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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.
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Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Performance Analytics To the right you'll find the specific sections of the Job Description which will be posted on our Career sites.To ensure the best posting possible, please replace all the text in red with the relevant information.
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Overview
Join the data revolution! MasterCard Advisors is helping to shape the future of data insights by leveraging billions of anonymised, aggregated transactions in a 10 petabyte date warehouse to help financial institutions, merchants, media, and governments manage their businesses more effectively. Be part of an Analytics Center of Excellence that is developing consumer insights that are reshaping how businesses make decisions.
Advanced Analytics is charged with servicing Consulting Services, Information Services and Managed Services by centralizing and optimizing the world class analytical, modeling, software coding, data sourcing, product development, product management, econometrics, and associated delivery capabilities of the MasterCard Advisors organization.
Use broad retail, capital markets, media, and/or payments industry experience and deep knowledge of the application of big data quantitative analytics to provide hands-on support for information product development and custom analytical project delivery that satisfies and retains a global client base..
Role
Project Delivery and Solution Design
Hands-on analysis of the retailer database using the full suite of Advisors analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, R, Excel, and specific internal tools, to create timely, relevant and actionable insights.
Independently manage and deliver projects with all levels of complexity.
Effectively manage projects, tasks and stakeholders to ensure that projects are delivered on time and with highest quality.
QA of own code and that of team members to ensure the highest quality of end-products.
Building analysis brief to transform business question into analysis. Contribute in strategic analysis planning.
Identify opportunities for standardization & automation of existing solutions and processes to enable Advisors to realize the maximum potential from our teams.
Challenge and improve analytical capability through development of tools or processes that offer optimization opportunities
Establish and maintain clear communication between various business partners and clients regarding project scope, timelines and deliverables.
Contribute to development of team knowledge base by participating in workshops and trainings.
Work directly with one of the world's largest data warehouses to deliver optimized data extracts, data visualizations, and detailed reports to support consulting engagements, campaign measurement, business intelligence, predictive modeling, and scoring applications.
Support global Advisors solution delivery in North America, Europe, APMEA, Latin America
Work with Advanced Analytics colleagues worldwide including project status reporting
Require to travel to client offices across the globe to deliver projects as per requirement
All About You
Education Needed:
Bachelors in quantitative field e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Econometrics, Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research. M.S or MBA preferred.
Experience Needed:
5-7 years of experience in hands-on data mining, analysis and modeling, report development using large volumes of granular data to deliver analytics solutions for retail clients
Ability to easily move between business, analytical, and technical teams and articulate solution requirements for each group
Experience with quality control and data validation
Relevant retail industry experience in analyzing SKU level data in the areas of pricing, promotions, ranging and assortment, customer communication, loyalty, etc.
Proven experience in using analysis to understand the behaviors, motivations and needs of customers in a retail environment and the use of this insight to create new strategies to grow long-term customer value
Ability to understand complex operational systems and business intelligence tools for the developing information products and analytical offerings to a large, global client base
Knowledge and application of statistical methods
Strong SAS, SQL, MS-Excel-VBA and PowerPoint skills.
Experience working in Hadoop environments a plus
Experience in statistical analysis techniques is a plus
Excellent English, quantitative, technical, and communication - both oral and written
Analytical/Problem Solving
Creativity/Innovation
Ability to handle/analyse large datasets efficiently
Self-driven, operates with a sense of urgency
Flexible to work with global offices across several time zones
Strong team player
The following All About Us paragraph will appear at the top of each Job Posting for MasterCard.
All About Us
MasterCard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment.
Join the industry's most passionate, motivated & engaged global team - Our employees are encouraged to drive innovation every day in support of a more connected world – A World Beyond Cash.
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.
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