Senior Managing Consultant – Strategy & Transformation - Fraud, Auth & Identity Lead, Advisors & Consulting Services

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 Managing Consultant – Strategy & Transformation - Fraud, Auth & Identity Lead, Advisors & Consulting Services Advisors & Consulting Services Services within Mastercard is 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: https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/consulting-specializations-at-mastercard Role Overview We are seeking a seasoned Fraud & Authentication expert with deep experience in the financial services domain to lead and deliver consulting engagements across the region. This role combines domain expertise, client leadership, and strong project/program management, with responsibility for end-to-end delivery of fraud and identity-related initiatives for banks and financial institutions. The individual will act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, lead multi-workstream engagements, and help shape regional growth across Eastern Europe markets in fraud, authentication, identity and financial crime consulting. Key Responsibilities Client & Consulting Leadership • Lead fraud and authentication consulting engagements for banks and financial institutions across the region. • Act as the primary client interface, managing senior stakeholders (CIO, CISO, Head of Fraud, Risk, Compliance). • Translate business and regulatory requirements into practical fraud, identity, and authentication solutions. Fraud & Authentication Expertise • Advise clients on fraud risk across channels: digital banking, payments, cards, onboarding, and account takeover. • Lead workstreams across areas such as: o Fraud detection and prevention o Authentication and access control (MFA, behavioral biometrics, device intelligence) o Identity verification, KYC, and onboarding o Transaction monitoring and fraud analytics • Support selection, design, and implementation of fraud and authentication platforms (vendor-agnostic). Project & Program Management • Own end-to-end delivery of engagements, including scope, planning, milestones, risks, and financials. • Manage multi-vendor and cross-functional teams (business, technology, data, security). • Ensure high-quality, on-time delivery across multiple concurrent projects in the region. Regional Ow ... (truncated, view full listing at source)