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Your role

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. They provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Make an impact as a consultant intern

As a Consultant Intern, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and often implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through taking ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality and more.

As a Consultant Intern, you will:

• Participate in volunteer and team-building experiences.
• Gain exposure to the 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.

They are recruiting for 2 career tracks that make up their team:

• Strategy & Transformation
  • Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations. Their engagements cover diverse areas, including product development, marketing, customer loyalty, and innovation. Working with clients from various industries, many S&T engagements directly interface with numerous Fortune 500 companies. This role aligns with the practices of traditional management consulting firms.
  • Sampling of questions they help their customers answer:
    • How can a global financial services institution be successful at entering a hyper-competitive new market?
    • How can a customer improve its operating model to better achieve operational, financial and strategic goals?
  • Team members typically support 1-3 projects concurrently, with each project lasting for approximately 8-16 weeks.
• Performance Analytics
  • Use quantitative and qualitative skills and enterprise applications (e.g., Business Intelligence Platforms, SQL, Python, and more) to drive data-led consulting solutions for customers. Weave together vast amounts of Mastercard, client & 3rd party data assets to investigate trends, build propensity models, develop data visualizations, and synthesize millions of data points into a cohesive story. Engage with client stakeholders through virtual and in-person meetings, leveraging insights to inform strategic recommendations.
  • Sampling of questions they help customers answer:
    • How does a financial institution's fraud/authorization metrics fare against competitors, and what are strategies that can help it be best-in-class?
    • How is a technology customer’s market share changing over time, and are there any segments where the client is relatively under-penetrated?
  • Team members typically support several customers concurrently, and include both short and long-term projects that can last anywhere from 4 weeks up to 1 year.

About you

Mastercard is looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share their vision for helping customers with their most urgent business needs. They recruit for and value the following core competencies:

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to their clients. Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.
• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem-solving, analytical and quantitative 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).
• Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.
• Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.
• Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will-to-win attitude.
• Integrity: Outstanding record of academic achievement. Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from mistakes.
• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.
• Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualification

• Undergraduate or master’s degree with an expected graduation date between Dec 2025-July 2026

Benefits

As an intern at Mastercard, you may experience benefits such as:

• Competitive salary 
• Challenging and impactful projects
• Networking and mentorship opportunities
• Conversion opportunities into a full-time position
• Business Resource Groups 
• Community outreach activities

Training & development

Mastercard's internship offers students hands-on experience through challenging projects that enhance their skills and contribute to business goals. It emphasizes professional development, offering education and training opportunities. Interns are immersed in Mastercard's 'Doing Well by Doing Good' culture, gaining valuable experience while making a meaningful impact.

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Career progression

Successful interns have the opportunity to secure a place upon graduating. Mastercard offers career growth opportunities through its Learning Academies, providing industry-leading content to fuel employee growth. Employees can also leverage the Unlocked network to make impactful connections and form mentorships, supporting a workplace where everyone can connect their passions with their fullest potential.

How to apply

In your cover letter, please indicate your first track preference. This information will be used to best match applicants with their desired tracks.

Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend most of your time; however, they encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire diverse skills and experiences.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• careers.mastercard.com/us/en
• careers.mastercard.com/us/en/internships
• mastercard.com/global/en/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html
• youtube.com