Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, weāre helping build aĀ sustainableĀ economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactionsĀ 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
Director ā Business Analysis (Corporate Treasury)
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
The Treasury function at Mastercard is responsible for safeguarding and optimizing the companyās financial resources globally. Within Treasury, the Global Settlement Services team manages the movement of funds related to Mastercard transactions, maintains relationships with commercial and central settlement bank partners, engages with regulatory bodies and ensures operational excellence across all settlement activities. The team facilitates settlement of ~$25 billion daily activity in 80+ currencies via round the clock support in India, Poland and USA.
This Director ā Business Analysis (Corporate Treasury) role in Global Settlement Services leads high-impact projects that deliver settlement services using current or new internal capabilities, partners and platforms. The role will focus on delivering settlement services in Asia Pacific (AP) region as a priority but would also support projects in other regions driven by business needs.
Responsibilities:
ā¢ Lead execution of regional settlement projects in collaboration with the global team on strategic efforts such as introducing new settlement services and FX enhancements in AP.
ā¢ Serve as a subject matter expert and strategic leader from the Treasury department, focusing on enablement of settlement services and capabilities.
ā¢ Collaborate with business units to strategize, develop and implement enhancements to settlement service offerings, ensuring alignment with market needs and operational capabilities
ā¢ Conduct thorough analysis to assess the financial, operational, regulatory, customer, and system impacts and requirements needed to support settlement services; present strategic recommendations to executive management
ā¢ Identify and address risks and impacts to Mastercard and its customers due to the introduction of new settlement capabilities
ā¢ Lead AP liquidity roadmap by driving initiatives to ensure optimal Settlement liquidity protocol is in place across AP markets. Implement liquidity solutions in coordination with Settlement Operations and Mastercardās settlement bank partners.
ā¢ Lead global settlement invoice processing, including onboarding new vendors, routing invoices for approvals and payment via Oracle, and resolving processing exceptions.
ā¢ Oversee settlement-related bank account administration, including signatory updates, account closures, ongoing KYC reviews, and annual account validations, in partnership with GBSC.
ā¢ This role is part of broader Settlement team that comprises an Operations team responsible for 24*7 settlement. In the event of business contingency scenarios, the individual in the role would be part of rostering schedule for managerial oversight of the Asia Pacific weekend settlement process.
All About You:
ā¢ Educational qualification: MBA or a degree in business, finance; Professional qualifications like CTP, CFP preferred.
ā¢ Proven track record in payment systems product/project management, including the implementation and maintenance of external systems or proprietary technology. Demonstrated ability in leading high-impact transformation initiatives with strong project management and stakeholder management skills across global and cross-functional teams.
ā¢ Advanced level of expertise in Treasury settlements / payment operations and banking infrastructure gained through experiences in multinational corporatesā Regional/Global Treasury centers, financial institutions or banks.
ā¢ Strong team leadership experience of an operations team.
ā¢ Proficient in payment network systems, including authorization, clearing, and settlement, and bank connectivity solutions like H2H and SWIFT.
ā¢ Team player with proven team leadership and relationship skills.
ā¢ Effective communication skills and experience of presenting complex topics (preferably in Treasury and banking domain) to senior management.
ā¢ Excellent negotiation skills and experience in managing complex banking relationships.
ā¢ To meet the demands of a global organization with 24/7 operations the candidate must be flexible to support management tasks that occur outside standard business hours.
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 Mastercardās 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 Mastercardās guidelines.