Consultant, Delivery at MasterCard

Job ID: R-98137
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

Job Description Summary

• Mastercard Advisors, the professional services arm of Mastercard Worldwide, provides payments-focused consulting, marketing, information and risk management services to financial institutions, merchants and governments worldwide. With its unique category expertise, deep understanding of customer needs and successful track record in addressing complex challenges throughout the payments lifecycle, Mastercard Advisors addresses the challenges and opportunities of its clients, enhances Mastercard's strategic and tactical performance and establishes Mastercard's global thought-leadership pre-eminence.

Role Description and Major Responsibilities

• Consulting engagement delivery, interact with mid- to senior- level clients and internal partners. Rigorously and logically identify issues covering entire client problem, including:
• Perform sophisticated, hypotheses-driven analysis with broad oversight
• Synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations
• Create effective, impactful and quality assured storylines and slides
• Identify creative and useful additional analyses required and suggest new paradigms for recommendations
• Independently assess client agenda, internal culture and change readiness.
• Develop effective working relationships with mid-level client management and engage audience with verbal communications and presentations
• Build peer relationships with key team members to identify opportunities to broaden relationships
• Engage in client communications with client peer group within the framework of the overall communications strategy
• Proactively seek opportunities to support proposal preparation
• Identify client challenges and formulate ideas on opportunities to leverage Mastercard Advisors capabilities, surfacing these to senior Advisors staff
• Actively contributes to Special Interest Groups by participating in creating points of view, articles, methodologies
• Proactively seeks opportunities to lead small projects

Education Needed:

• Undergraduate degree required
• MBA or relevant post graduate degree recommended

Experience and Skills Needed:

• Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or merchants preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills