Our Purpose

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.

Title and Summary

Consultant, Advisors – Performance Analytics

Consultant, Advisors – Performance Analytics

Advisors & Consulting Services, Services

Mastercard Services provides cutting-edge data analysis and services to Fortune 500s, governments, and nonprofits to make multimillion-dollar business decisions and grow their organizations. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard’s rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Mastercard Advisors works with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.
The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Performance Analytics consultants translate data into insights by leveraging Mastercard and customer data to design, implement, and scale analytical solutions for customers. They use qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques and enterprise applications to synthesize analyses into clear recommendations and impactful narratives.
Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience: https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/consulting-specializations-at-mastercard

Roles and Responsibilities

Client Impact
•\tProvide creative input on projects across a range of industries and problem statements
•\tContribute to the development of analytics strategies and programs for regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value
•\tCollaborate with Mastercard team to understand clients’ needs, agenda, and risks
•\tDevelop working relationship with client analysts/managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner

Team Collaboration & Culture
•\tCollaborate with senior project delivery consultants to identify key findings, prepare effective presentations, and deliver recommendations to clients
•\tIndependently identify trends, patterns, issues, and anomalies in defined area of analysis, and structure and synthesize own analysis to highlight relevant findings
•\tLead internal and client meetings, and contribute to project management
•\tContribute to the firm's intellectual capital
•\tReceive mentorship from performance analytics leaders for professional growth and development

Qualifications

Basic qualifications
•\tUndergraduate degree with data and analytics experience in business intelligence and/or descriptive, predictive, or prescriptive analytics
•\tExperience managing clients or internal stakeholders
•\tAbility to analyze large datasets and synthesize key findings
•\tProficiency using data analytics software (e.g., Python, R, SQL, SAS)
•\tAdvanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
•\tAbility to perform multiple tasks with multiple clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
•\tAbility to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable)
•\tEligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

Preferred qualifications
•\tAdditional data and analytics experience in building, managing, and maintaining database structures, working with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), or working with Hadoop framework and coding using Impala, Hive, or PySpark
•\tKnowledge of Machine Learning concepts and experience in developing models or integrating ML solutions into business applications.
•\tAbility to analyze large datasets and synthesize key findings to provide recommendations via descriptive analytics and business intelligence
•\tExperience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment
•\tAbility to identify problems, brainstorm and analyze answers, and implement the best solutions
•\tRelevant industry expertise

Corporate Security Responsibility

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.