Data Associate Analyst, Cyber Secure - Mastercard Launch 2023

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Job Title

Data Associate Analyst, Cyber Secure - Mastercard Launch 2023

Who is Mastercard?

We are the global technology company behind the world's fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

The Mastercard Launch program is aimed at early career talent, to help you develop skills and gain cross-functional work experience. Over a period of 18 months, Launch participants will be assigned to a business unit, learn and develop skills, and gain valuable on the job experience.

Mastercard Cyber Secure provides a comprehensive cyber security evaluation for an acquirer's merchants, leveraging RiskRecon's scans of public-facing security features. Acquirers utilize this information to improve the security of their portfolio, and thus of the Mastercard network.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product and technical teams to understand product, usage, and data pipelines• Gain subject matter knowledge on website design and architecture, web crawling and scraping techniques, and domain registration data. Advise technical teams in accordance with subject matter knowledge. • Competently handle large datasets, sifting for patterns and trends and translate those insights into technical rules and solutions. • Actively participate in machine learning modeling work, including natural language processing, classification modeling, and image detection.• Partner with other teams (e.g., BRAM, Data Strategy, product development, UI/UX) as needed.• Combine security and transaction data into new and insightful views of an acquirer's portfolio.• Craft internal and customer presentation decks to iteratively gather feedback from team members and customer working groups. • Design metrics to track user engagement and other outcomes of interest, with the aim of increasing engagement and improving the security landscape.

This program is embedded in Cyber Products team, which means the Launcher would get exposure to Mastercard's cyber security offerings. Products are marketed to acquirers, issuers, and merchants. On-going data projects coordinate with many new acquisitions, including RiskRecon, Ethoca, and CipherTrace.

Minimum required: • Graduating senior in December 2022 or May 2023 pursuing Bachelor's/Accelerated Master's Degree • Statistics background. Comfortable with data structures and analysis. • Excellent communication skills. • Proficient at understanding problems, asking questions, and proposing solutions. Helpful: • Background knowledge in any of the following: finance, payments, internet architecture, cyber security. • More advanced exposure to statistical modeling, machine learning, or artificial intelligence. • Coding abilities, particularly with SQL and python.

In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application 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.