Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors - Performance Analytics

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
Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors - Performance Analytics
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.
Consultant, Advisors Client Services, Data & Services
Mastercard Data & Services provides cutting-edge data analysis and services to Fortune 500s, governments, and nonprofits to make multimillion-dollar business decisions and grow their organizations. Our Advisors Client Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard's rich data assets and in-house technologies to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Mastercard Advisors work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and finance.
The Advisors Client Services group has five specializations: Performance Analytics, Strategy & Transformation, Business Experimentation, Marketing and Project Management. Our Performance Analytics consultants use AI, Machine learning and BI platforms, develop cutting edge insights and products for our clients using Mastercard, customer & 3rd party data assets. Apply qualitative and quantitative techniques on our enterprise applications (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, NiFi, Python, Impala, and more) to deliver solutions and products that creates business impact. Get hands-on to design, implement & scale analytical solutions for customers across industries.
Positions for these different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please apply to the position that is best suited to your background and experience.
If you want additional information regarding the different career levels and specializations within Advisors, visit the Advisors Client Services Specializations webpage.
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Impact• Manage deliverable development and workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements• Contribute to/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 firm's 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 business intelligence and/or descriptive, predictive, or prescriptive analytics projects • Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders • Able to analyze large datasets and synthesize key findings to provide recommendations via descriptive analytics and business intelligence• Data and analytics experience:• Data analytics software (e.g., Python, R, SQL, SAS)• Building, managing, and maintaining database structures• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills• Able to perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment• Able to communicate effectively in English and the local office language• Eligible to work in the country where they are applying and for travel visas as required by travel needs
Preferred qualifications• Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment• Experience coaching junior delivery consultants • Additional data and analytics experience:• Hadoop framework and coding using Impala, Hive, or Psypark• Data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)• Relevant industry expertise• MBA or master's degree with relevant specialization (not 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.