Senior Business Analyst

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.

Title and Summary

Senior Business Analyst

Overview
- This is a Senior Analyst role responsible for supporting the analysis and implementation of product, system and operational initiatives supporting changes in Mastercard's business environment with a specialized focus on Settlement Service offerings, settlement/liquidity risks, controls, policies, and operations.
- Liaise between the business and IT, eliciting and translating external and internal customer needs into IT objectives, identifying possible solutions, and defining project requirement.
- Have a deep knowledge of customer needs, products and services.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manages medium-sized projects/initiatives as an individual contributor with knowledge in global payments and settlement discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or contributing to a larger initiative.
- Translates communicated customer needs into specific objectives.
- Identifies solutions for less complex, more common issues.
- Defines settlement project requirements and priorities, estimates necessary resources and develops detailed selection evaluation criteria.
- Coordinates impact to vendor and company workflow for a new product
- Understands business context and market dynamics including Regulatory, Legal, Competitive and Technology landscapes.
- Leverages a thorough understanding of the Agile Software Development Lifecycle methodology to partner with Product Management - Technical and Software Development Guilds to develop scalable and sustainable products.
- Partners with and incorporates feedback from cross-functional stakeholders.
- Drive institutionalized knowledge with consistent product documentation (e.g., support documents) across the framework

Experiences
- Moderate professional experience in financial services, cards, payments or another related field
- Understands MasterCard’s product delivery process
- Experience working at MasterCard facilities and on Customer business locations
- Analysis or testing experience required
- Experience building relationships and working with technical, business and financial partners

Skills/ Abilities:

- Must possess good verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong understanding of software methodologies (i.e. functionality & limitations)
- Requires less supervision.
- Good leadership skills preferred.

Education
- Bachelors in finance or similar field or equivalent work experience required.

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.