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
Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation
MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of MasterCard Worldwide, provides payments-focused consulting, marketing, information and risk management services to financial institutions and merchants worldwide. With its unique category expertise, deep understanding of customer needs and successful track record in addressing complex challenges throughout the payments lifecycle, MasterCard Advisors addresses the challenges and opportunities of its clients, enhances MasterCard's strategic and tactical performance and establishes MasterCard's global thought-leadership pre-eminence.
MasterCard Advisors helps you grow your business through consumer analytics that inform smarter decisions. Advisors data analytics drive actionable insight. Our global consultancy delivers deep industry expertise to make sense of that data, layered with a proprietary marketing approach that drives ROI based on consumer spend behavior.
Do you want to gain exposure to a wide variety of different clients in the payments ecosystem?
Would you enjoy problem solving some of the largest challenges faced by clients?
Do you have the experience, drive, and personality to be successful in the rewarding role as a consultant to some of the industry's leading companies?
ROLE
The Associate Analyst is a team member who actively contributes to delivering consulting projects for MasterCard Advisors clients.
• Contributes towards the development of strategies and programs for large, strategically important regional and global clients• Independently identifies issues in defined area of analysis, structures analysis with oversight and synthesizes own analysis and identifies relevant implications• Support development of recommendations, and prepares and delivers prepared presentations• Leverages understanding of immediate clients' needs and agenda to provide creative input into project• Develops day-to-day working relationship with entry-level management• Identifies engagement risks in immediate area of responsibility• Supports intellectual capital development from client work and incorporate insights from related intellectual capital/project initiatives• Contributes to proposal preparation• Identifies client challenges and bring ideas on opportunities to the attention of senior MasterCard Advisors staff
ALL ABOUT YOU
Education Needed:
Strong undergraduate degree required.
Experience Needed:
Demonstrated experience in the areas of:• Excellent verbal and written communication skills• Excellent analytical skills• Ability to work on a team or independently
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.
Skills Required
- Strong undergraduate degree
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to work effectively on a team
- Ability to work independently
Mastercard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans are presented as best-in-class with a high company match on 401(k) or local equivalents. Career materials and U.S. postings consistently highlight retirement matching as a standout feature.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. postings describe generous paid time off including vacation, personal days, holidays, sick/safe time, and additional bereavement leave. A hybrid policy and a limited “work from elsewhere” option further support time away.
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Parental & Family Support — Company pages state a global minimum of 16 weeks of paid new-parent leave across birth, adoption, and foster, plus family-building assistance where permitted. Mental-health resources and caregiving supports are also emphasized.
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What We Do
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient 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.
Why Work With Us
We live the Mastercard Way: creating value in the communities we touch, growing together through the opportunities we see, and moving fast to innovate and scale. Our collaborative culture and our passionate people are the key to what we do, driving meaningful change as one team and connecting everyone to priceless possibilities.
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