Senior Specialist, Transaction Services

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

Senior Specialist, Transaction Services

Senior Specialist, Transaction Services
Job Description Summary
Overview
The Global Business Service Center (GBSC) is a shared services center within Mastercard whose mission is to add value to our partners and serve our customers by delivering operational excellence, enhanced customer experiences, and focused business results. The Senior Specialist, Accounts Payable will execute on this mission in collaboration with peers and support of Transaction Services Leadership.
• Do you want to be part of a dynamic and agile team environment?
• Are you motivated to drive business transformation on a global scale?
• Are you a collaborative leader who empowers employees to deliver measurable results?
Role
• Serves as an Individual Contributor over global functions such as accounts payable in the procure to pay space.
• Ensures quality and timely resolution for customer inquiries
• Manages daily operating activities as a service to deliver process automation, financial risk management and innovative customer solutions
• Communicates process issues or updates to stakeholders, assesses and recommends opportunities for improvement
• Liaises with GBSC, regional, and business teams to ensure compliance with all represented policies and controls
• Evaluates financial and operational performance metrics, summarizes findings and makes timely recommendations to senior leadership
• Reviews AP subledger for open transactions and takes appropriate action for closure.
• Ensures timely follow up with stakeholders to resolve and streamline the process.
• Ensures compliance to SOX controls and maintains documentation as assigned and serves as a point of escalation for compliance and service level issue
All About You
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent work experience(8-10 yrs AP experience)
• Experience using Oracle, Tableau and Coupa preferred.
• Experience managing procure to pay processes with reliance on metrics-based performance management tools
• Experience managing a diverse, multi-functional group
• Experience building trusted relationships with business partners
• Demonstrated successful oversight of the management and resolution of high-risk issues to ensure completeness and efficiency
• Experience evaluating business processes and providing advice on ways to effectively streamline processes and improve customer experience
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency and accuracy

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.