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Our PurposeMastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, were helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.Title and SummaryAssociate Consultant, 2026 Launch Graduate Program - Sydney, AustraliaWho is Mastercard?Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.The Mastercard Launch program is aimed at early career talent to help you develop skills and gain cross-functional work experience. Over a period of 18 months, Launch participants will be assigned to a business unit, learn and develop skills, and gain valuable on-the-job experience.OverviewThe Advisors Client Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing cutting-edge advisory services that help our customers 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 customer 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 ConsultantAs an Associate Consultant, 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, you will:Work on small teams to solve our clients'' most challenging strategic problemsBuild strong relationships with clients to understand their business needs, find strategic solutions and guide impactful decisionsGrow your career by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management teamHave an immediate opportunity for meaningful contributions, increased responsibility, leadership roles, and professional advancementCollaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and quickly gain exposure to business development, account management, and product managementReceive extensive training focusing on helping you build your core consulting skill setWe are looking for passionate and talented professionals who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs, and we are recruiting for 3 career tracks that make up our team:Business ExperimentationAdvise executives on business decisions by leveraging data and applying science to the way they run their business. Using Mastercards industry-leading Predictive Analytics SaaS platform, Test & Learn, you will work with customers to identify their key priorities and then design and run business experiments to establish which ideas work, where, when, and how to deploy them, and what not to do.MarketingMarketing consultants lead the strategy development and implementation of campaigns and engagements for clients. They use customer data to provide deep direct marketing expertise across channels, evaluating campaign results and adapting the approach to optimize marketing performance.Performance AnalyticsTranslate data into insights leveraging Mastercard and customer data. Get hands-on to design, implement & scale analytical solutions for customers across industries.Strategy & TransformationLead customers through sound decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges.Bring your Passion and ExpertiseWe 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.Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills.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: Commitment to Mastercard''s values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from our mistakes.Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skill set or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated leadership abilities.Qualifications:Undergraduate or masters students graduating between July 2025 - Feb 2026Able to start work on 2 Feb 2026 (Start Dates are fixed)Outstanding record of academic achievementProven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activitiesExceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skillsExperience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset (particularly for Performance Analytics or Business Experimentation tracks).Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively both verbally and in writing in English and the local office language(s)You would need to possess the right to work in Australia, without work visa sponsorship.Visa Sponsorship: Mastercard Australia cannot sponsor intern and full-time employment visas, and only candidates who possess full legal working rights in Australia will be considered (PRs & Citizens of AUS/NZ only).In your cover letter, please indicate your first and second track preference. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants with their desired tracks.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.Corporate Security ResponsibilityAll activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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, andComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercards guidelines. #J-18808-Ljbffr