Performance Analytics, Associate Consultant Intern - Summer Internship Program 2025 - Greece

Associate Consultant Intern, Summer Internship Program 2025 - Greece

Associate Consultant Intern, Performance Analytics - 2025

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Make an Impact as an Associate Consultant Intern - Performance Analytics

As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and often implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through taking ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality and more.

As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will:

• Participate in volunteer and team building experiences

• Gain exposure to our leadership team through networking sessions and speaker series

• Begin to build relationships with clients to understand their business needs, seek strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions

• Grow by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team.

• Have an opportunity for meaningful contributions

• Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business need. We are recruiting for 3 career tracks that make up our team:

Performance Analytics

• Utilize advanced analytics methodologies to address client requirements by extracting actionable insights, structuring them into business presentations, and delivering these findings to clients.

• Use quantitative and qualitative skills and enterprise applications (e.g., Business Intelligence Platforms, SQL, Python, and more) to drive data-led consulting solutions for customers. Weave together vast amounts Mastercard, client & 3rd party data assets to investigate trends, build propensity models, develop data visualizations, and synthesize millions of data points into a cohesive story.

• Engage with client stakeholders through virtual and in-person meetings, leveraging insights to inform strategic recommendations.

Sampling of questions we help our customers answer:

- How does a financial institution's fraud/authorization metrics fare against competitors, and what are strategies that can help it be best-in-class?

- How is a technology customer’s market share changing over time, and are there any segments where the client is relatively under penetrated?

- Team members support typically support several customers concurrently, and include both short and long term projects that can last anywhere from 4 weeks up to 1 year.

Bring your Passion and Expertise

We recruit for and value the following core competencies:

Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients. Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.

Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills. Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset (particularly for Performance Analytics or Business Experimentation tracks).

Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.

Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.

Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude.

Integrity: Outstanding record of academic achievement. Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from mistakes.

Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.

Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications:

- Undergraduate or master’s degree with an expected graduation date between September 2025 - August 2026

- Language Requirement: English Proficiency is mandatory