Associate Managing Consultant

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. Our team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard s rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.

The group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Performance Analytics consultants translate data into insights by leveraging Mastercard and customer data to design, implement, and scale analytical solutions for customers. They use qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques and enterprise applications to synthesize analyses into clear recommendations and impactful narratives.

Roles and Responsibilities

Client Impact

Manage deliverable development and workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements

Contribute to and/or develop analytics strategies and programs for large, regional, and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value

Manage working relationship with client managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner

Team Collaboration & Culture

Develop sound business recommendations and deliver effective client presentations

Plan, organize, and structure own work and that of junior project delivery consultants to identify effective analysis structures to address client problems and synthesize analyses into relevant findings

Lead team and external meetings, and lead or co-lead project management

Contribute to the firms intellectual capital and solution development

Grow from coaching to enable ownership of day-to-day project management across client projects, and mentor junior consultants

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

Undergraduate degree with data and analytics experience in business intelligence and/or descriptive, predictive, or prescriptive analytics

Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders

Ability to analyze large datasets and synthesize key findings to provide recommendations via descriptive analytics and business intelligence

Data and analytics experience such as working with data analytics software (eg, Python, R, SQL, SAS) and building, managing, and maintaining database structures

Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills

Ability to perform multiple tasks with multiple clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable)

Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

Preferred qualifications

Additional data and analytics experience working with Hadoop framework and coding using Impala, Hive, or PySpark or working with data visualization tools (eg, Tableau, Power BI)

Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment

Experience coaching junior delivery consultants

Relevant industry expertise

MBA or master s degree with relevant specialization (not required)

Corporate Security Responsibility

• 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.