Analyst, Opportunity & Risk assessment at Mastercard

Job description

Requirements

Function & Project Overview:

• MasterCard Southern Africa Division has a need to appoint an Opportunity & Risk Assessment individual to work on Domestic settlement business cases for the following markets: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique and Seychelles. Working within MasterCard's business group model, the Analyst is responsible for performing an independent research and data collection on assigned targeted markets.
• The Analyst must have the ability to apply analytical skills and due diligence to identify and evaluate strategic business opportunities as well as advocate for an executive strategic decision on business investment for Domestic settlement in each of the identified markets.
• The business cases will seek approval to revise the domestic (intra-country) interchange rates for prepaid, credit, debit and Masterpass QR transactions in specified Emerging Markets within the Southern Africa Division across various merchant categories to support MasterCard’s growth across the Division.

Role

• Market environment analysis
• Market payments landscape
• Gather market information on current domestic interchange pricing
• Market domestic volume potential
• Interchange bench marking per different merchant segments
• Economic value analysis - LVP
• Risk/opportunities evaluation

Desired Skills/Abilities

• Results orientation
• Strong Analytical ability
• Commitment; passion and energy
• Accountable and responsible
• Experience conducting accurate financial analysis and building financial models in a timely manner
• Exposure to working with large data sets and synthesizing large amounts of information quickly
• Understands end-to-end process from opportunity identification and analysis to due diligence and decision making recommendations
• Demonstrated initiative in building relationships with colleagues from multiple areas within MasterCard
• Experience navigating the organization to find internal resources and tools