Associate Consultant Intern, Performance Analytics, Internship Program 2027 - San Jose, Costa Rica

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 Intern, Performance Analytics, Internship Program 2027 - San Jose, Costa Rica Associate Consultant Intern - 2027 At Mastercard, our Advisors & Consulting Services (ACS) group 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.  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 implement solutions for their most challenging strategic 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 our leadership team through networking sessions and speaker series  •  Begin to build relationships with clients to understand their business needs, seek strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions  • Grow by receiving hands-on mentorship 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 need. We are recruiting for a career track that make up our team. 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., SQL, Python, R and more) to drive data-led consulting solutions for customers.  Weave together vast amounts 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's fraud/authorization metrics fare against competitors, and what are strategies that can help it be best-in-class?  Which groups of clients do we have in our portfolio to apply campaigns based on their profiles?  Bring your Passion and Expertise    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