Associate Managing Consultant

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 - Analytics, Advisors Client Services

Associate Managing Consultant - Analytics, Advisors Client Services (Data & Services)

Our Purpose

Your Team

The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing cutting-edge services that help our customers make smarter decisions for better outcomes. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions - Discover, Recommend, Act, and Improve - for a diverse global customer base. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, test-and-learn business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services. While specializing in the payments industry, Mastercard Data & Services also works closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network.

Your Role

As an analytics leader joining our new Vancouver team, be a part of the data revolution. We are helping to shape the future of data-driven insights by leveraging billions of anonymized, aggregated transactions in a 10 petabyte data warehouse to help financial institutions, merchants, media, and governments make better decisions. Be part of a team that is building and optimizing our world class analytical, modeling, data sourcing, econometrics, and product capabilities, and directly contribute to the organization’s strategic vision around broadening our data/AI services. Work across themes including targeting, loyalty, forecasting, credit risk, fraud, open banking, digital identity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more.

Working with technology and data, you can expect to lead client engagements across a range of industries. You will generate hypotheses and independently structure workstreams covering client problems. As an individual contributor and at times, overseeing the day-to-day work of the project team, you will identify creative and useful analyses to address problems, synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations, and create effective, impactful storylines. Responsibilities within project management will include building strong relationships with mid-level client management and independently assessing client agenda, internal culture and change readiness.

In leading the problem-solving process to drive high-value decisions, you will also mentor junior teammates and contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development. At Mastercard, you are expected to not only have a tremendous impact in transforming our clients, but also have a leading role in shaping the organization’s future.

Bring your Passion and Expertise

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.
- Analytic 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 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.

Qualifications:

- Experience in hands-on business analysis, modeling and segmentation and data mining using large volumes of granular data to deliver analytical solutions
- Experience in a consulting organization or function
- Experience managing and/or working with large