Job Title:

Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation

Overview:

Group Description:

MasterCard 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 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:

A Managing Consultant is responsible for leading and managing a consulting engagement. This implies driving the problem solving process, defining a work plan & executing it, managing junior resources and/or third party vendors, managing the day-to-day relationship with clients, and developing & delivering presentation materials.

In particular, the candidate should be able to:
• Rigorously and logically identify, with senior oversight, the issues impacting the project
• Lead problem solving efforts and structure the project work plan
• Lead and manage the project team
• Oversee the accuracy, quality and timeliness of sophisticated, hypotheses-driven and fact-based analysis to be conducted
• Develop conclusions and recommendations
• Develop compelling presentation materials, following well-structured storylines
• Deliver effective presentations to client executives
• Develop effective working relationships with mid-to-senior level client executives
• Coach and provide feedback to junior resources

Education and Qualifications:

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

Experience and skills:

• 10+ years of work experience in a top rated management consulting firm
• Experience in managing projects and teams
• Payments industry experience desirable
• Ability to work on a team or independently
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Spanish and English fluency required