Mastercard
Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation
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This role involves collaborating with clients to develop strategies using data and technology solutions, as well as managing stakeholder relationships and presentations.
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
Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation
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 Advisors & Consulting Services 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 Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client's overall strategy, performance, and operations.
Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience: https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/consulting-specializations-at-mastercard
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Impact• Provide creative input on projects across a range of industries and problem statements• Contribute to the development of strategies and programs for regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value• Collaborate with Mastercard team to understand clients' needs, agenda, and risks• Develop working relationship with client analysts/managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner
Team Collaboration & Culture• Collaborate with senior project delivery consultants to identify key findings, prepare effective presentations, and deliver recommendations to clients• Independently identify issues in defined area of analysis, and structure and synthesize own analysis to highlight relevant findings• Lead internal and client meetings, and contribute to project management• Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital• Receive mentorship from consulting leaders for professional growth and development
Qualifications
Basic qualifications• Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management• Relevant client or internal stakeholder management experience• Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis• 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• Ability to travel to client sites on a semi-regular basis
Preferred qualifications• Ability to identify problems, brainstorm and analyze answers, and implement the best solutions• Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties• Relevant industry expertise
Base Salary Range; 97,000.00 - 139,000.00 USD Annual
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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:
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
Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation
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 Advisors & Consulting Services 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 Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client's overall strategy, performance, and operations.
Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience: https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/consulting-specializations-at-mastercard
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Impact• Provide creative input on projects across a range of industries and problem statements• Contribute to the development of strategies and programs for regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value• Collaborate with Mastercard team to understand clients' needs, agenda, and risks• Develop working relationship with client analysts/managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner
Team Collaboration & Culture• Collaborate with senior project delivery consultants to identify key findings, prepare effective presentations, and deliver recommendations to clients• Independently identify issues in defined area of analysis, and structure and synthesize own analysis to highlight relevant findings• Lead internal and client meetings, and contribute to project management• Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital• Receive mentorship from consulting leaders for professional growth and development
Qualifications
Basic qualifications• Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management• Relevant client or internal stakeholder management experience• Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis• 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• Ability to travel to client sites on a semi-regular basis
Preferred qualifications• Ability to identify problems, brainstorm and analyze answers, and implement the best solutions• Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties• Relevant industry expertise
Base Salary Range; 97,000.00 - 139,000.00 USD Annual
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.
Top Skills
Excel
PowerPoint
Word
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