services
- Do you like to simplify, standardize, and transform existing processes

This Position will provide excellent accounting services to Mastercard Worldwide as part of the Global Business Services Center (GBSC). The candidate will be responsible for delivering timely and accurate accounting services to our Mastercard Worldwide business unit(s) and will be responsible to support processes such as contract review to capture key financial elements, month-end close process, reconciliation & variance analysis for net revenue, rebate and incentive payment validation, processing, and approvals.

Role:

- 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

All About You:

Education/Certification

- CPA/CA, preferred
- Inter CA, MBA Finance

Knowledge/Experience/Skills

- 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