Analyst - Compliance - job 2 of 31

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American Express’ Global Financial Crimes Compliance (“GFCC”) team is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, and Anti-Corruption compliance functions. This team has global responsibility for identifying, investigating, and reporting suspicious activity, including money laundering and terrorist financing, and provides broad analytical and operational support for the company’s enterprise-wide AML function. GFCC is part of the broader Global Risk & Compliance organization.

GFCC’s Program Governance team oversees financial crimes-related project management, inter-company agreements (ICA), issue management, the new product approval process, audit, and independent compliance testing (ICT), and financial institution due diligence (FIDD).

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Program Governance - Strategy & Enablement team that is responsible for oversight and strategic support to effectively drive and enhance the GFCC Program, partnering across the Compliance organization with SME’s and product owners, and with business partners across the enterprise.

The expectations of our regulators, across the globe, continue to grow, and we need to ensure that our Financial Crimes program continues to be effective and efficient globally, whilst also delivering to regulatory expectations at a market level. The role will work across markets and functions to enable enhancement through effective project management and robust analysis to provide key insights to senior stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be able to coordinate across multiple projects simultaneously and to thrive in a changing environment. They will have a proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues throughout the company, and experience working on global initiatives.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Managing global projects to enhance the Financial Crimes Program, ensuring key stakeholder engagement and alignment and timely risk mitigation.
• Problem solving to enable effective resolution of obstacles to project delivery.
• Ensuring Compliance requirements, roles, and responsibilities are clearly documented to enable ongoing program enhancement.
• Partnering with Compliance SMEs and business partners to track and analyze enhancement progress and adherence to compliance standards, ensuring that issues are clearly identified and escalated, and that various stakeholder groups have the relevant information they need to assess progress and understand remaining regulatory risks – at the market, business unit and legal entity level
• Analyzing outputs from existing risk management tools and systems to identify enhancement opportunities and inform decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of proven experience in project management, program governance, or risk management organization with a demonstrated track record of success.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and deliver in time-sensitive and ambiguous situations.
• Proven ability to quickly identify and address risks and interdependencies, and proactively envision and deliver solutions to complex problems
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to understand and communicate clear insights from data and information, across varied sources.
• A consistently high performer with the ability to work independently, able to successfully balance multiple priorities over both the short and long term.
• Ability to effectively deliver initiatives through partnership and alignment with multiple internal stakeholders with competing needs.
• Exceptional organizational skills and an extremely positive “can-do” attitude
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to communicate confidently and effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal English skillset required
• Flexibility to accommodate schedules with business partners in various global markets when needed.
• Proven to have a global mindset; able to work well across time zones and work cultures.
• Flexibility to accommodate schedules with business partners in various global markets when needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• A working knowledge of the Financial Crimes program as would experience within Operational Excellence, Audit or Compliance. Experience with committees and other governance forums would be a further advantage.

Salary Range: $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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