Managing Consultant

**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**

Managing Consultant (Digital & Payments Transformation)

Managing Consultant (Digital & Payments Transformation) - Advisors & Consulting Services (Strategy & Transformation)

Advisors & Consulting Services

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. 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. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.

Roles and Responsibilities

Client Impact

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

Team Collaboration & Culture

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

**Qualifications**:
Basic qualifications

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 the local office language (if applicable)

Preferred qualifications

12-15 years of work experience in payments consulting, Card Payments Product Presales

Strong card payments domain knowledge with strong understanding or card payment network processing guidelines

Provide specialized knowledge on Card payment platforms, and related technologies to Mastercard Clients

Strong technical background in platform & cards data migrations, architecture & associated card technologies (card controls, tokenization etc.)

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

**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.