Assistant Controller - Mastercard

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

Assistant Controller

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Dynamic Yield by Mastercard is on the lookout for an Assistant Controller.

The Task-at-Hand:
• Responsible for the company’s worldwide revenue, monitor revenue streams, contracts and agreements and ensuring accurate and appropriate revenue recognition in line with accounting policies. Manage the monthly close process related to revenue, analytical review and other related procedures.
• Monitor the billing and collections team, including proactively driving collection efforts, escalating overdue accounts when needed, partnering with Sales teams to push for timely payments, tracking collection risks, and ensuring adherence to the company's collections policy.
• Managing the entities worldwide (USA, Latvia and Germany) - overseeing accounting functions, monthly reporting packages, monthly close process and some payroll aspects.
• Coordinating and/or preparing tax schedules, VAT returns, tax returns and other statutory reports in local GAAP for all entities.
• Manage audit preparation and coordinate with external auditors as needed.
• Ad Hoc integration projects.

Optimal Skills for Success:
• CPA certification
• 1-2 years of similar experience from global hi-tech companies
• Experience in the preparation of financial reports based on US GAAP
• Strong EXCEL experience
• High level of English
• Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment
• Attention to details
• Well-organized with the ability to prioritize
• Self-learner with the ability to adapt to changing business needs and technologies
• Team player

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.