Associate Consultant, Launch Program 2027 - Vancouver, Canada

MasterCard; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 79,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard in Vancouver is seeking an Associate Consultant for the Launch Program 2027. You will work in Advisors & Consulting Services to tackle real business challenges, learning through structured training and mentorship over an 18-month program.

You’ll contribute to performance analytics projects, use SQL, Python, and BI tools, and develop client-facing deliverables while collaborating with cross-functional teams across Mastercard.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or accelerated master's degree with expected graduation Spring 2027.
• This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship now or in the future.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills; interest in data-driven consulting.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate within small teams to help brands answer and implement strategic questions.
• Own deliverables and build external relationships with clients.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Client engagement

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field

Tools

SQL

SAS

Excel

Tableau

Python

Job description

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 Consultant, Launch Program 2027 - Vancouver, Canada

Why join Mastercard’s Launch Program?

Over the course of this 18-month program, you'll build specialized expertise through hands-on experience, structured learning, and mentorship from industry leaders. You'll work on real business challenges, applying your skills to projects that create meaningful impact. Along the way, you'll deepen your knowledge of Mastercard's business, collaborate with teams across the organization, and develop the technical, analytical, and professional capabilities needed to accelerate your career. By the end of the program, you’ll have a strong foundation in your chosen field and the confidence to continue to grow here at Mastercard.

About the team

Mastercard’s Advisors & Consulting Services (A&CS) team helps clients drive impact through data-driven insights, hands-on implementation, and a collaborative, tech-enabled culture. We invest in talent through global engagements, continuous learning, and programs like the Global Ambassadors Program, while fostering purpose through volunteerism, pro-bono work, and innovation that benefits both clients and communities.

What you’ll do

• collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions.
• create meaningful contributions through 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.

Specialization Tracks

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs. We are recruiting for the following specialization track. Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend most of your time; however, we encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire diverse skills and experiences.

Performance Analytics

• 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 of 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 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.

What we’re looking for

Undergraduate or accelerated master’s degree with an expected graduation date Spring 2027

This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship now or in the future.

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.

Application Deadline is September 3rd at 11:59PM EST. Interviews will take place in September.

Compensation: $87,500 CAD

To participate in our job simulation and experience what it’s like to work as a Consultant at Mastercard visit: https://www.theforage.com/simulations/mastercard/advisors-client-services-xvlw

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role.

In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [e-mail] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.