Description
Mastercard's 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.
As a Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Deploy, you will manage individual projects with minimal supervision, including tracking metrics, handling complex analyses, and preparing communications to report back to client and internal leadership.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide input on multiple small and large high-value projects across a range of industries and problem statements
- Contribute proven, accredited change skills, domain experience, and delivery methodology to help clients drive measurable value
- Collaborate with Mastercard team to understand clients' needs, challenges, agenda, and risks
- Develop working relationship with client analysts/managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner
- Identify resources and assign responsibilities, track, and forecast effort and report on expense vs. earned value
Requirements:
- Undergraduate degree with work experience in project management and change management methodologies and techniques
- 2-3 years of Project Management experience
- Exposure to financial institutions, payments, and/or consultancies
- Relevant teamwork and client or internal stakeholder management experience
- Logical, structured thinking
- 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)
- 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
Preferred qualifications:
- Have completed or interested in pursuing recognized professional accreditation, such as Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Knowledge of Project Management tools
- Exposure to payments and/or retail banking or merchants
- Ability to identify problems, brainstorm and analyze answers, and implement the best solutions