MasterCard - Data Analyst - Python/SAS/R/Analytics - IISc/ISI/IIT

Job Posting Title

Data Analyst - Python, SAS, R, Analytics, education from top financial institutes IIM/IIT/NIT/ Economics/Statistics

Job Description Summary

Overview

- MasterCard Advisors is helping to shape the future of data insights by leveraging billions of anonymised, aggregated transactions in a 10 petabyte date warehouse to help financial institutions, merchants, media, and governments manage their businesses more effectively.

- Advanced Analytics is charged with servicing clients by centralizing and optimizing the world class analytical, modeling, software coding, data sourcing, product development, product management, econometrics, and associated delivery capabilities of the MasterCard Advisors organization.

- Use broad retail, Travel, Technology, Digital, media, and/or payments industry experience and deep knowledge of the application of big data quantitative analytics to provide hands-on support for information product development and custom analytical project delivery that satisfies and retains a global client base.

- Are you motivated by developing new Analytical skills, leading to insights into issues and developing recommendations that add real value to clients?

- Have you managed the client independently and effectively?

- Do you want to play a key role in driving a world beyond cash?

Role

- Work for Clients across multiple Merchant Verticals like Travel (Airlines, Hotels), Restaurants, CPG, Non-CPG, Technology, Digital etc.

- Rigorously and logically identify issues covering entire client problem to understand business objectives

- Generate key hypotheses and independently structures work at the stream or small project level

- Identify creative and useful additional analyses required and suggest new paradigms for recommendations

- Create effective, impactful and quality assured storylines and slides at a stream or small project level

- Synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations; takes responsibility for structuring and writing reports and client ready presentations from a work stream or project level.

- Collect and synthesize feedback from clients, project delivery analysts, and sales teams for new solutions or product enhancements. Provide design specifications, functional and technical requirements for development of new products and solutions.

- Generates key hypotheses and independently structures work at the work stream or project level

- Proactively seeks new knowledge and structures project work to facilitate the capture of Intellectual Capital with minimal oversight

- Actively participate in business development support and thought leadership activities and ensure knowledge, know-how and best practices are shared and leveraged internally to continuously improve quality and productivity

All About you

- Advanced degree in Economics/Statistics/Mathematics or B.E. in a technical or quantitative discipline before M.B.A from Tier 1 Business Schools

- Comfortable with high-performance culture; with an ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Excellent analytical skills and attention to details

- Ability to work on a team or independently

- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

- Experience in Merchant/Retail sector and payments industry preferred