Mastercard - Consultant Advisor

Consultant Advisor

As an Consultant, you will have the opportunity to lead key client engagements across a range of industries and types of projects, such as consulting services, Test & Learn, or data and analytics. Working with technology and data, you will generate key hypotheses and independently structure workstreams covering client problems.

Overseeing the day-to-day work of the project Delivery team, you will identify creative and useful analyses to address client problems, synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations, and create effective, impactful storylines and slides. Responsibilities within project management will include building strong relationships with mid-level client management and independently assessing client agenda, internal culture and change readiness.

In leading the problem-solving process to drive high-value decisions, you will also have the opportunity to mentor junior teammates and contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development. At Mastercard, you are expected to not only have a tremendous impact in transforming our clients, but also have a leading role in shaping the organization's future.

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.

- Project Management: Clear interest in project delivery with business clients, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.

- Communication and Presence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in client-facing situations, positioning Mastercard's solutions as high value solutions in sales and delivery conversations.

- 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.

All About You:

- Sound Knowledge of Analytical tools such as SAS, R, Python (desirable)

- Knowledge of databases such as Oracle, Netezza, SQL Server, Hadoop (desirable)

- Knowledge of data visualization tools such as RShiny, Tableau etc.

- Experience directly managing multiple people across multiple workstreams

- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to form data-driven solutions to ambiguous client challenges

- Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or merchants preferred

- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing - in English and the local office language(s)

- Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with both junior- and senior-level client contacts

- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

- Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills required; SQL / data expertise preferred

- Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position in, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.