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About the Role

This Specialist Analyst role is at the intersection of analytics, market intelligence, and strategic storytelling, focusing on making sense of a complex, fast-evolving external environment and shaping how Mastercard understands and responds to it. You will own core strategic products that inform leadership thinking and decision-making, shaping how Mastercard anticipates change, positions itself in markets, and communicates its point of view on the evolving future of payments.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain core datasets that serve as strategic intelligence tools for the team.
Ensure data is accurate, structured, and continuously updated based on external developments.
Evolve datasets to surface patterns, trends, and strategic implications, not just track information.
Partner across MA to integrate these assets into broader insights, reporting, and strategy work.
Support ongoing signals monitoring by tracking external developments across markets, policy, and competitors.
Author high-quality newsletters and insight pieces on the future of payments, geopolitics, and localization trends.
Translate complex concepts into clear, structured, and compelling narratives.
Help shape Mastercard’s internal perspective on market, regulatory, and ecosystem shifts.
Design, build, and maintain dashboards tracking localization and business performance metrics.
Generate insights, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and clarity for executive audiences.
Contribute to strategy development, executive presentations, and playbooks.
Partner with cross-functional and regional teams to drive initiatives forward.
Support team communications, knowledge management, and content platforms.
Improve processes and ways of working with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Requirements

Advanced Excel required.
Data modeling and statistical analysis an advantage.
Able to translate data into clear, insightful narratives.
Proven ability to produce crisp, structured, high-quality written content (e.g., newsletters, reports, briefings).
Strong editorial judgment and attention to detail.
Intellectually curious with the ability to connect business, payments innovation, and global/regulatory dynamics.
Self-starter who can build from scratch, iterate quickly, and “get hands dirty”.
Strong execution mindset in ambiguous environments.
Team-oriented with a strong sense of shared ownership; willing to lean in to ensure team success.
High attention to detail and pride in producing accurate, polished work.
Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Experience working across markets strongly preferred.
English fluency required.
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must: 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, and Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Skills

Data modeling
Statistical analysis
Storytelling
Writing
Editorial judgment
Attention to detail
Analytical thinking
Problem-solving
Communication
Collaboration
Organization
Strategic thinking
Execution
Global mindset

Location

200+ countries and territories worldwide

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.
The global payments landscape is undergoing rapid and structural change, driven by geopolitical fragmentation, regulatory activism, and the rise of sovereign digital infrastructure.
Governments are playing an increasingly active role in shaping domestic payments ecosystems, redefining competitive dynamics and creating both risk and opportunity for global networks like Mastercard.
The Localization & Market Transformation team exists in response to this environment.
We drive Mastercard’s enterprise-wide commitment to showing up locally and winning domestically (“Domestic Relevance”), ensuring our strategies, solutions, and narratives are credible, competitive, and effective in local markets and with governments.
Within this, the Signals & Localization Readiness team sits at the forefront of anticipating change.
The team identifies emerging signals across payments, geopolitics, and technology, translates them into business implications, and enables Mastercard to proactively position for advantage.
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.