Mastercard: Associate Consultant Internships 2024

Mastercard: Associate Consultant Internship Programme 2024

As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will collaborate with exceptional colleagues to help some of the world's biggest brands answer their most challenging strategic questions. Working with technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality and more.

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our clients with their most urgent business need.

Responsibilities:

As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will:

• Work on small teams to solve our clients' most challenging strategic problems
• Participate in volunteer and team building experiences
• Exposure to our leadership team through networking sessions and speaker series
• Begin to build relationships with clients to understand their business needs, seek strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions
• Grow by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team.
• Have an opportunity for meaningful contributions
• Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management

Requirements:

• Undergraduate with a target graduation date between Dec 2024 - August 2025
• Outstanding academic record
• Citizenship Requirement: Applicants for this position must be a citizen of South Africa in order to be considered for this role.

Skills and Competencies:

• Proven record of leadership in a work setting or through extracurricular activities
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset (particularly for Performance Analytics or Business Experimentation tracks).
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English and the local office language(s)