Managing Consultant Advisors & Consulting Services; S&T - Credit Risk Management SME

Managing Consultant Advisors & Consulting Services (S&T) - Credit Risk Management SME

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard's rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations.

Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.

The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations:
Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client's overall strategy, performance, and operations.

Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience.

Roles and Responsibilities

As a Managing Consultant and credit risk subject matter expert, you will develop key client strategies, and lead or advise on credit risk client engagements. You will generate key hypotheses and independently structure credit risk engagements to address client problems. Leading the work of the project Delivery team, you will be a resource to others to identify creative and useful analyses to address client problems, synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations, and share findings through impactful storylines and slides.

Passion:
Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.

Subject Matter Expertise:
This role will serve as a North American go-to person for credit risk management, assisting with specialist sales support and product development/refinement as needed, and focused on knowledge sharing and development of team members.

Problem Solving:
Leads definition and development of deliverables to solve client problems, address difficult client situations, and produce actionable recommendations for clients.

Analytic Excellence:
Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills. The ideal candidate will have strong statistical and data analysis skills, including SAS / SQL / data mining skills.

Project Management:
Clear interest in project delivery with business clients, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions and how credit risk helps address clients' problems.

Communication and Presence:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in client-facing situations, positioning Mastercard's solutions as high value solutions in sales and delivery conversations to achieve positive outcomes.

Teamwork:
Creates positive team environment and supports collaboration within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude. As the subject matter expert on project teams, provide on-the-job training on how to more effectively execute credit risk projects.

Commercial Orientation:
Ability to identify strong opportunities to leverage credit risk capabilities, including identification of cross-sell opportunities, and partner with broader Data & Services teammates on contracting activities.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

Undergraduate or master's degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, or Engineering

Credit risk management experience, specifically leading teams responsible for managing credit risk policy and credit risk strategies at a North American financial institution

Knowledge and experience using statistical procedures, segmentation, and financial analytic tools are required

Experience directly managing multiple people across multiple projects

Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively both verbally and in writing in English and the local office language(s)

Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with both mid- and executive-level client contacts

Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills

Strong knowledge of SAS / SQL / R- or similar analytic coding skills

Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position in, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

Ability to travel to client sites on a semi-regular basis

Preferred qualifications

Experience in a consulting organization as a consultant is a bonus

Experience generating new knowledge or creating…