Director, M&A Integration in Purchase, NY

Description

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results. 

Job Title

Director, M&A IntegrationOverview:
Provides strategic direction and governance of the Finance M&A integration program
Establishes deal management framework and provides project management tools
Manages deal pipeline through diligence and partners with Finance sub workstreams to identify the integration budget needs and the initial base plan
Supports on-going project decisioning, cross-functional solutioning and program level coordination
Consults on high risk issues and coordinates solutions that are program wide through the integration
Provides and on-going focus to Optimize and streamline finance integration management and integration process

Role:
• Defining the integration basics, including the degree of integration and guiding principles across functions
• Coordinating integration activities across the combining organizations through a disciplined and structured approach, including functional and cross-functional workstreams
• Rolling out the integration methodology and tools, including status reporting and dependency and issue management
• Manages M&A program across all active deals to identify issues, decisions, and resource constraints, and escalate to executive management for resolution
• Launching key communications and the communication planning process
• Incorporates learnings from prior integrations into ‘playbook' to ensure continuous improvement
• Applies enterprise/industry best practices defined by the Integration Center of Excellence; captures new learnings to continue to nurture best practices
Project Execution:
• Accountable for Finance Integration Lead (Deal specific project lead) onboarding covering integration philosophy and processes, best practices, tools and resources and provides ongoing coaching
• Develop Project charters, lead integration bootcamps and communicate the integration journey to the acquired company finance teams.
• Coach project teams with initial development of milestones, team structure and processes
• Consults on on-going project decisioning, cross-functional solutioning and program level coordination
• Support the overall Integration effort from initial design to transition to BAU
• Provides oversight of program level change/scope control
Deal Management:
• Participates in Due Diligence as appropriate to assess the target company's financial health, operations, accounting policy and controls to identify potential risks and integration complexity
• Works with the Strategy team to develop integration estimates and purchase price considerations that will impact the business model
Coordination:
• Provide overall program updates to Mastercard Finance Executives and ICOE (Integration Center of Excellence / integration Executive)
• Act as a liaison between ICOE, Other Functional Workstream leads, Finance Integration Lead (FIL) and Mastercard Finance; to ensure issues are identified and addressed
Other
• Manage and/or conduct ad hoc projects as required
• Leads Cross functional process improvements
• Role will be based in Purchase, NY OR O'Fallon, MO
• Travel required

All About You:
• Experience operating in a diverse, multi-functional finance group across time zones
• Exposure to supporting a designated business area on risk and opportunity considerations, leveraging analytical techniques as well as outside trends and events
• Experience identifying and implementing process improvement activities; makes recommendations to further improve procedures
• Desire and ability to operate in an entrepreneurial environment
Strong thought leadership and people management skills; empowered and accountable
Independent worker & thinker with the ability to follow up on time sensitive issues, with the ability to influence others
A team player with the ability to communicate effectively and develop solid working relationships across multiple levels and organizational boundaries
• Experience building internal and external business partnerships; ability to develop and leverage key relationships in order to understand the needs and objectives of stakeholders
• Strong leadership and influencing skills
• Ability to adapt and react to situational / operational changes
• Ability to identify inter-dependencies and impacts across functions (i.e., Finance, LFI, O&T, P&C)
• Manage requests with reasonable priority

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We've implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we're all in this together.

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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.​

If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable.accommodation@mastercard.com 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

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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