Director, Finance Business Partner

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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

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and intellectually curious Director, Finance Business Partner to support Mastercard Technology’s investment decisioning. This role serves as a key partner to the VP, Finance Business Partner and plays a critical part in driving high-quality business cases, advanced financial modeling, and data-driven insights that influence strategic technology outcomes.

The ideal candidate combines strong financial rigor with an eagerness to understand how technology works—how platforms scale, how architectures drive cost, and how engineering decisions translate into financial impact. They are comfortable navigating ambiguity, asking the right questions, and distilling complex technical topics into clear, actionable recommendations.

This role is perfect for someone who is assertive, structured, detail-oriented, and motivated by the challenge of bringing clarity to complex decisions. The Director will help build and maintain the modeling infrastructure, standardize processes, and elevate the quality, speed, and transparency of technology investment decisions.

Role

• Business Case Development & Strategic Modeling
• Build and own end-to-end financial models for technology investment business cases, ensuring clarity, structure, and ease of maintenance.
• Translate technical inputs (capacity, architecture, engineering labor, infrastructure components, etc.) into robust financial outputs.
• Conduct scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and line-item modeling to support investment trade-off decisions.
• Provide support in preparing materials for steering committees (steercos), ensuring alignment across Finance, Technology, and Product stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Partnering
• Partner with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and product leaders to understand technology drivers and convert them into financial implications.
• Collaborate closely with Finance (FP&A, Controllership, Strategy) to ensure business cases align with broader financial goals and P&L impacts.
• Gather, validate, and challenge assumptions from cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy and transparency.
• Process & Framework Ownership
• Help build a repeatable, scalable framework for business case development, including standardized templates, modeling logic, and governance practices.
• Maintain a quarterly refresh process for all models, ensuring assumptions, actuals, and forecasts remain current.
• Drive consistency and traceability across inputs, assumptions, and outputs.
• Strategic Insights & Decision Support
• Identify key financial drivers, highlight risks/opportunities, and provide insight-rich recommendations.
• Proactively challenge assumptions, uncover blind spots, and elevate the quality of decision-making.
• Support forecasting and budgeting activities related to technology investments and run-the-business cost structures.
• Automation & Continuous Improvement
• Identify opportunities to automate or streamline modeling, intake, and business case workflows.
• Partner and provide support to implement tools that modernize the end-to-end investment process (Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, modeling engines, automation solutions).
• Consistently push for efficiency, standardization, and data integrity.

All About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, or related field; MBA or CFA preferred.
• Experience in FP&A, strategic finance, business case development, or technology finance.
• Strong financial modeling and valuation capabilities; expert-level Excel skills.
• Exposure to modeling automation tools or financial systems (Anaplan, Domo, Alteryx, Power BI, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Technology or Product teams and an appetite to learn technical details
• Experience with cloud, infrastructure, software development lifecycle, or platform economics.
• Strong communication and executive presence—able to frame issues, influence stakeholders, and drive alignment.
• Ability to distill complex topics into simple insights tailored for senior audiences.
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and rigor.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive in a fast-paced environment

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

Responsibilities

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

O'Fallon, Missouri: $142,000 - $234,000 USD

If you have questions about this posting, please contact [email protected]