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Volumes are growing, payment options are expanding, and complexity is intensifying. Retailers are at the epicenter of these changes, and it is CMSPI’s mission to revolutionize payments for merchants and retailers worldwide. We are a hyper-growth company and the go-to payments advisor for Global 500 merchants, driving big cost savings, huge sales growth, and enhanced strategies.\nCMSPI is at the forefront of transforming the payments industry, and as an Associate Payments Consultant, you'll be at the heart of this exciting journey. We are seeking a data-driven and client facing Associate Consultant to play a pivotal role in our journey to become the world’s no 1 payments supply chain consultancy.\nRole Overview\nCMSPI's Associate, Consulting (Analyst) plays an integral role within our Consulting team, where they combine payments knowledge with in-depth and meaningful analytics, to discover exciting opportunities that drive optimisation across our clients’ payment arrangements. You’ll work alongside senior associates, engagement managers, Consulting leadership, and the wider CMSPI team to understand the business goals of our clients, with a focus on helping them to better navigate the complexities of their evolving payment ecosystems. The team’s goal is to provide powerful data insights to drive tangible improvements to client’s payment strategy and 3rd party supplier arrangements.\nWhile following CMSPI’s refined internal processes and standards, this role provides our Associates with the opportunity to play a key client-facing role that closely supports CMSPI’s delivery teams to identify, investigate, and present optimization initiatives directly to some of the most exciting brands in the world. The day-to-day deliverables also offer the ability to quickly grow your career and develop your own commercial, technical and leadership skills in the process - all as part of an intelligent and vibrant Global team.\nThe key focus areas include:\nPerform in-depth analysis on complex client payment data, internal and external payment processes, using benchmarking data, industry research and payments knowledge. Analysis should be completed efficiently and accurately, with minimal corrections.\nProducing accurate reports to communicate back to clients through various methods including Excel, PowerBI, written reports, and presentations. \nUsing CMSPI methodologies and entrepreneurial initiative to suggest opportunities and improvements to client arrangements and support these with detailed analysis. \nAccompany Project Team to client meetings to provide technical and analytical support. \nCollaborate with Engagement Managers on production of negotiation and tender documentation to be sent to suppliers of clients with responsibility for written documentation, appendices, and pricing tables. \nReview of commercial contracts and SLA’s for CMSPI and client \nComplete all required training on projects and internal processes. With support of Performance Manager and Director, People Performance, proactively work on individual development plan.\nGain a thorough understanding of each of the markets that CMSPI operates in and our core product offerings. Continue to share knowledge from projects with the wider business.\nWork closely with Senior Associates and Engagement Managers in the management and coordination of projects to ensure deadlines are met. Looking at driving process improvements internally to promote efficient data analysis and ultimately drive further value in client projects. \nRequirements\nYou are a great match if...\nAmbitious individuals who are excited by a challenge and have a curiosity to learn a new industry and new skills.\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Economics, Sciences, Mathematics, Business Administration, Finance, or related. \n1-3 years of professional experience in consulting or analysis, including experience in presenting complex analytical findings.\nStrong ability to apply logic, creativity, and solid problem-solving techniques across a variety of topics.\nInterest in innovation and developments around CMSPI’s key differentiators - consulting, market intelligence, and sophisticated data analytics.\nExcellent written and verbal skills, demonstrating an authentic and professional approach to communication.\nStrong organizational skills and ability to manage and prioritize a high volume of tasks to meet deadlines.\nDemonstrates proactive behavior in clarifying expectations, asking questions, and understanding deliverables for best outcomes.\nDemonstrates intellectual curiosity, resilience, and flexibility to work in a fast-growing business and industry.\nPortrays confidence and desire to interact and engage with clients. Comfortable presenting opportunities to internal and external stakeholders and develop relationship management skills.\nWillingness to travel to client and company meetings as required.\nCompetence in and experience utilizing MS Office.\nExperience in SQL and Power BI is highly desirable but not required.\nBenefits\n What we offer...\nComprehensive, payments industry training by in-house and industry experts.\nExcellent performance-based earning opportunity, including KPI-driven bonuses. \nFuture opportunity for equity, rewarded to high performers. \nPersonal and professional learning opportunities and growth experiences aligned with your career aspirations.\nQuarterly values award for all employees - with a financial prize\nRegular companywide socials and team building events\n22 vacation days + Australian public holidays and discretionary office closure during the holiday season","description_format":"text","description_chars":5999,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Australia","iso":"AU","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Payment Processing & Gateways","Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-26T12:33:51Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cmspi-associate-consulting","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cmspi-associate-consulting.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T19:01:12Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":28268,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5814},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5814"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcmspi-associate-consulting"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcmspi-associate-consulting"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcmspi-associate-consulting"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/cmspi-associate-consulting\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcmspi-associate-consulting"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3272707}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"cmspi.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3272707},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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