CLOSING DATE: November 30, 2024
LOCATION: Johannesburg, South Africa
DURATION: 18-months
JOB PURPOSE
Applications Open for the Mastercard Associate Consultant Graduate Internship Programme 2024 / 2025. Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure. You will not only enhance your professional growth and skills in a global setting, you’ll launch your Mastercard career.
STRATEGY AND TRANSFORMATION
- Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations. Our 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.
- We recruit for and value the following core competencies:
- Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our 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 skill-set 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.
REQUIREMENTS
- Be available for start from 3rd March 2025
- Be a Final Year Masters/Undergraduate Student or to have graduated no earlier than June 2024
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently
- High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership and desire to succeed with commensurate analytical, technical, and strategic skills
- Be a citizen of South Africa.
CORPORATE SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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.
APPLICATION
In your cover letter, please indicate your first track preference. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants with their desired track. Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend the majority of your time, however, we encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire a diverse set of skills and experiences.