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
Mastercard Graduate Launch Program 2023 - Associate Consultant, Advisors -
Cairo, Egypt
Associate Consultant, Advisors - Launch 2023
The Data & Services 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 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.
Make an Impact as an Associate Consultant
As an Associate Consultant, you will collaborate with exceptional colleagues
to help some of the world's biggest brands answer their most challenging
strategic questions. Working with technology and data, you will gain broad
exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail,
restaurants, hospitality and more.
As an Associate Consultant, you will:
Work on small teams to solve our clients' most challenging strategic problems
Build strong relationships with clients to understand their business needs,
find strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions
Grow your career by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced
management team
Have an immediate opportunity for meaningful contributions, increased
responsibility, leadership roles, and professional advancement
Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and
quickly gain exposure to business development, account management, and product
management
Receive extensive training focusing on helping you build your core consulting
skill set
We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision
for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs, and we are
recruiting for 3 career tracks that make up our team:
Strategy & Transformation
Lead customers through sound decision making as they tackle strategic,
tactical, operational, and transformational challenges, spanning across
diverse topics including product, marketing, loyalty, innovation, and more.
Apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve overall performance
and operations.
Sampling of questions we help our customers answer:
How can a global financial services institution be successful at entering a
hyper competitive new market?
How can a customer improve its operating model to better achieve operational,
financial and strategic goals?
Team members typically support 2-4 projects concurrently, with each project
lasting for approximately 3-6 months.
Performance Analytics
Translate data into insights leveraging Mastercard and customer data. Get
hands-on to design, implement & scale analytical solutions for customers
across industries. Apply qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques
using our enterprise applications (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, NiFi, Python,
Impala, and more) to synthesize analyses into clear recommendations and
impactful narratives.
Sampling of questions we help our customers answer:
How does a financial institution's fraud/authorization metrics fare against
competitors, and what are strategies that can help it be best-in-class?
How is a technology customer's market share changing over time, and are there
any segments where the client is relatively under penetrated?
Team members support several customers concurrently, and produce analyses at
set cadences (i.e., weekly / monthly / quarterly reports)
Business Experimentation
Advise executives on business decisions by leveraging data and applying
science to the way they run their business. Using Mastercard's industry-
leading Predictive Analytics SaaS platform, Test & Learn®, you will work with
customers to identify their key priorities and then design and run business
experiments to establish which ideas work, where, when and how to deploy them,
and what not to do. In working with customers this way, you get to understand
the full range of their business, from new product launches, marketing,
loyalty, and pricing, to operations and strategy.
Sampling of questions we help our customers answer:
Where should a retailer open new stores to maximize profitability and minimize
the cannibalization of nearby omnichannel sales?
What bonus should be provided to someone opening a credit card account to
entice them to use the card regularly?
Team members will typically support 2-4 clients concurrently, and develop a
deep understanding of client business challenges through longer term
engagements (typically 1-2 years between rotations)
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.
Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for
the way that companies make decisions.
Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured
training curriculum and organic development opportunities.
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.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with
demonstrated leadership abilities.
Qualifications:
Undergraduate or master's degree with a target graduation date between Dec
2022 - August 2023
Outstanding record of academic achievement
Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular
activities
Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or
Tableau) is an asset (particularly for Performance Analytics or Business
Experimentation tracks).
Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively - both verbally and in
writing - in English and the local office language(s)
Candidates must be eligible to work in Egypt, as well as eligible to apply for
travel visas as required by travel needs
In your cover letter, please indicate your first and second track preference.
This information will be leveraged to best match applicants with their desired
tracks.
Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend the
majority of your time, however, we encourage and enable working across tracks
to allow team members to acquire a diverse set of skills and experiences.
COVID-19 Considerations
In many locations, we've implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to
interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in our NYC offices, as
required by law, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated against
COVID-19 will be permitted inside Mastercard offices unless a reasonable
accommodation has been approved in advance.
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.