12 Consulting Firms jobs in South Africa

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, 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

Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation

Overview:

Managing Consultant – Strategy & Transformation, Advisors & Consulting Services

Services within Mastercard are 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. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard’s rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.

The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client’s overall strategy, performance, and operations.

Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience:

Roles and Responsibilities

Client Impact

• Lead client engagements across a range of industries and problem statements
• Develop strategies and programs for large, regional, and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value
• Own key relationships with mid-level to senior client stakeholders and independently assess client agenda, internal culture, and change readiness

Team Collaboration & Culture

• Lead team to create insights and sound business recommendations, and deliver impactful client presentations while growing team members’ roles and skills
• Provide analytical and day-to-day project delivery team leadership, and create a collaborative and inclusive environment for all levels
• Collaborate with internal Mastercard stakeholders including Product and Business Development to scope projects, create relevant solutions for clients, and build the firm's intellectual capital
• Provide on-the-job training, coaching, and mentorship to junior consultants

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

• Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management
• Experience coaching and managing teams across multiple consulting engagements that involve structured problem solving and stakeholder management
• Experience managing key client relationships
• Knowledge of business KPIs, financials, and organizational leadership
• Ability to identify new business development opportunities, and experience drafting proposals and scoping new opportunities
• Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis
• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable)
• Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

Preferred qualifications

• Experience generating new knowledge or creating innovative solutions for a firm
• Relevant industry expertise
• MBA or master’s degree with relevant specialization (not required)

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with inherent risks. 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.

We are currently in search of an adept Electrical Engineer to join our client's team based in Johannesburg.

As an Electrical Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in delivering technical expertise and assistance to clients within the business consulting and services sector.

Responsibilities:

• Execute electrical design and analysis tasks across a range of projects.
• Prepare comprehensive technical reports, specifications, and drawings.
• Tackle engineering challenges and provide effective solutions.
• Supervise the production of drawings and associated infrastructure elements.
• Conduct on-site inspections and oversee operations.
• Collaborate closely with clients to grasp their requirements and objectives.
• Conduct thorough site visits and inspections as necessary.
• Offer valuable technical guidance and support to junior engineers.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and technological advancements.
• Ensure strict compliance with safety standards and regulations.
• Efficiently manage project timelines and budgets.
• Attend meetings and deliver insightful presentations to clients.

• Hold a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Mandatory professional registration as Pr. Eng / Pr. Tech.
• Possess a minimum of 3-5 years of post-registration experience in electrical engineering.
• Prior experience in project management and electrical design is essential.
• Proficiency in relevant software and tools such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Projects, and AutoCAD.
• Advantageous to have familiarity with PV Solar Panels and Battery Energy Storage System trends.
• Capability in cost estimation and contribution to financial modeling is desirable.
• Previous involvement in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects would be advantageous.

Contact Hire Resolve for your next career-changing move.

Salary: negotiable.
Our client is offering a highly competitive salary for this role based on experience.
Apply for this role today, contact Alyssa Marson, Chandre Cordier, Henker Harmse, Elma Pelser, Wernardt Snyman or Tameaka Futcher at Hire Resolve or on LinkedIn.
You can also visit the Hire Resolve website: hireresolve.us or email us your CV:
We will contact you telephonically in 3 days should you be suitable for this vacancy. If you are not suitable, we will put your CV on file and contact you regarding any future vacancies that arise.

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build asustainableeconomy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactionssecure, 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

Provide advice and support to sector SBUs and Post Investment Segments in respect of their clients who are showing early signs of operational and/or financial stress. Conduct detailed business diagnosis focusing on business dimensions (Leadership, Strategy, Operations, Finance, Human Capital, Sales Marketing) and document terms of reference that will inform the Value Creation Plan (VCP) for clients who would require management consulting services, training, support, mentorship and development.

Provide advisory support to the clients through knowledge provision, training, mentorship and coaching. Provide post-investment early-stage support to small, medium and large enterprises to collaboratively grow clients through assisting Segments in developing and implementing the VCP and its identified interventions.

Provide management consulting services in the areas of leadership, governance, corporate and business unit strategy, functional management strategies, sales and marketing, human capital, finance and operations (optimization, process re-engineering, operational efficiencies, productivity improvement, etc).

Implement business enabling systems and tools such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), financial and human capital systems, policies and processes to help formalize and professionalize clients’ businesses.

Provide domain knowledge and expertise to support clients to realize profit and growth such as: Markets, Value chain insights, Manufacturing 4.0 and technologies. Stakeholder management and engagement to ensure alignment of roles and responsibilities and building up a repository of core knowledge and insights within the IDC in supporting the delivery of the value creation plan for clients.

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