Mastercard
is hiring
Senior Business Analyst
About Our Company
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.
Job Description & Responsibilities
Overview
- This is a Senior Analyst role responsible for supporting the analysis and implementation of product, system and operational initiatives supporting changes in Mastercard's business environment with a specialized focus on Settlement Service offerings, settlement/liquidity risks, controls, policies, and operations.
- Liaise between the business and IT, eliciting and translating external and internal customer needs into IT objectives, identifying possible solutions, and defining project requirement.
- Have a deep knowledge of customer needs, products and services.
Role
- Manages medium-sized projects/initiatives as an individual contributor with knowledge in global payments and settlement discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or contributing to a larger initiative.
- Translates communicated customer needs into specific objectives.
- Identifies solutions for less complex, more common issues.
- Defines settlement project requirements and priorities, estimates necessary resources and develops detailed selection evaluation criteria.
- Coordinates impact to vendor and company workflow for a new product
- Understands business context and market dynamics including Regulatory, Legal, Competitive and Technology landscapes.
- Leverages a thorough understanding of the Agile Software Development Lifecycle methodology to partner with Product Management – Technical and Software Development Guilds to develop scalable and sustainable products.
- Partners with and incorporates feedback from cross-functional stakeholders.
- Drive institutionalized knowledge with consistent product documentation (e.g., support documents) across the framework
Requirements
All About You
- Moderate professional experience in financial services, cards, payments or another related field
- Understands MasterCard’s product delivery process
- Experience working at MasterCard facilities and on Customer business locations
- Analysis or testing experience required
- Experience building relationships and working with technical, business and financial partners
Skills/ Abilities
- Must possess good verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong understanding of software methodologies (i.e. functionality & limitations)
- Requires less supervision.
- Good leadership skills preferred.
Education
- Bachelors in Finance or similar field or equivalent work experience required.
What we offer
In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $88,000 - $137,000 USD
