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.
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Associate Consultant Intern, Summer 2024 - Johannesburg, South Africa
Associate Consultant Intern 2024 Summer Internship Program, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing cutting-edge services that help our clients grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global client base. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations.
Make an Impact as an Associate Consultant Intern
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.
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
We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our clients with their most urgent business need. We are recruiting for the below track:
Lead clients through sound decision making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and t 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.
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Intern Product Management 2024 Internship Program, Nairobi, Kenya
Intern Product Management 2024 Summer Internship Program, Nairobi, Kenya
Apply for our Summer Internship program and spend your summer enhancing your skills, sharing your ideas and making a difference in the real world.
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment. Mastercard is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and bringing insight into the payments process to make commerce faster, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved. As a critical link among financial institutions and millions of businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide, Mastercard provides services in more than 210 countries and territories. You find more information on www.mastercardworldwide.com.
Mastercard Summer Internship Program
The Mastercard Summer Internship Program is a comprehensive 10-week program aimed at early career talent, where students will gain hands on real work-life skills while having fun and contributing to a global company. As an intern, you will be challenged with completing projects that will enhance your skills as well as contribute to the departments goals and objectives.
Successful interns also have the opportunity to secure a place of our Launch program upon graduating, which you can find out more about here.
Program components
- Challenging and impactful projects
- Networking, mentorship, and access to senior leaders
- Volunteer and team building experiences
- Participation in a global innovation challenge that could have material impact on Mastercards future
- Track product performance across our Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) including revenue, cost and risk undertaking defined Product Management activities including enhancement to the existing product set and interaction with Tech colleagues
- Perform market analysis, written and verbal presentation to management and stakeholder management
- Support and attend customer-facing meetings
- Perform desktop research to identify regional or global trends and develop key performance metrics and reporting
- Assist with ad hoc requests, participate in special projects as required and provide cross-functional support as needed
- To be available to work Full-time between approximately Mid-June to Early September.
- To be a Penultimate Masters/Undergraduate Student, due to graduate no earlier than December 2024
- Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking.
- Ability to partner across the organization.
- Sound communication skills.
- Expert PC skills including proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access
- Strategic thinker with ability to derive and translate data analytics to meet business goals
- Must be able to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment, handle multiple tasks, consistency meet established deadlines and deliver exceptional results.
- Citizenship Requirement: Applicants for this position must be a citizen of Kenya in order to be considered for this role.
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 Mastercards 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 Mastercards guidelines.
