• Application Deadline:
• Position: Managing Consultant, Advisors


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Consultancy 
  

Overview

• Mastercard Advisors, the professional services arm of MasterCard Worldwide, provides consulting services (including business strategy, proposition & operating model design, performance optimization, marketing, information and risk management) to financial institutions, merchants and governments worldwide.


• With its unique payments expertise, deep understanding of customer needs and successful track record in addressing complex challenges throughout the payments lifecycle, MasterCard Advisors has established a strong track record of successfully addressing the challenges and opportunities of its clients.


• Are you motivated by developing new consulting models, leading to insights into issues and developing recommendations that add real value to clients?


• Have you led projects with teams with diverse skills and experience?


• Do you want to play a key role in driving a world beyond cash?

The Role

• The Managing Consultant (MC) will be part of the global leadership team formulating, implementing and managing a new consulting delivery model for Mastercard Advisors:


• Responsible for developing top quality work in the centralized configured consulting team.


• Help develop a scalable consulting business by developing and deploying established project templates to ensure consistent, high quality deliverables.


• Develop relevant and value-creating analysis and insight for our clients; ensure work is synthesized into clear, sound recommendations with high standard document outputs


• Support development of competency centres on core Advisors configurable offerings within central team.


• Develop effective working relationships with mid to senior level colleagues


• Proactively seek new knowledge and skills and facilitate the development of intellectual capital


• Lead small teams of local consultants and analysts undertaking project work


• Monitor configured offering processes and deliverables to identify creative and useful additional and/or alternative analyses and paradigms to improve project quality and economics.

All About You

• Extensive experience in a consulting organization, ideally with exposure to payments business.


• Undergraduate Degree required; MBA or relevant Post-graduate Degree recommended


• Core consulting skills including analytics & insights; leveraging and contributing to knowledge management


• Comfortable with high performance culture; with ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment


• Comfortable working with established consulting content frameworks


• English proficiency required; other languages desirable


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills


• Excellent analytical skills


• Experience leading project teams


• Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills


• English language required.