Director, HR M&A Integration (12 Month FTC)

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

Director, HR M&A Integration (12 Month FTC)

Please note: this is a 12 month fixed term contract (maternity cover) position.

Overview
The People M&A Director serves as the program manager for overseeing complex interrelated HR projects and/or programs from initiation through delivery, to include due diligence and integration planning and execution for company mergers and acquisition (M&A). Represents the department internally and externally on complex integration matters, translating deal strategy to successful team and system integration

Role:
• Leads the successful completion of major programs and projects, including managing due diligence and integration processes throughout the M&A life cycle.
• Manages and leads integration and planning according to timelines, budget and quality standards. Works cross-functionally with other project stakeholders to ensure project dependencies are identified and communicated.
• Serves as a subject matter expert through the diligence process, including assisting with framing diligence objectives and coordinating the reporting of diligence findings to leadership.
• Proactively ensures program and project planning gaps or other risks are effectively identified and mitigated, escalating information and recommending issue resolution as appropriate. Monitors and supports teams to ensure a smooth and seamless transition post M&A.
• Ensures appropriate consideration of any organizational impacts through the integration process, including management of integration implementation and data migration into company systems.
• Leverages expertise to help leadership build and execute business and cultural integration plans as well as change management.
• Aligns program roadmap strategically and financially to department and company goals. Collaborates with a cross-functional team to manage delivery and governance of the integration.
• Creates strategic program timelines as well as detailed project plans; assesses resource loading, dependencies, and milestones. Evaluates progress to timeline and budget and adjusts project resource allocation as needed from planning through execution.
• Manages HR integration budget against pre-determined budgets

All About You:
• Prior M&A experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in human resources management
• Extensive HR experience
• Demonstrated mastery in the key principles of cross-functional project and program management (ex: time, quality, cost) as well as formal change management processes and methods (Prosci or similar approach)
• Proven track record of strong project management skills; managing multiple projects and meeting deadlines without compromising quality
• Outstanding communication skills both oral and written essential. Executive presence.
• Flexible work schedule; M&A projects often involve tight timelines
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives on both strategic and tactical levels
• Exceptional financial acumen
• Ability to work with cross-functional business teams to identify fundamental business drivers and risks to those drivers, and translate them into modeling parameters
• Mastery of critical thinking skills with solid judgment and strong initiative
• Demonstrated expert leadership/influence and collaboration across multiple and diverse groups

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.