Vacancies at Mastercard

• Work on small teams to solve our clients' most challenging strategic problems through data-driven solutions.
• Collaborate with motivated peers who are passionate about what they do.
• Build strong relationships with clients to understand their business needs, find strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions.
• Grow your career by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team.
• Have an immediate opportunity for meaningful contributions, increased responsibility, leadership roles, and professional advancement.
• Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and quickly gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management.
• Receive extensive training focusing on helping you build your core consulting skill set.

We Recruit For And Value The Following Core Competencies

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.
• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills.
• Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.
• Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.
• Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude.
• Integrity: Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from our mistakes.
• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated leadership abilities.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate
• Outstanding record of academic achievement
• Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English and the local office language(s)

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• DFO assumes full responsibility for all core financial processes in the SA, namely financial reporting, control, planning, budgeting, forecasting, customer business agreements.
• Also responsible for planning and objective setting, performance metrics, internal management reporting, Financial Analysis, customer business agreements.
• Working with the Area Managers to provides financial leadership to country management in each market to enhance business head’s and account manager’s business acumen, financial know-how, understanding of business case modeling/ structuring sound business cases, financial implications of their actions or non-actions
• Provide finance support in the expansion of the business e.g, opening of new offices, new products.
• Applies a good strategic understanding of the multi-dimensional business dynamics of the African markets and competitive forces at play in driving creative responses and formulating mitigating strategies and new business models.
• Support continuous reviews of existing processes to assess operational efficiency and development and implementation of process improvements to ensure that processes meet the present and anticipated needs of internal customers, members, and other stakeholders

Knowledge

All About You

• Specialist knowledge in Financial Reporting- Chartered Accountant or CPA.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with the ability to capture the essence of key insights across the market opportunities.
• Broad based commercial awareness to manage risk versus return trade-offs.
• Deep understanding of all the components impacting Mastercard’s business in the SSA market clusters (current and emerging product lines, services, and programs) to be able to conceptualize innovative incentive deal structures.

Communication, Impact And Influence

• Influences and negotiates with the respective market business unit managers who may have divergent objectives in relation to their respective business P&L. This involves challenging their assumptions to direct and shape their account management strategies or business plans to deliver on revenue targets, to implement disciplined approaches etc on forecasting of revenue targets.
• Supports the resolution of customer service issues where required and address directly the concerns raised by customers – e.g. billing, waiver requests and business case targets.
• Ensures that Finance is closely integrated with, and positively supports the business providing managers at all levels with the necessary information to maximize revenue, profitability and efficiency; works with the management team in the development and implementation of short and medium term strategic and tactical plans and provide the financial input required to that process;

Experience/Education

• Advanced financial experience, qualified CPA, Chartered Accountant or equivalent.