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Associate Consultant Intern Jobs in Sandton, South Africa at Mastercard

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 andinnovation, partnerships, and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses, and governments realize their greatest potential.

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Associate Consultant Intern, 2025 – South Africa

Internship Program

The Mastercard Internship Program offers penultimate year students an immersive experience to challenge the status quo, gain real work-life skills in a global company, drive decency and belonging, and grow theirpersonal and professional development. We invite you to bring your passion, share your talent, and make the most of this truly priceless experience.

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

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 mostchallengingstrategic 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 ourleadershipteam through networking sessions and speaker series

Begin to build relationships with clients to understand their business needs, seek strategic solutions and guideimpactfuldecisions

Grow by receivinghands-onmentorship 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 needs. We are recruiting for 3 career tracks that make up our team:

Strategy & Transformation

Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations. Our engagements coverdiverseareas, including product development, marketing,customer loyalty, andinnovation. Working with clients from various industries, many S&T engagements directly interface with numerous Fortune 500 companies.

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

Marketing

Develop strategies and lead implementation of marketing campaigns and engagements; evaluate results to drive performance on behalf of Mastercard’s clients. Provide…

Title: Associate Consultant Intern

Company: Mastercard

Location: Sandton, South Africa

Category: Business, IT/Tech

 

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