Job Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.



Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.



Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.



Global Merchant Network Services (GMNS) Financial Crime Team (FCT) is a cross-LOB organization, responsible for supporting the network and acquiring businesses and ensuring they have a robust first line of defense. FCT plays an active role in enabling the businesses to meet their growth objectives whilst ensuring there is an effective control framework. Our organization helps our businesses manage risk, respond to new regulation, and develop new products whilst creating and maintaining effective partnerships across multiple key stakeholders.



Global Merchant Network Services (GMNS) Financial Crime Team (FCT) are responsible for ensuring that GMNS has a robust first line of defense for ensuring full compliance with applicable laws, regulations and company policies, influencing control consciousness & regulatory preparedness across products, processes and legal entities. Success in this role requires an external perspective, and strong knowledge of the Acquiring and Network business.

Responsibilities include:

Risk Analytics

: Perform analytics to support multiple workstreams within FC (Financial Crime) in a dynamic regulatory environment (using SQL/Python). Work with large volumes of structured and unstructured data to drive meaningful insights

Risk monitoring:

Identifying and reacting to emerging financial crime issues and trends, working with stakeholders to ensure the organisation and its partners, customers and clients are protected. Analysing large sets of data to identify risks and trends, make informed decisions, and enable issue resolution through effective collaboration with key Partners

Reporting analytics

to build a robust reporting system that will provide key risk metrics for businesses and leaders.

Qualifications:

Degree in a quantitative area (e.g. Finance, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics and Engineering) is preferred.

Past Experience: 2 years of relevant work experience preferred.

Technical and Function Skills/Capabilities:

Proactive thinking and strong analytical skills Strong ability to solve unstructured problems through data Strong process mindset and ability to collaborate Excellent critical thinking and attention to detail Exceptional drive and commitment; ability to work and thrive in in fast changing, results driven environment; and proven ability in handling competing priorities Proactive learner with the ability to quickly learn new concepts and techniques with minimal supervision Solid experience with analytical (SQL, Hive, Python) tools is expected Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate between various technical and non-technical audiences Good to have dashboarding experience using excel/tableau Knowledge of Financial crime and/or regulatory management experience is preferred

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 Support for financial-well-being and retirement Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 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

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.


Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.