Senior Managing Consultant, Digital Transformation SME, Delivery, Data & Services

Job Description

Our PurposeWe 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 TitleSenior Managing Consultant, Digital Transformation SME, Delivery, Data & ServicesAll About UsMasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of MasterCard Worldwide, provides payments-focused consulting, marketing, information and risk management services to financial institutions and merchants worldwide.With its unique category expertise, deep understanding of customer needs and successful track record in addressing complex challenges throughout the payments life-cycle, MasterCard Advisors addresses the challenges and opportunities of its clients, enhances MasterCards strategic and tactical performance and establishes MasterCards global thought-leadership preeminence.We provide an unrivalled employee experience through:? Diversity of people and projects: Our teams manage multiple strategic projects and collaborate with individuals across the world, while taking leadership roles in their areas of interest? Empowerment and Development: We provide accelerated and rewarding career paths in a fast growing consulting team within a culture of skill development? Workplace flexibility: We value work-life balance and encourage a flexible work environment so our consultants can deliver high performance projects while enjoying our personal lives? Innovative environment: We deliver impactful strategy and marketing engagements and develop informed recommendations, facilitated by Mastercard?s transaction data and innovative proprietary technologies? Network of experts: Mastercard provides us with a pool of experts on payments and financial industry, which helps build high client satisfaction and development? Opportunities beyond consulting: Grow your career in consulting, or embrace other opportunities across this global organizationWe are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for data-driven consulting, to join us and take a leading role in shaping the growth of our team.All About You? We are looking for a Senior Managing Consultant to become an active team member who contributes to digital projects and manages medium to complex engagements for MasterCard Advisors clients.? This individual is expected to be a subject matter expert in the digital payments and is expected to demonstrate expertise in digital transformation as well as consulting engagement management a in the payment industry.? Contributes towards the development of digital strategies and transformation programs for large, strategically important regional and global clients? Implements/communicates strategies to achieve goals, acts as advisor to and maintains ongoing relationships with client executives? Rigorously and logically identify issues covering entire client problems? Generates key hypotheses and independently structures work at project level? Synthesizes analyses into clear, sound recommendations; takes responsibility for structuring and writing reports and steering committee presentations? Animate and drive client during key project meetings? Reviews reports to ensure accuracy, quality and timeliness? Assumes overall project management responsibilities for projects; identifies project staffing resources & develops, defines and reviews required analyses including building story line? Delivers project margin? Develops effective working relationships with senior-level client management? Proactively seeks new knowledge and structures client work to facilitate the capture of Intellectual Capital with minimal oversight? Supports MasterCard Advisors and local market account teams in client relationship management and business development effortsQualifications? Education: Bachelor degree or equivalent qualification, advanced degree or MBA preferred? Must have experience working in a digital fintech or a strategic consulting company in the digital domain? Expertise gained in Retail Banking and/or Payment Industry is a must? Demonstrated ability to own and develop relationships with both mid- and executive-level client contacts and inspire confidence in Mastercard as a sought-after partner? Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to bring data-driven solutions to ambiguous client challenges? Ability to work in a team or independently? People management skills gained by managing consultants on projects and / or having experience in managing direct reports? Languages: Fluent verbal and written English, other language skills highly desirable? Ability to travel 50% to countries throughout MEA and potentially Europe? Candidates must be eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needsCOVID-19 Considerations We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we?re all in this together.In many locations, which may change over time, we?ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in some locations, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted inside Mastercard offices until further notice.In the US, Mastercard is a government contractor, which may legally require most Mastercard employees to be vaccinated unless a verified approved medical or religious exemption is granted. Further, we are currently making every effort towards having employees return to work in the office 2 days per week, if that makes sense for their team. Everyone must be vaccinated to enter Mastercard offices at this time. Therefore, we expect all candidates to be vaccinated or to be approved for a medical or religious accommodation prior to commencing work at Mastercard.Corporate Security ResponsibilityAll 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.

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