Vice President, Integrated Marketing Communications - Intelligence & Financial Operations, Americas

Mastercard•Purchase, NY

About The Position

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide, helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. They support digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart, and accessible through technology, innovation, partnerships, and networks. The Vice President of IMC Intelligence & Financial Operations, Americas holds a critical leadership role in shaping strategic planning, business reporting, and financial operations for the Americas IMC organization. This leader understands Mastercard’s brand performance, maps workflows, and advances AI transformation opportunities for the Americas organization, with a particular focus on sales enablement. The role involves close partnership with senior stakeholders to identify brand performance opportunities, align investment decisions, optimize performance, and scale the impact of IMC initiatives, ensuring Mastercard remains differentiated as a marketing and payments industry leader.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, or a related field
Strong analytical and strategic thinking
Executive‑level communication and presentation abilities
Proficiency in financial management and data analytics
Proven ability to lead, influence, and partner across high‑performing teams
Clear point of view on the brand and media landscape, with the ability to scale marketing impact across the organization
Demonstrated experience translating strategy into actionable plans that deliver measurable outcomes and business growth
Ability to anticipate investment scenarios and shape forward‑looking perspectives that unlock brand and business opportunities
Recognized for reliability, collaboration, and strong cross‑functional partnership
Experience working across both consumer and business‑to‑business marketing teams.
Commitment to fostering a culture of learning, partnership, and action
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
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

Owns planning of the NAM IMC financial budget, setting the annual and multi‑quarter investment framework that aligns resources to strategic priorities, growth opportunities, and business outcomes.
Provides active financial oversight and governance by tracking planned and ad hoc spend, ensuring obligations are met, surfacing risks early, and delivering clear visibility into performance versus plan.
Leads vendor onboarding and management by coordinating setup, compliance, and engagement to ensure efficient activation aligned with enterprise requirements.
Ensures timely invoice approval and financial close‑out by overseeing end‑to‑end invoicing workflows, proactively resolving issues, and maintaining discipline against payment schedules and controls.
Is a key contributor to the development, tracking, and optimization of the integrated Americas IMC strategic plan and quarterly business reviews—aggregating objectives and activities across stakeholders, identifying priorities and tradeoffs, and advancing breakthrough ideas and innovations.
Drives regional and global transparency into IMC efforts through “Know your work” exercises, highlighting success stories, and identifying opportunities to scale creative briefs and initiatives with improved ROI.
Lead executive‑level quarterly business reviews (Americas LT) and thought leadership by shaping clear, compelling narratives that translate strategy, insights, and market context into high‑impact communications.
Drive preparation for key business reviews by partnering cross‑functionally to synthesize inputs, align stakeholders, and equip leadership with cohesive, insight‑led storylines and materials.
Lead the Americas team through a transformation how we measure and track our Mastercard brand performance to serve both global and regional requirements.
Stay abreast of competitive & industry activities, threats & opportunities, translating them into tangible actions to be taken by the broader IMC Americas team.
Lead critical workstreams on defining the use cases and workflows powered by AI and technology for the broader Americas organization, including onboarding & piloting new capabilities with vendors, redefining how work is completed with the support of AI, and setting up the KPIs to measure outcomes.
Bring best practices to the team and, in connection with their strategic planning, allocate and prioritize budgets to accelerate the Americas transformation.

Benefits

insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
flexible spending account
health savings account
paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
25 days of vacation time
5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
deferred compensation for eligible roles
fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
eligibility for tuition reimbursement