Analyst - Third Party Life Cycle Management

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Functional Description-

American Express Global Commercial Services (GCS) is the leading payment card issuer for businesses in the United States and various international markets and supports business owners and companies with products and services to help them run and grow their businesses. Control Management at American Express is a comprehensive and integrated program designed to identify, measure, report, monitor and control operational risk exposures of various business processes. It supports business units in meeting all relevant operational risk, regulatory and compliance requirements.

GCS Control Management team aims to ensure that GCS has a strong first line of defense, playing an active role in supporting the growth of business, meet its objectives and demonstrating an effective control framework.

Reporting into the Manager - GCS Control Management COE - India, this Band 30 position will be closely working with Third Party Relationship Managers (TRMs), Third Party Lifecycle Management (TLM), Global Supply Management (GSM), Global Risk & Compliance, Risk SMEs, other key partners as well as the leaders across GCS to ensure all activities stay in sync with internal standards, policies and regulatory expectations.

Among the specific responsibilities, this role will include:

• To assist business partners navigate through the onboarding/ pre-contract TLM activities and act as the primary point of contact in GCS for all TLM/AEMP 10 policy requirement.
• Support business in closing all due diligence requirements raised during onboarding, work closely with TLM/GSM and risk SME’s for timely closure of due diligence requirement.
• Ensure all gaps and assessments are timely closed with no negative impact to Control & Compliance (C&C) ratings.
• Raise awareness and educating business and Third-Party Relationships Managers (TRMs) on various requirements on TLM program. Create tools, resources, trainings and awareness through campaigns ensuring all third-party engagements are assessed adequately.
• Ensure risks related to Policy Management (AEMP 10) are managed in line with regulatory & AXP expectations.
• Work closely with SSBE (GSM) team to get the contract/renewal/amendment executed post TLM risk assessment.
• Ensure TLM inventory is updated and refreshed timely, involves working with business on renewals.
• Support business terminate all inactive/expired engagements, following accurate decommission guidelines and attestations.
• Support critical program management tasks like - Risk Acceptances, Alternate Practices Program, Leadership updates like Risk Management Forums, TRMC/ORMC.
• Supporting 2nd & 3rd line audit requests.

• 2 to 3 years of related experience (5+ years overall). Experience in Operational Excellence, Compliance, Internal Audit, Supply Chain Management, Operational Risk or a related discipline would be given preference.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Good hands-on experience on MS-Excel & PowerPoint
• Working experience on platforms like Process Unity, Ariba, Conga would be an advantage.
• Strong self-starter with an ability to navigate successfully through challenging situations.
• Excellent problem-solving skills (issue identification, problem structuring, analysis, development of recommendations)
• Strong verbal & written communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with cross functional teams.
• Demonstrated analytical skills including the ability to think through all aspects of problems and generate possible courses of action.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills to work across a wide range of teams and build effective working relationships.
• Experience in business process improvement and driving governance requirements.