Manager, Accounting

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 Manager, Accounting Role & Responsibilities: • Supervise and Monitor Reconciliations: Oversee the end-to-end Balance Sheet reconciliation preparation and approval process across all assigned entities, ensuring adherence to deadlines, policy, and quality standards. • Drive Reconciliation Quality: Establish and maintain a robust quality control and internal review framework, and lead quality improvement initiatives to reduce errors across account categories based on risk. • Investigate Required Adjustments: Investigate and review required adjustments and aged reconciling items across entities, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely remediation to drive down open balances. • Deliver Periodic Reporting: Prepare and distribute periodic reporting on reconciliation status, ageing, risk, and action plans to leadership and Controllers in line with applicable policy. • Manage Validation and Past-Due Review: Own general-ledger to reconciliation-tool validation assignments, review and escalate past-due reconciliations, track key objectives and metrics, and perform the periodic reconciliation risk assessment. • Execute Write-Offs: Coordinate with functional stakeholders to validate and approve required-adjustment write-offs, prepare and post the related journal entries, and maintain supporting documentation in line with policy. • Safeguard the Control Environment: Maintain internal, SOX, and application-level controls over the reconciliation process, including periodic control reviews and certifications, with the goal of zero control deficiencies. • Administer the Reconciliation Platform: Oversee administration of the reconciliation platform – user onboarding, role and access management, periodic user access reviews – and manage license governance and related administration. • Support Audits: Prepare off-cycle and audit-specific reconciliations, support SOC and control reviews, provide compliance evidence, and act as primary liaison for internal and external auditors, tracking observations and remediation through to closure. • Lead Stakeholders and Team: Partner with regional and corporate Controllers and lead periodic governance forums; provide leadership to the internal and outsourced team; and manage capacity, hiring, and performance. All About You: • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field; professional certification (e.g., CA, CPA, CMA, or ACCA) preferred. • 8+ years of progressive experience in Balance Sheet reconciliations, record-to-report, or controllership within a global finance shared services environment, including 2+ years in a supervisory or managerial capacity. • Strong working knowledge of US GAAP, the accounting close, Balance Sheet reconciliations, required adjustments, and internal controls (including SOX). • Hands-on experience administering a reconciliation platform (e.g., BlackLine or comparable), including user access management and controls, and familiarity with major ERP systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP). • Proven track record of driving reconciliation quality, automation, and process improvement, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills and advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency. • Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and people-leadership skills, with the ability to work across geographies and time zones and with outsourced delivery partners, and experience supporting internal and external audits. Corporate