{"id":1152129,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-director-controller-2","title":"Director, Controller","company":{"id":252,"name":"Mastercard","domain":"mastercard.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/mastercard","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":90,"open_postings":157,"ghost_share":0.013,"stale_share":0.529,"repost_share":0.051,"time_to_fill_p50_days":18,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Pune, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":39000,"max_usd":86000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1241},"experience_years_min":14,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T18:17:25Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T21:25:52Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Our Purpose\nMastercard 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.\nTitle and Summary\nDirector, ControllerOverviewThe SOA Controller is responsible for end-to-end controllership and financial governance across assigned SOA legal entities. The role partners with regional and global finance teams to deliver accurate and timely financial reporting, maintain a strong control environment, support statutory and regulatory obligations, and provide clear financial insight to business and finance stakeholders.\nThe successful candidate will combine strong accounting judgement with disciplined execution, stakeholder leadership and a continuous-improvement mindset. The role requires the ability to operate across multiple entities and jurisdictions, identify and resolve complex accounting or process issues, and strengthen standardisation and automation across the controllership agenda.\nRole\nOwn the controllership agenda for assigned SOA entities, including financial close oversight, balance-sheet governance, statutory reporting, audit support and entity-level compliance.\nLead the review of monthly and quarterly results, investigating unusual movements, assessing accounting treatment and ensuring that issues are resolved or escalated promptly.\nMaintain a robust control environment by ensuring key controls are designed appropriately, performed on time, evidenced clearly and updated when processes or risks change.\nMonitor differences between US GAAP and applicable local accounting frameworks or IFRS, ensuring required adjustments are understood, documented and recorded accurately.\nPartner with tax, treasury, legal, payroll, shared-services and business finance teams to address entity-level accounting, funding, governance and compliance matters.\nSupport board, regulator, banking and other external-stakeholder requirements by providing accurate financial information and clear explanations within agreed timelines.\nDrive standardisation, simplification and automation of reporting and controllership processes, including effective use of financial-statement and workflow tools.\nProvide practical accounting guidance to stakeholders, document conclusions and ensure significant judgements are supported by appropriate analysis and approvals.\nManage priorities across multiple deadlines, maintain transparent status reporting, and proactively communicate risks, dependencies and decisions to senior stakeholders.\nCoach and develop finance professionals, promote effective knowledge transfer and contribute to a collaborative, accountable and inclusive team culture.\nAll about you\nQualified accountant or equivalent professional finance qualification, with 14+ years post-qualification experience in controllership, financial reporting, audit or a related discipline.\nStrong knowledge of financial accounting and reporting, with practical experience applying US GAAP, IFRS and/or local statutory accounting requirements.\nDemonstrated experience managing financial close, statutory accounts, external audits, balance-sheet governance and internal controls across complex legal-entity structures.\nAbility to analyse complex financial information, form well-supported conclusions and communicate accounting matters clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.\nProven ability to build relationships across functions, geographies and levels of seniority, including external auditors, advisers, banks or regulators where relevant.\nStrong organisation and project-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes under demanding timelines.\nContinuous-improvement orientation, including experience standardising processes, strengthening controls and using technology or automation to improve quality and efficiency.\nHigh standards of integrity, ownership, attention to detail and professional judgement.\nCorporate Security Responsibility\nAll 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:\nAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;\n\nEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;\n\nReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and\n\nComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4900,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":14,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Credit Cards","FinTech","Payments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T18:17:25Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:4","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T01:45:42Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-director-controller-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-director-controller-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T01:45:42Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}