Job Description

Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a
culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors Client Services
Summary
The Advisors South Asia (ASA) team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions and strategic insights for a diverse global customer base by combining traditional management consulting with rich data assets and in-house technology. While specializing in the payments industry, Mastercard ASA also works closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network.

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for data-driven management consulting, to join us and take a leading role in shaping the growth of our team.

Your Impact as Associate Managing Consultant
As an Associate Managing Consultant, you will have the opportunity to lead key client engagements across a range of industries and types of projects. Your role may involve:
Project Delivery & Client Relationships

• Generating key hypotheses and independently structuring workstreams covering client problems
• Identifying creative and useful analyses to address client problems
• Overseeing the day-to-day work of the Project Delivery team
• Synthesizing analyses into clear, sound recommendations, creating effective, impactful storylines and presentations, and delivering them to clients
• Building strong relationships with mid-level client management and independently assessing client agenda, internal culture and change readiness
• Identifying engagement risks

Firm and Business Development

• Identifying client challenges and bringing ideas on opportunities to the attention of senior Mastercard Advisors staff
• Contributing to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development
• Contributing to proposal preparation
• Taking opportunities to mentor junior teammates

Your Qualifications:
Required

• MBA from a tier-1 institute
• Post-MBA experience. Relevant work experience would include client-facing strategy consulting experience, preferably in financial or other consumer-facing verticals
• Tier-1 Consulting organizations experience would be preferred
• Experience in directly managing a team across multiple workstreams
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to form data-driven solutions to solve ambiguous client challenges
• Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with both junior- and senior-level client contacts
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Presentation skills, ability to communicate complex ideas effectively both verbally and in writing in English
• Advanced PowerPoint, Excel, and Word skills
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position in, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

Preferred

• Exposure specifically to payments / payment acceptance / retail banking businesses

Your Attributes
We recruit for and value the following core competencies:

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients
• Analytical Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills
• Project Management: Clear interest in project delivery with business clients, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions
• Communication and Presence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in client-facing situations, positioning Mastercard’s solutions as high value solutions in sales and delivery conversations
• Teamwork: Willingness to work within small or large teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude
• Integrity: Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from our mistakes
• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity

COVID-19 Considerations
We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together. In many locations, which may change over time, we’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in some locations, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted inside Mastercard offices until further notice.
In the US, Mastercard is a government contractor, which may legally require most Mastercard employees to be vaccinated unless a verified approved medical or religious exemption is granted. Further, we are currently making every effort towards having employees return to work in the office 2 days per week, if that makes sense for their team. Everyone must be vaccinated to enter Mastercard offices at this time. Therefore, we expect all candidates to be vaccinated or to be approved for a medical or religious accommodation prior to commencing work at Mastercard.
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.