Mastercard Australia
2023 Mastercard Launch, Associate Specialist, Strategy Pricing & Interchange (Feb 2023)
Sydney
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 75000 / Year
- 1 vacancy
- Apply by 31 May 2022
- Start date 4 Feb 2023
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. Successful candidates will be assigned to a business unit and rotate for a duration of 2 x 9 months each for a total of 18 months.
Strategy Pricing & Interchange
The Strategy Pricing & Interchange serves as a critical function within Business Excellence team that defines economic frameworks which ensure the competitiveness of Mastercard’s products and services and the alignment with Australasia division’s objectives. The role will work with the functional teams to achieve the market objectives in these areas through the identified deliverables below.
Major accountabilities:
- Conduct research & analysis to support business strategies
- Develop financial models and conduct analysis that supports the strategic pricing and interchange initiatives
- Identify and develop creative solutions, with a strong analytical and fact-based foundation, and lead teams toward its implementation.
- Develop business analytics dashboards that provide actionable insights that support or identify initiatives to accelerate business objectives
- Work collaboratively across various internal teams to support a variety of business initiatives, including but not limited to Account Management teams, Regional Pricing and Interchange team, Market Development, Products & Innovation, Legal, Public Policy etc.
- Communicate effectively, in writing and verbally, with peers and management.
All about you:
Education:
- Graduating seniors - Class of 2022/latest end January 2023
- Students pursuing a Masters/bachelor’s degree (all majors welcome to apply)
Key Competencies:
- Experience applying financial and business management principles, theories and concepts. Experience with financial modeling
- Strategic thinker with a strong orientation to detail, superior analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills;
- Self-managed and self-driven. Able to anticipate needs and execute according to them.
- Strong communication skills and proven ability to lead through influence and thrive despite challenges.
- Demonstrated expertise in MS Excel, PowerPoint; understanding of macros a plus
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to work on several projects simultaneously.
Languages:
- English required
- Additional languages are a plus
Please note that Mastercard will not be able to sponsor employment visa for foreigners. You will need to have working rights in Australia to qualify for this position.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Work Visa (All Other) +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.