Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re 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 Summary

Associate Specialist, Analytics and Business Insights (Rosetta)

Overview
The Associate specialist will be in charge of analytic and operational support of the team leader and other team members in their work. Further the candidate will own the data research and analysis in the selected areas.
The candidate will be part of the team at the heart of Mastercard Europe’s data. Analytics and Business Insights team seeks to empower everyone in Europe to use data to drive outstanding results. Main stakeholders of the team are sales and business development functions as well as European Management.
The position will enable the candidate to develop deep understanding of Mastercard’s data, data analysis and visualization, business insight creation as well as how analytics and business insights are leveraged in different areas of Mastercard’s business. As part of the team you will have exposure to Mastercard’s global network of data and analytics teams and individuals.

Role
In this position, you will:
-\tPerform data research and analysis at both operational and strategic levels as well as insight generation
-\tPreparation of business insight snippets and presentations
-\tConduct data testing and data reconciliation
-\tData tools and capabilities research and study
-\tEducate various stakeholders on data tools and capabilities
-\tSupport design, development and deployment of new data capabilities
-\tSupport and own maintenance, update and enhancement of existing data capabilities (dashboards, ETL flows, sematic models, etc)
-\tConduct data ETL (extract, transform, load) for various projects
-\tConduct operational support of Analytics and Business Insights team (e.g. intranet communications, confluence and mailbox handling, access management, stakeholders communications management, etc)
-\tPrepare data capabilities documentation
-\tPrepare presentations and other communications

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should have the below profile and key requirements:
-\tMA/MSc in math, physics, engineering, finance, economy, or computer science
-\tFluency in math and passion for numbers (knowledge of business statistics is a plus)
-\tAgile and proactive thinker with curiosity to learn and eagerness to crack complex topics
-\tGood analytical and problem-solving skills
-\tAbility to understand, create and explain complex concepts
-\tAttention to details and diligence
-\tResponsible and reliable
-\tAbility to exercise ownership over assigned tasks (perception of the tasks in a broader context, ability to offer new approaches, respect of deadlines, ability to anticipate and address risks)
-\tGood at defining problems and opportunities and finding solutions
-\tOut of box thinking, ability and eagerness to look for non-trivial solutions
-\tGood communication skills in all situations
-\tAbility to work with both high level concepts and applied data points
-\tAbility to work independently and handling different projects at the same time, stress resistant
-\tGood team player
-\tExperience with any of the following tools is a plus: Power BI, Alteryx, SSIS, SQL, Python
-\tSoftware development experience is a plus (either professionally or as a hobby)
-\tStrong PC User (Excel (with modelling), PowerPoint, etc)
-\tFluency in English

- Due to the conditions of the Belgian governmental program Rosetta this position is only open for the candidates 24 years old or younger.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All 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, and

Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.