Senior Analyst Analytics & Business Insights Europe

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
Senior Analyst Analytics & Business Insights Europe
Overview
The Senior specialist will be in charge of development and maintenance of data capabilities, education of users and other team members, deep data research and insights creation as well as operational tasks and support of other team members.
The candidate will be part of the team at the heart of Mastercard Europe's data. Analytics and Business Insights team seeks to empower everyone in Europe to use data to drive outstanding results. Main stakeholders of the team are sales and business development functions as well as European Management.
The position will enable the candidate to develop deep understanding of Mastercard's data, data analysis and visualization, business insight creation as well as how analytics and business insights are leveraged in different areas of Mastercard's business. You will be in charge of stakeholder interactions and will have direct exposure to the business users of our data products. Cooperating with end users you will be able to understand business processes supported by our team and broader context of Mastercard's business. As part of the team you will have exposure to Mastercard's global network of data and analytics teams and individuals.
Role
In this position, you will:
- Design, develop and deploy new data capabilities working directly with business stakeholders
- Perform data research and analysis at both operational and strategic levels as well as insight generation
- Prepare of business insight snippets and presentations
- Support and own maintenance, update and enhancement of existing data capabilities (dashboards, ETL flows, sematic models, etc)
- Conduct data testing and data reconciliation
- Data tools and capabilities research and study
- Educate various stakeholders on data tools and capabilities
- Conduct data ETL (extract, transform, load) for various projects
- Conduct operational support of Analytics and Business Insights team (e.g. intranet communications, confluence and mailbox handling, access management, stakeholders communications management, etc)
- Prepare data capabilities documentation
- Prepare presentations and other communications
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should have the below profile and key requirements:
- Experience in business consultancy, business intelligence or digital transformation roles is a plus
- Ability to exercise ownership over assigned projects (perception of the projects in a broader context, ability to offer new approaches, respect of deadlines, ability to anticipate and address risks)
- MA/MSc in math, physics, engineering, finance, economy, or computer science
- Fluency in math and passion for numbers (knowledge of business statistics is a plus)
- Agile and proactive thinker with curiosity to learn and eagerness to crack complex topics
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to understand, create and explain complex concepts
- Attention to details and diligence
- Responsible and reliable
- Good at defining problems and opportunities and finding solutions
- Out of box thinking, ability and eagerness to look for non-trivial solutions
- Good communication skills in all situations
- Ability to work with both high level concepts and applied data points
- Ability to work independently and handling different projects at the same time, stress resistant
- Good team player
- Experience with any of the following tools is a major plus: Power BI, Alteryx, SSIS, SQL, Python, Spark, OneLake, Microsoft Fabric
- Software development experience is a plus (either professionally or as a hobby)
- Strong PC User (Excel (with modelling), PowerPoint, etc)
- Fluency in English
Note: Selection process includes a case interview.
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.