Senior Analyst, Analytics & Metrics

Mastercard Payment Services Denmark A/S; København; On-site; DKK 650,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Analyst for Analytics & Metrics to drive data-informed decision making across the Nordics. You will partner with commercial teams, product specialists, and leadership to transform data into insights that shape strategy and performance.

This role emphasizes solving problems with data, building scalable analytics, dashboards, and data products, and helping the organization move from reactive reporting to proactive analytics.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical thinking and business curiosity with a track record of turning data into meaningful outcomes.
• Ability to translate information into clear recommendations and actions.
• Effective communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Willingness to collaborate across teams and functions and take ownership to identify improvements.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business performance and identify opportunities, trends, and risks.
• Translate data into meaningful insights and recommendations for stakeholders.
• Support data-informed decision-making across commercial, product, and leadership teams.
• Help move the organization from reactive reporting to proactive analytics.
• Develop and improve datasets, reporting solutions, and analytical frameworks.
• Create data products and tools that colleagues can access and use.
• Contribute to improving data availability, quality, and consistency across the business.
• Support dashboards, reporting, and self-service analytics development.
• Collaborate with teams to establish scalable and sustainable data practices.
• Provide analysis supporting customer engagements, pricing decisions, and business performance.
• Identify opportunities for growth and optimization from market trends.
• Contribute to Market Monitor and broader market intelligence capabilities.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Business curiosity

Stakeholder collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Tools

Data visualization tools

Job description

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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

Senior Analyst, Analytics & Metrics

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.

Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The Data & Analytics team is looking for a Senior Analyst to help drive data-informed decision‑making and support the continued growth of our business across the Nordics.

This role brings together analytics, business understanding, and stakeholder collaboration. You will work closely with commercial teams, product specialists, and leadership to transform data into insights that help shape decisions, improve performance, and identify new opportunities.

We are looking for someone who enjoys solving problems, working with data, and making complex information easier to understand and act upon. Whether your experience comes from analytics, business intelligence, commercial analysis, consulting, or a related field, we encourage you to apply.

What You'll Do:

Deliver Insights that Drive Decisions:

• Analyze business performance and identify opportunities, trends, and risks
• Translate data into meaningful insights and recommendations for stakeholders
• Support data-informed decision-making across commercial, product, and leadership teams
• Help move the organization from reactive reporting to proactive analytics

Build Scalable Analytics Solutions:

• Develop and improve datasets, reporting solutions, and analytical frameworks
• Help create data products and tools that are easy for colleagues to access and use
• Contribute to improving data availability, quality, and consistency across the business

Advance Business Intelligence Capabilities:

• Support the ongoing development of dashboards, reporting, and self-service analytics
• Work with data from multiple sources to create valuable business insights
• Collaborate with colleagues to establish scalable and sustainable ways of working with data

Support Commercial Growth:

• Provide analysis that supports customer engagements, pricing decisions, and business performance
• Partner with commercial teams to identify opportunities for growth and optimization
• Help stakeholders understand performance drivers and emerging market trends

Develop Market Intelligence:

• Contribute to our Market Monitor and broader market intelligence capabilities
• Combine internal and external data sources to create actionable insights
• Help ensure insights reach decision-makers at the right time

Contribute to Strategic Data Initiatives:

• Support the development of data-driven products, services, and capabilities
• Help strengthen analytics capabilities across the Nordic organization
• Promote the effective use of data as a strategic business asset

About You:

We’re looking for someone with strong analytical thinking, business curiosity, and a track record of turning data into meaningful outcomes. You don’t need experience with every tool or technology we use, but you should be confident navigating data, solving problems, and influencing decisions.

You may be a great fit if you:

• Enjoy working with data to solve business problems
• Can turn information into clear recommendations and actions
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Are comfortable collaborating across teams and functions
• Take ownership and proactively identify opportunities for improvement
• Balance attention to detail with an understanding of the bigger picture
• Are eager to learn and continuously develop new skills

Experience That Would Be Valuable:

• Experience in analytics, business intelligence, data management, consulting, finance, commercial analysis, or a related field
• Familiarity with data visualization and reporting tools
• Experience working with structured data and analytical techniques
• Understanding of how data and analytics can support business growth and decision‑making
• Exposure to payments, financial services, or other data‑intensive industries is beneficial but not required

Why Join Us?

You’ll have the opportunity to influence decisions at both strategic and operational levels, work with a broad range of stakeholders, and play a key role in strengthening analytics capabilities across the Nordic business. This is a role for someone who wants to combine analytical expertise with commercial impact and help shape the future of a growing data‑driven organization.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks carry inherent risk. Therefore, you are expected to:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices
• Ensure confidentiality and integrity of information
• Report any suspected violations or breaches
• Complete all mandatory security trainings

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.