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

• 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