Jobs at Mastercard

As a consultant, you will have the opportunity to build a broader set of skills and master a wider array of content, before you ‘major’ in any one product. This will inject more flexibility into your career path and at the same time make for a more engaging journey.

As a Consultant, You Will

• Work in small teams to solve our clients' most challenging strategic problems through data-driven solutions.
• Apply a range of quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques to rigorously identify client issues and synthesize the analysis into clear, sound recommendations.
• Organize and structure project plans to meet deliverables at budget.
• Extract intellectual capital from engagement work and actively develop and share tools, methods and best practices across projects.
• Collaborate with motivated peers who are passionate about what they do.
• Mentor junior teammates on analytical and technical skill sets.
• Build strong relationships with manager level clients and internal stakeholders to guide impactful decisions.
• Grow your career by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team.
• Have an immediate opportunity for meaningful contributions, increased responsibility, leadership roles, and professional advancement.
• Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and quickly gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management.
• Receive extensive training focusing on helping you build your core consulting skill set.

Bring your Passion and Expertise

We Recruit For And Value The Following Core Competencies

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.
• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills.
• Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.
• Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.
• Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude.
• Integrity: Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from our mistakes.
• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated leadership abilities.

Qualifications And Experience

• Degree in a quantitative field.
• Demonstrable consulting skills.
• Exceptional analytical, interpretive and problem solving skills, including the proven ability to analyse large amounts of data and synthesize key findings and recommendations.
• Experience using data analysis or querying tools such as SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau.
• Strong presence & communication skills. Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent client management & engagement management skills; collaborates well across multiple communication channels.
• Proven team player with proven ability to work with all levels in a highly intellectual, collaborative, and fast paced environment.

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The Mastercard Intern Program is a 4 week full time program (which can be extended for another 8 weeks on a part time basis depending on candidate’s availability) where students will gain hands on real work-life skills while having fun and contributing to a global company. As an intern, you will be challenged with completing projects that will enhance your skills as well as contribute to the department’s goals and objectives.
Program Dates

July, 2019 – September, 2019

Components

• Impactful assignments that drive business results
• Networking sessions and leadership speaker’s series
• Volunteer and team building experiences

Role

The Intern Is a Team Member Who Actively Contributes To External And Internal Projects For MasterCard Data & Services Clients And Will

• Develop working relationship with team lead and the team
• Contribute towards everyday client deliverables
• Develop and produce reports with the support and guidance of the team lead
• Develop analytical skills by ensuring recommendations and insight are included in all

deliverables

• Prepare and deliver presentations with guidance
• Identify client challenges and bring ideas on opportunities to the attention of the team

Program Qualifications

• Open to post-graduate students studying a degree in a quantitative field.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to use data to drive decisions.
• Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk taking.
• Ability to partner across the organization.
• Sound communication skills.