Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title And Summary

Associate Managing Consultant – Deploy

Overview

Make an Impact as an Associate Managing Consultant, Deploy is an execution-oriented client facing competency that applies proven, accredited change skills and domain experience to partner with clients and help them drive measurable value by:

Delivering new products and strategies to market smoothly and efficiently
Successfully implementing complex technology assets and delivering the most challenging transformation programs to create the new business as usual
Strengthening client's internal skills, knowledge and experience in critical areas

Transforming client processes and optimizing their management practices

All About The Role

Deploy is a new suite of consulting solutions designed to respond to fast evolving customer needs for execution support, with a dual mission: deployment and value realization over the entire lifetime of major assets. Value realization is a complex task, we can de-risk the entire client/asset journey, from implementation to adoption, usage, and product evolution. This is done through a set of new capabilities focused on expert execution support, that we are bringing in to complement the traditional Advisors areas of strength.

As an Associate Managing Consultant, you will manage multiple projects within a portfolio providing efficient and effective coordination of a complex range of activities by clearly defining project team and stakeholder roles and responsibilities that are aligned with the delivery of the expected benefits. You will also ensure effective identification of risks and pro-active solutioning to mitigate risks and impact on timelines.

All About You

Experience delivering large, complex projects and programs of varying scale in cross-functional, multicultural environments
Formally trained in a range of project management and change management methodologies and techniques; accreditation in one or more recognized PM/PMO/Change/Service management methodologies is an advantage
Proven ability to plan and manage multi-workstream programs from inception through delivery, providing support, direction, and/or technical expertise to project teams across multiple disciplines and geographies
Strong banking domain knowledge or prior experience working within the banking or financial services industry is required, with a solid understanding of banking operations, products, and regulatory considerations
Demonstrated ability to build a strong presence within the client organization, extending beyond the immediate boundaries of the program
Ability to bring relevant and insightful industry perspectives, ideas, and best practices to key stakeholders within the client organization
Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills; able to clearly define scope, timelines, and budgets both verbally and in writing, and to accurately report on issues, risks, progress, and milestones, summarizing insights with sound analysis, options, and credible solutions
Ability to handle multiple priorities, work independently, think laterally, and manage competing demands under pressure and resource constraints; capable of performing and articulating cost, benefit, and risk analysis
Proven capability to lead, motivate, and develop a team of professionals

All About Your Education & Skills

Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification. Advanced degree or MBA preferred
Professional accreditation such as Project Management Professional (PMP) desirable
Fluent local office language and English required, other languages desirable
Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or merchants preferred
Comfortable with significant client interaction and interest in building relationships
Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills required, knowledge of Project Management tools preferred
Willingness to travel

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.

Associate Managing Consultant Deploy