Associate Managing Consultant, Mastercard

• Undergraduate or master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, or Engineering
• Credit risk management experience, specifically responsible for managing credit risk policy and credit risk strategies at a North American financial institution
• Knowledge and experience using statistical procedures, segmentation, and financial analytic tools are required
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English and the local office language(s)
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
• Strong knowledge of SAS / SQL / R- or similar analytic coding 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
• Ability to travel to client sites on a semi-regular basis

Desirable

• The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management
• Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges
• They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client’s overall strategy, performance, and operations
• As an Associate Managing Consultant and credit risk subject matter expert, you will support the development of key client strategies and advise on credit risk client engagements
• You will generate key hypotheses and independently structure credit risk engagements to address client problems
• You will be a resource to others to identify creative and useful analyses to address client problems, synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations, and share findings through impactful storylines and slides
• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients
• Credit Risk Focus: This role will serve as an advisor and go-to person for credit risk management, leading credit risk management consulting engagements, supporting sales and product development/refinement as needed, and focused on knowledge sharing and development of team members
• Problem Solving: Manages definition and development of deliverables to solve client problems, and produce actionable recommendations for clients
• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills. The ideal candidate will have strong statistical and data analysis skills, including SAS / SQL / data mining skills
• Project Management: Clear interest in project delivery with business clients, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions and how credit risk helps address clients’ problems
• 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 to achieve positive outcomes
• Teamwork: Creates positive team environment and supports collaboration within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude. As the subject matter expert on project teams, provide on-the-job training on how to more effectively execute credit risk projects
• Commercial Orientation: Ability to support opportunities to leverage credit risk capabilities, including identification of cross-sell opportunities
• 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