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 – Strategy & Transformation

Consultant, Advisors – Strategy & Transformation

Overview

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 Strategy & Transformation consultants lead customers through decision making, tackling strategic, operational, and transformational challenges across diverse topics including product, business drivers, loyalty, innovation, and more. You will apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve clients’ overall strategy, performance, and operations.

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

• 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

• 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

• Able 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

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.