Director, Finance Business Partner, Digital Payments

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, Finance Business Partner, Digital Payments

Director, Finance I Core Payments: Blockchain & Digital Currencies

Overview:
The Director, Finance -- Blockchain & Digital Currencies at Mastercard will serve as the lead finance advisor to Digital Assets & Blockchain product and engineering leaders, helping shape business strategy, drive disciplined growth, and ensure robust financial management. This role will provide strategic financial leadership across planning, forecasting, performance management, investment prioritization, and executive decision support, ensuring financial outcomes are aligned with organizational goals.
The ideal candidate is a strategic finance leader with strong business judgment, executive presence, and the ability to translate complex financial and operational data into clear recommendations. Collaboration, financial acumen, ownership, stakeholder management, and the ability to influence senior leaders are critical to success. This role will partner closely with product, engineering, regional, and corporate finance teams to assess the financial implications of business decisions and enable data-driven execution against Mastercard’s broader strategy.

Role:
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes for Blockchain & Digital Currencies, ensuring plans are grounded in business drivers, strategic priorities, and financial targets
• Oversee month-end financial close activities, analyze results versus forecast and plan, and communicate key variances, risks, and opportunities to senior stakeholders
• Proactively manage financial risks and opportunities across revenues, expenses, investments, and macroeconomic drivers, providing actionable recommendations to leadership
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business partners and senior management, building strong relationships to influence decisions and effectively manage business unit financial performance
• Coordinate quarterly forecasts, divisional budgets and long term planning, partnering with stakeholders to identify trade-offs, align resources, and deliver against financial commitments
• Lead detailed personnel, vendor, and investment forecasting, including analysis of run-rate trends, hiring plans, and productivity opportunities
• Partner with sourcing, product, engineering, and business owners to evaluate vendor negotiations, business cases, and investment proposals
• Own monthly and quarterly internal and corporate reporting deliverables, including operating reviews, executive updates, and performance narratives
• Identify and lead process improvement opportunities that strengthen financial discipline, improve decision support, and enhance operating efficiency
• Lead special projects and ad hoc analyses, including strategic initiatives, business case development, scenario modeling, and executive-level decision support
About you:
• Proven ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Strong proficiency in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance and accounting
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management skills including superior organization, planning, and follow through.
• Able to foster a positive team environment and collaborate to produce outstanding results
• Able to work independently, prioritize effectively and drive process improvement initiatives
• Good knowledge of Business Intelligence tools and experience with financial systems/applications (e.g., Hyperion and Oracle) preferred
• Advanced degree or MBA preferred.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

Purchase, New York: $163,000 - $269,000 USD