Associate Analyst, Account Management, 2026 - Johannesburg, 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 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 Analyst, Account Management, 2026 - Johannesburg, South Africa Rotational Graduate Launch Program 2026 – Johannesburg, South Africa We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers in bringing one stop solutions to address their product needs in a fast and innovational way. Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure. This role is part of the APEMEA business unit, which offers a unique opportunity to experience 2 x nine-month rotations across curated career tracks, designed to enrich and diversify the Launch of your career, alongside enhancing your professional growth as part of the Global program that owns this initiative. Available Opportunities Career Track 1. Sales and Business Development As part of our Sales and Business Development track, you can expect to focus on strategic sales planning and consultative and solution selling. These teams provide: • Product expertise and help leverage Mastercard integrated solutions to drive sales and revenue goals • Is responsible for setting sales strategies as it relates to products that are aligned with geographical strategy and help identify and close sales leads • Market intelligence to product developers and managers to support design, development and implementation efforts Career Track 2. Product Management and Solutions As part of our Product Management and Solutions track, you can expect to focus on user experience, product performance and ongoing management, customer needs and insights and architecting solutions. These teams provide: • The overall coordination, status reporting, financials, schedules and stability of project-oriented work efforts, ensuring that project goals and objectives are met within agreed time, scope and resource requirements • Detailed project plans and manages all implementation processes within budget constraints Skills learned across all experiences include: payments knowledge – project management – data analytics – influencing and negotiation – strategic thinking – local market dynamics 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 skills. • Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions. • Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities. • Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude. • Integrity: Outstanding record of academic achievement. Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from mistakes. • Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity. • Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Qualifications: • Undergraduate or master’s degree with an expected graduation date between September 2025 – July 2026. W ... (truncated, view full listing at source)