About the Role
Mastercard's Advisors & Consulting Services team leverages rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- Ability to perform multiple tasks with multiple clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to communicate effectively in English and Japanese
- Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs
- Ability to travel to client sites on a semi-regular basis
- Ability 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
- 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
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines
Skills
- Consulting
- Strategy
- Transformation
- Data analysis
- Technology solutions
- Problem-solving
- Presentation
- Project management
- Communication
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
Education Level
- Undergraduate degree
About the Company
- 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.
- Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them.
- Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along.
- Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights.
- People need financial access; we connect them.
- Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple.
- Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way.
- Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them.
- Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers.
- Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.
