Drive client engagements in fraud and authorization consulting overseeing project delivery and providing strategic insights. Mentor junior team members and develop impactful business recommendations using data and technology solutions.

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 Advisors & Consulting Services (S&T) - Fraud and Authorizations Focus
Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring engaging and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk enhancing cybersecurity and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise data-driven insights and execution. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard's rich data assets proprietary platforms and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.
The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation Performance Analytics Business Experimentation Marketing and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic tactical operational and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client's overall strategy performance and operations.
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Impact• Drive key client engagements across a range of industries and types of consulting projects acting as a participant in and overseeing quality across authorizations fraud and chargeback payments projects• Work with technology and data to generate key hypotheses and independently structure workstreams to address client problems• Oversee the day-to-day work of the junior project delivery team to identify creative and useful banking analyses to address client problems and synthesize analyses into clear sound recommendations• Create effective impactful storylines and slides.• Contribute to and/or develop strategies and programs for large regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value• Manage working relationship with client managers and act as trusted and reliable partner
Team Collaboration & Culture• Develop sound business recommendations and deliver effective client presentations• Mentor junior teammates and contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development• Lead team and external meetings and lead or co-lead project management • Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development• Grow from coaching to enable ownership of day-to-day project management across client projects and mentor junior consultants
Qualifications
Basic qualifications• Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting corporate strategy business intelligence business line management fraud operations management or product management• Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders • Advanced Word Excel and PowerPoint skills• Ability to perform multiple tasks with multiple clients in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment• Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable)• Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs• Ability to travel to client sites on a semi-regular basis
Preferred qualifications• Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties• Strong knowledge of competitive technology capabilities• Deep understanding of the payment ecosystem; Issuing Acquiring Merchant• Understanding of Life Cycle and Account Management• Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking fraud & claims management technology solutions• Experience coaching junior delivery consultants • Relevant industry expertise• MBA or master's degree with relevant specialization (not required)
Mastercard is a merit-based inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender gender identity sexual orientation race ethnicity disabled or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors including but not limited to location job-related knowledge skills and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical prescription drug dental vision disability life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
Arlington Virginia: $118000 - $176000 USD