Mastercard Australia
Internship Program (Dec 2024)
Hybrid Working Environment
Opportunity expired
Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- AUD 50000 / Year
- 10-16 vacancies
- Apply by 30 Jul 2024
- Start date 3 Dec 2024
We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.
The Mastercard Intern Program is a comprehensive program where students will gain hands-on real work-life skills while having fun and contributing to a global company. As an intern, you will be challenged with completing projects that will enhance your skills as well as contribute to the department’s goals and objectives. Successful candidates will be assigned to a business unit for 8-10 weeks.
For 2024, we will be hiring interns into our data & services, business development, account management, product management, corporate security, and tech teams.
Spend the summer enhancing your skills, sharing your ideas and making a difference in the real world.
Over the 10-week period, interns can expect to:
- Work on impactful assignments that drive business results.
- Attend networking sessions and leadership speaker series.
- Participate in volunteer and team building experiences.
- Receive hands-on training to help you build your core skill set.
- Have mentorship and development opportunities.
Program Qualifications:
- Evidence of strong academics, the penultimate year of study (graduating between June to December 2024)
- Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking.
- Project management, problem solving and planning skills with a demonstrated record of successfully managing multiple projects.
- Ability to work on a team and independently.
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience of working in technology roles in financial institutions is an added advantage.
Experience and Skills needed:
- An energetic and enterprising individual
- Display a high degree of initiative & agility.
- Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Internship period: December 2024 to February 2025
Visa Sponsorship:
Mastercard Australia will not be able to sponsor intern and fulltime employment visa therefore only candidates who possess full legal working rights in Australia will be considered.
Please merge your CV, cover letter and transcript into one PDF document and upload during your application.
Applications for our internship program will be open early June.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
I support both strategy and platform projects by taking meeting notes, helping plan workshops/interviews and create presentation packs.
Software engineer, I focus on executing and maintaining tests and testing environments
I work on different types of projects within my team, but also get the opportunity to organise and facilitate events to connect with our external partners and clients. I also do a lot of market research and analysis in my role, which is great as I get to utilize the skills I gained from my Masters degree.
About the employer
Mastercard Australia
4.4
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Technology
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry
Pros and cons of working at Mastercard Australia
Pros
I love all the opportunities for growth and development within MC. From early on in the graduate program, I have had exposure to high impact projects and can see and feel the difference that I make at work each day. I also love that we have such a social graduate program, with events organised regularly and plenty of networking opportunities with people from across the business.
Opportunities to work at forefront of payments technology and solve interesting problems; collaborative and respective working environment and culture with a strong focus on work/life balance and employee wellbeing; calibre of talent.
Ability to work on highly important value-add projects, clients and initiatives Senior leadership engagement day-to-day and involvement in broader initiatives Flexibility to rotate into different roles and work across teams
Good Culture, lots of team social and bonding opportunities, good personalities on the team
The innovative, fast-paced environment that encourages cross-divisional work and constant learning.
Cons
It was a tough learning curve at the start. Having never worked in the payments space, there was a lot of jargon and business processes that I didn't understand.
Being a larger, publicly listed organisation - we can be bogged down by bureaucracy and processes which are apparent to me having come from a start-up space previously.
The Melbourne office is relatively small when compared to Sydney and others, allowing for less network-building/work social scene.
Subject to global policies that don't always suit or consider the local situation; compensation is less competitive
The average age tends to be a little high so it can make organizing things like after-work drinks etc. more difficult than other places I have worked.