Associate Specialist, Analytics and Business Insights (Rosetta)

at  MasterCard

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.
Title and Summary
Associate Specialist, Analytics and Business Insights (Rosetta)
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connectho 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The Associate specialist will be in charge of operational and analytics support of the team leader and other team members in their work. Further the candidate will own the data research and analysis in the selected areas.
The candidate will be part of the team at the heart of Mastercard Europe’s data. Analytics and Business Insights team seeks to empower everyone in Europe to use data to drive outstanding results. Main stakeholders of the team are sales and business development functions as well as European Management.
The position will enable the candidate to develop deep understanding of Mastercard’s data, data analysis and visualization, business insight creation as well as how analytics and business insights are leveraged in different areas of Mastercard’s business. As part of the team you will have exposure to Mastercard’s global network of data and analytics teams and individuals.
Role

In this position, you will:

• Perform data research and analysis at both operational and strategic levels as well as insight generation
• Preparation of business insight snippets and presentations
• Conduct data testing and data reconciliation
• Data tools and capabilities research and study
• Educate various stakeholders on data tools and capabilities
• Support design, development and deployment of new data capabilities
• Support and own maintenance, update and enhancement of existing data capabilities (dashboards, ETL flows, sematic models, etc)
• Conduct data ETL (extract, transform, load) for various projects
• Conduct operational support of Analytics and Business Insights team (e.g. intranet communications, confluence and mailbox handling, access management, stakeholders communications management, etc)
• Prepare data capabilities documentation
• Prepare presentations and other communications

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position should have the below profile and key requirements:

• MA/MSc in math, physics, engineering, finance, economy, or computer science
• Fluency in math and passion for numbers (knowledge of business statistics is a plus)
• Agile and proactive thinker with curiosity to learn and eagerness to crack complex topics
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to understand, create and explain complex concepts
• Attention to details and diligence
• Responsible and reliable
• Ability to exercise ownership over assigned tasks (perception of the tasks in a broader context, ability to offer new approaches, respect of deadlines, ability to anticipate and address risks)
• Good at defining problems and opportunities and finding solutions
• Out of box thinking, ability and eagerness to look for non-trivial solutions
• Good communication skills in all situations
• Ability to work with both high level concepts and applied data points
• Ability to work independently and handling different projects at the same time, stress resistant
• Good team player
• Experience with any of the following tools is a plus: Power BI, Alteryx, SSIS, SQL, Python
• Software development experience is a plus (either professionally or as a hobby)
• Strong PC User (Excel (with modelling), PowerPoint, etc)
• Fluency in English

Corporate Security Responsibility

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 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.

• 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