Managing Consultant, Advisors at Mastercard Nigeria Full Time

Job Title: Managing Consultant, Advisor

Reference ID: R-140554
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

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?

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

• Undergraduate Degree required; MBA or relevant Post graduate Degree recommended.
• Extensive experience in a consulting organization, ideally with exposure to payments business.
• 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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.