Senior Managing Consultant – Strategy & Transformation – Disbursements

MasterCard; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Managing Consultant focused on Disbursements and Payouts. In this dynamic role, you will lead client engagements, leveraging data-driven insights to optimize products and strategies. Collaborate with diverse teams to tackle complex challenges and inspire confidence among stakeholders. This opportunity offers a chance to shape the future of digital payments while mentoring junior members and contributing to best practices. If you're passionate about data-driven consulting and want to make a significant impact, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• Experience with launching or scaling disbursement features in North America.
• Strong problem-solving skills and proficiency in quantitative analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery teams to provide insights and solutions for clients.
• Engage proactively on client agendas and manage senior client relationships.

Skills

Problem-solving

Quantitative analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Leadership

Commercial awareness

Education

Undergraduate degree

Master's degree

Job description

Job Title:

Senior Managing Consultant – Strategy & Transformation – Disbursements

Overview:

Services within Mastercard are 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. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard’s rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.

The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client’s overall strategy, performance, and operations.

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for data-driven consulting, to join us and take a leading role in shaping the growth of our team.

Roles and Responsibilities

A Senior Managing Consultant focused on leading client engagements around Disbursements / Payouts, which may be consulting in nature or data and analytics driven.

Client Impact

• Lead a project delivery team providing insights and solutions to support clients in defining strategies for building, deploying, growing, and optimizing products driven by disbursement capabilities, leveraging digital payment rails.
• Act as a resource to others in identifying creative and efficient solutions, guiding the team to business-focused recommendations that drive client value.
• Develop strategies and programs for regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock value.
• Manage senior client relationships from mid-level to C-suite to drive success.
• Engage proactively on the client agenda, internal culture, and relationship risks.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and generate enthusiasm for Mastercard and our recommendations.

Team Collaboration & Culture

• Guide teams through complex problem solving to business-focused solutions.
• Motivate teams to produce quality deliverables and foster a collaborative environment.
• Own relationships with internal stakeholders including Product and Business Development.
• Mentor and coach junior team members.
• Contribute to Mastercard’s knowledge management and best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience with launching or scaling disbursement features in North America, including managing partnerships and assessing technical capabilities.
• Understanding of domestic and cross-border disbursement rails.
• Strong problem-solving skills, leading teams to business-focused solutions.
• Proficiency in structured problem solving and quantitative analysis.
• Interest in project delivery and decision-making processes of companies.
• Ability to inspire confidence and manage stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, in English.
• Commercial awareness and ability to identify cross-sell opportunities.
• Leadership qualities, ownership, and risk management skills.
• Brings unique perspectives to client engagements.
• Undergraduate or master’s degree.
• Willing to travel and eligible to work in the relevant country.