Support end-to-end customer payment-processing implementations by assessing needs, coordinating projects, guiding customers through Mastercard rules and documentation, managing parallel initiatives, and supporting project reviews, reporting, KPIs, roadmaps, process improvements, and staff training. The role requires technical understanding of networks, applications, payment transaction lifecycles, Mastercard processing systems, and host-interface testing, along with strong communication and project management skills. Occasional domestic travel is required.
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
Specialist, Implementation
Job overview:
In this role, the manager will support the lifecycle of a large portfolio, leading project-level reviews, optimizing standards, identifying areas for improvement, reporting analyses, and training staff members. The PPMO should be focused on specific customer or customers' portfolio and get familiar with their technology and challenges. The portfolio manager should not only be comfortable talking with high-level business leaders about individual portfolios but also helping us to define KPIs and create for that specific customer and produce/maintain a customer roadmap.
Major Rol Accountabilities: • Provide end-to-end project execution throughout processing implementation projects. • Assess and document customer needs and according to implementation activities. • Drive customer processing implementation projects of electronic payments processing business activities following the global project coordination methodology. • Guide customers through applicable MasterCard processing rules, specification and documentation • Identify appropriate processing implementation support documentation (contracts, agreements, forms etc...) to be provided by customers, • Handle multiple customer processing implementation projects in parallel.
All about you:
Education:
Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Exact Sciences, Business or equivalent work experience.
Knowledge / Experience: • One to three years of "Information Technology" system knowledge, with basic understanding of network technology, applications, and project management. • Understanding of payment transaction processing and industry business principles. • Understanding of MasterCard's payment processing systems, formats and associated customer host interface testing services and principles. • Understanding of the 4-party model and the full transaction lifecycle for MasterCard brands
Skills/ Abilities: • Ability to interact well with the customer • Good verbal and written communication skills • Self Starter with a desire to learn independently • Good project management skills • Ability to manage change in a technical work environment • Ability to understand theory /principles and apply it in the environment • Ability to work as a part of a cross functional team
Work Conditions: Occasional domestic travel"
Corporate Security Responsibility
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:
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
Specialist, Implementation
Job overview:
In this role, the manager will support the lifecycle of a large portfolio, leading project-level reviews, optimizing standards, identifying areas for improvement, reporting analyses, and training staff members. The PPMO should be focused on specific customer or customers' portfolio and get familiar with their technology and challenges. The portfolio manager should not only be comfortable talking with high-level business leaders about individual portfolios but also helping us to define KPIs and create for that specific customer and produce/maintain a customer roadmap.
Major Rol Accountabilities: • Provide end-to-end project execution throughout processing implementation projects. • Assess and document customer needs and according to implementation activities. • Drive customer processing implementation projects of electronic payments processing business activities following the global project coordination methodology. • Guide customers through applicable MasterCard processing rules, specification and documentation • Identify appropriate processing implementation support documentation (contracts, agreements, forms etc...) to be provided by customers, • Handle multiple customer processing implementation projects in parallel.
All about you:
Education:
Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Exact Sciences, Business or equivalent work experience.
Knowledge / Experience: • One to three years of "Information Technology" system knowledge, with basic understanding of network technology, applications, and project management. • Understanding of payment transaction processing and industry business principles. • Understanding of MasterCard's payment processing systems, formats and associated customer host interface testing services and principles. • Understanding of the 4-party model and the full transaction lifecycle for MasterCard brands
Skills/ Abilities: • Ability to interact well with the customer • Good verbal and written communication skills • Self Starter with a desire to learn independently • Good project management skills • Ability to manage change in a technical work environment • Ability to understand theory /principles and apply it in the environment • Ability to work as a part of a cross functional team
Work Conditions: Occasional domestic travel"
Corporate Security Responsibility
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.
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