Mastercard - Managing Consultant

Title: Managing Consultant

Overview :

- MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of MasterCard Worldwide, provides consulting services (including business strategy, proposition & operating model design, performance optimization, marketing, information, and risk management) to financial institutions, merchants, and governments worldwide.

- With its unique payments expertize, deep understanding of customer needs and successful track record in addressing complex challenges throughout the payments lifecycle, MasterCard Advisors has established a strong track record of successfully addressing the challenges and opportunities of its clients.

- Are you motivated by developing new consulting models, leading to insights into issues and developing recommendations that add real value to clients.

- Have you led projects with teams with diverse skills and experience

- Do you want to play a key role in driving the world beyond cash

Role :

The Managing Consultant (MC) will be part of the global team formulating, implementing and managing a new consulting delivery model for Mastercard Advisors :

- Responsible for developing top quality work in the centralized configured consulting team

- Help develop a scalable consulting business by developing and deploying established project templates to ensure consistent, high-quality deliverables

- Develop relevant and value-creating analysis and insight for our clients; ensure work is synthesized into clear, sound recommendations with high standard document outputs

- Support development of competency centers on core Advisors configurable offerings within central team

- Develop effective working relationships with mid to senior level colleagues

- Proactively seek new knowledge and skills and facilitate the development of intellectual capital

- Lead small teams of local consultants and analysts undertaking project work

- Monitor configured offering processes and deliverables to identify creative and useful additional and/or alternative analyses and paradigms to improve project quality and economics

All About You :

- Extensive experience in a consulting organization (4-6 years), ideally with exposure to payments business.

- Undergraduate degree required; MBA or relevant post graduate degree recommended

- Core consulting skills including analytics & insights; leveraging and contributing to knowledge management

- Comfortable with high-performance culture; with ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

- Comfortable working with established consulting content frameworks

- English proficiency required; other languages desirable

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Excellent analytical skills

- Experience leading project teams

- Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills