Associate Analyst, Products and Solutions Launch Graduate Program null

About Mastercard

Mastercard is a global financial services corporation facilitating electronic transactions, primarily payments between merchants and consumers. It was founded in 1966 and is one of the world's largest payment processing companies.

Your role

• Acts as a business owner and manages long-term and short-term strategic initiatives for a commercialized product.
• Roles in this family overseeing product evolution, establishing go-to-market strategy, optimizing products and resources, implementing incremental improvements within the product’s life cycle, conducting ongoing care and maintenance, and managing P&L.

Responsibilities:

•  Assist in analyzing and interpreting user data, consider context and bias in data, and make a point to highlight data issues/inconsistencies.
• Seeks to learn drivers of product stakeholder priorities/preferences and how to bring new insights to own team.
• Actively listens to and learns how to probe for additional information from key stakeholders.
• Seeks to understand the importance of building cross-cultural peer networks and actively works towards building one’s own.
• Seeks to understand Mastercard's business operations and how value is created at each step of the payment value chain.
• Asks meaningful and appropriate questions to understand and translate business requirements into desired functionality
• Exhibits general knowledge of Mastercard business processes, systems, products, customers, and how they impact own area of work.
• Develops awareness of key business issues and major stakeholders in own area by helping to perform research & analysis.
• Takes personal ownership of seeing tasks through to timely completion while keeping the team updated on progress.
• Approaches work situations with intellectual curiosity regularly sharing ideas for process modifications/ improvements.
• Participates in Guild activities which develop others and reinforce good team spirit while working with others.
• Demonstrate active learning and sharing of product development practices via Guild/Product community initiatives.
• Understands relationships within own work area and participates in teamwork and collaborative efforts.
• Shows eagerness to learn new business knowledge, technologies, tools, or systems.
• Exhibits effective oral, written, and non-verbal communication within Mastercard and delivers high-quality work.
• Exhibits understanding of the importance of collaboration in communications planning and execution.
• Contributes near-term input (quarterly) for the product portfolio and roadmap
• May coordinate internal forums to collect and identify feature-level development opportunities.
• Helps build product documentation that is clear and easily consumable by product teams.
• Deliver assigned work seeking guidance from experienced team members

Training & development

Participants will be allocated to a business division, where they'll cultivate and refine their skills while gaining practical experience. This program provides a holistic learning experience, allowing students to acquire real-world skills while making meaningful contributions to a global corporation. As an intern, you'll be tasked with projects aimed at honing your abilities and advancing the department's aims and objectives.

 Over 18 months, Launch participants will be assigned to a business unit, learn and develop skills, and gain valuable on-the-job experience.

Benefits

Why Mastercard?

• Offering real experience, a competitive salary is offered.
• Networking and mentorship opportunities.
• Connect and build meaningful relationships with other staff and leaders.
• Interns will have the opportunity to join community outreach activities and make a difference in the lives of others around the globe.
• Workplace flexibility.
• Their generous time off policies allow you to relax, rest, and recharge. 

Career progression

Interns are given the chance to engage in a worldwide innovation challenge that could significantly influence Mastercard's trajectory. Identifying exceptional talent is a priority, and they aim to retain it. Accomplished interns also have the chance to secure a spot in the Launch Program upon graduation.

Work-life balance

They are committed to supporting the health and well-being of their diverse workforce across the globe. As part of that commitment, Mastercard offers generous benefits programs and policies that are designed using global standards to ensure the financial, emotional, social, and physical well-being of all employees and their loved ones. Setting you up for success. When you feel well, you live well - both professionally and personally.

Company culture

They create a culture of inclusion because they believe a company that embraces diverse perspectives leads to high-performing teams, innovation, and stronger business results. 

About you

• Highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and a strong team player.
• Extremely organized and able to independently manage multiple projects and initiatives with varying scope concurrently.
• Excellent relationship-building skills, able to foster and maintain strong, positive working internal and external relationships across multiple business functions and markets.
• Highly customer-focused with a demonstrated ability to understand and respond to customer needs.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, able to tailor the message to the audience and communicate complex products and processes.
• Fresh university graduate with a Bachelor's Degree, graduating between Nov/Dec 2023 and July 2024.
• Fluency in English is mandatory, and the local office language (e.g. Tagalog) would be a plus.

Experiences:

• Exposure to relevant Microsoft Office programs and ability to create deliverables on a timely basis (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.).
• Exposure to collecting and/or working with data including standardizing, summarizing, offering initial observations, and highlighting inconsistencies.
• Exposure to working with various product lines, technologies, and industries.
• Takes the time to fully learn the product portfolio.
• Familiar with business and technical writing.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• careers.mastercard.com
• youtube.com