Senior Analyst-Control Management

Job Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared 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.

How will you make an impact in this role

You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact-every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

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

BU Copy : (CFR) How we serve our customers is constantly evolving and is a challenge we gladly accept. Whether you're finding new ways to prevent identity fraud or enabling customers to start a new business, you can work with one of the most valuable data sets in the world to identify insights and actions that can have a meaningful impact on our customers and our business. And, with opportunities to learn from leaders who have defined the course of our industry, you can grow your career and define your own path. Find your place in risk and analytics on #TeamAmex.

Control Management Risk Pillar Copy (Process Risk Reduction) : The objective of the Credit & Fraud Risk Control Management Process Risk Reduction team is to directly engage in the continual improvement of business processes to mitigate operational risks and steps in when noteworthy issues or events occur, and subsequently deploy resources to remediate at scale.

Band Level Copy : Credit & Fraud Risk is looking for a [Sr. Analyst] of Process Risk focused on ensuring control management is embedded in the day-to-day operations of our organization. It will involve extensive collaboration with multiple partners across numerous business units, functional areas, and geographies.

The [Sr. Analyst] , Credit & Fraud Risk Process Risk Reduction will :

• . Identify process risk issues and mitigation strategies by conducting analysis on control management data and critical business process data
• . Support identification and prioritization areas within BU processes that require risk reduction measures (e.g., assist in coordinating across First Line of Defense (1LoD) risk identification team)
• . Execute on process risk reduction, leveraging enterprise support as needed to ensure timely resolution of vertical and horizontal (i.e., within BU or across processes that extend beyond the BU) issues that are of highest priority and / or most significant impact to the enterprise
• . Assist in conducting independent root cause analyses focused on identifying underlying process vulnerabilities to prevent potential Operational Risks (ORs), with a focus on the most common or high-risk issues and / or losses, based on comprehensive methodology (e.g., comprehensive risk-based prioritization) to prevent recurrence, and inform control design / enhancement
• . Document control design effectiveness
• . Monitor and track the implementation of process changes, ensuring they are effective in reducing risk and align with the risk appetite
• . Document learnings from improving controls to elevate the process risk reduction capabilities within the BU and across the enterprise
• . Foster a culture of risk awareness and ongoing improvement within the team and the broader organization.
• . Support sharing insights, better practices, themes, etc. across the enterprise

Required Qualifications :

Preferre d Qualifications :

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 :

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.

Skills Required

Operational Risk Management, Project Management