Director, Controller | London, UK

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Title and Summary

Director, Controller

Role :

The position will be part of the Controller's group within Mastercard Europe's Finance division, reporting to the Europe Regional Controller.

Europe Controller's Group is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the US GAAP financials in partnership with the GBSC (Global Business Service Center), ensuring local statutory reporting compliance, Rebates & Incentives, as well as providing support to the business teams across a number of areas including accounting and controls.

This role is key for control oversight for Mastercard fund reinvestment process in Europe, ensuring rigorous accounting approaches and compliance with corporate policies and internal controls. The position requires building and fostering relationships across the organization at various levels and geographies.

This role oversees the timely and correct accounting treatment of all customer business agreements in terms of revenue recognition and contra-revenue (rebates and incentives) in partnership with the GBSC (Shared Services center), ensuring compliance with current applicable Mastercard policies and internal controls as well as US GAAP.

Additionally, ensuring legal entity management in compliance with US GAAP in partnership with the GBSC (Shared Services center) and local statutory financial reporting.

Responsibilities : Funds

• Leads annual review and updates EU fund usage policy, coordinating inputs from multiple experts and fund management teams.
• Initiates and coordinates quarterly accounting reviews of fund reinvestment contracts, ensuring alignment on approaches, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Calculates and confirms monthly accruals for fund spends to GBSC, monitor PL movements, and investigate any irregularities.
• Monitors accrual balances and coordinates bi-annual BS clearing processes with GBSC.
• Collects information / documents and initiates quarterly billing for "pay-as-agent" contracts with customers.
• Arranges and delivers periodic training sessions for finance teams, fund administrators, and broader business teams.
• Supports the Regional Internal Control Lead with periodic reviews of end-to-end fund management processes in selected countries.
• Handles internal auditors' requests, covering accounting-related questions during IA reviews of the fund management process in Europe.
• Acta as a subject-matter expert, assisting business teams with fund usage requirements and coordinating complex reviews with tax, legal, compliance, and other experts as needed

Rebates & Incentives

Legal entity accounting

About You :

Strong understanding of internal controls

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 :

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