Associate Consultant Intern, 2025 – Vancouver, Canada – Mastercard

Title of the Job: Associate Consultant Intern, 2025 – Vancouver, Canada

Location: Vancouver, BC

Job Description: Our PurposeWe 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 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 SummaryAssociate Consultant Intern, 2025 – Vancouver, CanadaAssociate Consultant Intern – 2025You must submit a cover letter, resume and transcript (unofficial/official).
Interviews will happen in January 2025.
Start & End date: May 5, 2025 to August 22, 2025 (no alternate start dates available).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.Make an Impact as an Associate Consultant InternAs an Associate Consultant Intern, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world’s biggest brands answer and often implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through taking ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on 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:

• Participate in volunteer and team building experiences
• Gain 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 customers with their most urgent business needs, and we are recruiting for the Performance Analytics career track:Performance AnalyticsUse quantitative and qualitative skills and enterprise applications (e.g., Business Intelligence Platforms, SQL, Python, and more) to drive data-led consulting solutions for customers. Weave together vast amounts Mastercard, client & 3rd party data assets to investigate trends, build propensity models, develop data visualizations, and synthesize millions of data points into a cohesive story. Engage with client stakeholders through virtual and in-person meetings, leveraging insights to inform strategic recommendations.Sampling of questions we help our customers answer:How does a financial institution’s fraud/authorization metrics fare against competitors, and what are strategies that can help it be best-in-class?How is a technology customer’s market share changing over time, and are there any segments where the client is relatively under penetrated?Team members typically support several customers concurrently, and include both short and long term projects that can last anywhere from 4 weeks up to 1 year.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. Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills. Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset.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: Outstanding record of academic achievement. Commitment to Mastercard’s values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from mistakes.Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.Qualifications:Undergraduate or master’s degree with an expected graduation date between December 2025 – July 2026.Applications will be reviewed on a first come first serve basis.Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend most of your time; however, we encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire diverse skills and experiences.To participate in our job simulation and experience what it’s like to work as a Consultant at Mastercard visit: https://www.theforage.com/simulations/mastercard/advisors-client-services-xvlwExpected Salary: $1300/per week CAD + Sign On BonusMastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.Corporate Security ResponsibilityAll 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, andComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Company Name: Mastercard

Salary: $1300 per week

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