Senior Analyst, Economist, North America

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, Economist, North America

Overview
The Mastercard Economics Institute (MEI) is an economics lab that powering scale at Mastercard by owning economic thought leadership in support of Mastercard’s efforts to build a more inclusive and sustainable digital economy
The Economics Institute was launched in 2020 to analyze economic trends through the lens of the consumer to deliver tailored and actionable insights on economic issues for customers, partners and policymakers
The Institute is composed of a team of economists and data scientists that utilize & synthesize the anonymized and aggregated data from the Mastercard network together with public data to bring powerful insights to life, in the form of 1:1 presentations, global thought leadership, media participation, and commercial work through the company’s product suites
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We are looking for an economist who will focus on creating custom and actionable economic insights. This individual will report to the Vice President, Lead Economist, NAM and have the following responsibilities:
• Assist in developing and maintaining macroeconomic views for NAM
• Support creation of briefing documents for Mastercard leadership teams and regional advisory boards
• Contribute to outlooks and blog-style research notes utilizing unique economic data
• Assist in creating content to represent Mastercard in customer forums and industry events positioning us as an industry leader with highly differentiated capabilities
• Work with the data scientists and consulting teams to explore alternative data sets and forecasting to push the boundaries in more traditional economics
• Help drive the story creation for tailored presentations
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• A trained economist with a MA+ economics degree (or related field) and intimate knowledge of the NAM economy
• Strong collaborator across teams within the institute and broader Mastercard
• Evidence of both orthodox and experimental approaches in economic thinking and application with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Manage complex projects and timelines effectively
• Familiarity with coding in SQL, R, Python, Tableau and other analytical tools
• Ability to write concise, compelling narratives

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.