Senior Analyst, Business Planning and Performance - Corporate Solutions EEMEA

Role overview

Management reporting and performance

• Own monthly and quarterly management reporting across markets, clients, products, and sales teams.
• Analyze payment volume, revenue, rebates, incentives, costs, and profitability, including domestic and cross-border performance.
• Explain variances against budgets, forecasts, and prior year, and prepare executive business-review materials.
• Coordinate with Finance, Sales, and Product to maintain consistent definitions and accurate reporting.

Forecasting, budgeting, and planning

• Lead annual budget, regular forecast, and longer-term business-plan preparation and coordination.
• Build forecasts using client performance, sales pipelines, product adoption, and market assumptions; assess accuracy and challenge assumptions.
• Develop scenarios and sensitivity analyses for investment and resource decisions, and translate regional priorities into measurable plans, targets, and milestones.

Analysis, modelling, and incentives

• Build financial and commercial models linking payment volume, pricing, revenue, incentives, and costs; analyze datasets and develop dashboards.
• Automate recurring reporting where practical, reconcile data, and document assumptions, calculations, and sources.
• Coordinate sales incentive design and target setting; monitor attainment and validate calculation data.
• Review attribution, sales credit, exceptions, and double counting; maintain records, conduct checks, support audits, and escalate discrepancies.

Decision support and success measures

• Prepare business cases for opportunities, partnerships, and investments; assess returns, costs, delivery needs, and commercial risks.
• Track actions and benefits against approved business cases and provide analytical support to the SVP.
• Success means timely and accurate reporting, credible forecasts, realistic budgets and targets, auditable incentive calculations, and analysis that improves decisions and outcomes.

Required experience and qualifications

• Relevant experience in both management accounting and management consulting, with exposure to commercial planning and performance analysis.
• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Strong understanding of management accounts, budgeting, forecasting, profitability, and financial controls.
• Advanced Excel and demonstrated experience building financial and data models.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools; SQL capability is strongly preferred.
• Experience setting, monitoring, or reviewing sales incentive plans and performance targets.
• Ability to communicate complex analysis as clear recommendations and executive presentations; strong attention to detail and sound judgement.
• Ability to challenge unsupported assumptions, manage competing deadlines, and work across regional teams.

Preferred qualifications

• CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CPA, or an equivalent accounting qualification is preferred.
• Payments, banking, financial services, or another transaction-volume-driven business experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with CRM platforms, sales pipeline analysis, and reporting automation is preferred.

Corporate security responsibilities

• Follow Mastercard security policies and practices, protect confidentiality and information integrity, report suspected security violations or breaches, and complete mandatory security training.