Associate Consultant Intern, Summer 2027 – Milan, Italy

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, Summer 2027 – Milan, Italy

AssociateConsultantIntern,Summer 2027–Milan, Italy

Why join Mastercard’s internship program?

Mastercard’s internship program offers more than hands‑on work. It provides an opportunity to build skills, expand your network, and make a meaningful impact while working on projects that support business priorities. It provides an opportunity to build skills, expand your network, and make a meaningful impact while working on projects that support business priorities.

About the team

Mastercard’s Advisors & Consulting Services (A&CS) team 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.

Whatyou’lldo

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 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.

You will:

Work in small teams to support strategic consulting projects across industries

Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management

Analyze data, identify trends, and help translate insights into recommendations

Create clear and compelling presentations for internal teams and clients

Support problem solving by structuring challenges and exploring solutions

Build an understanding of how consulting engagements are delivered end to end

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

Specialization Tracks

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 two specialization tracks 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.

Strategy & Transformation

Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations. Our engagements cover diverse areas, including product development, marketing, customer loyalty, and innovation. Working with clients from various industries, many S&T engagements directly interface with numerous Fortune 500 companies. This role aligns with the practices of traditional management consulting firms.

Sampling of questions we help our customers answer:

How can a global financial services institution be successful at entering a hyper competitive new market?

How can a customer improve its operating model to better achieve operational, financial, and strategic goals?

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. Weave together vast amounts of 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 fraud/authorization metrics fare against competitors, and what are strategies t