Manager-Compliance

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Global Financial Crimes Compliance Team

American Express’ Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) team is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering (AML), 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 (GRC) organization.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The Global Financial Crimes Compliance Project Manager will be responsible for driving coordination amongst various GFCC workstreams and stakeholders to deliver against an important strategic technology transformation for the India market. The Project Manager will play a critical role in planning and tracking project milestones and deliverables, as well as organizing and mobilizing subject matter experts across American Express’s AML and Sanctions programs, including process owners, product owners, and technology teams. The successful candidate will capitalize on strong collaboration and communication skills, and an understanding of established project management and/or product management methodologies to deliver sustainable, impactful changes to the GFCC program in India.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex initiative to transform GFCC technologies supporting the India market
• Draft and maintain a comprehensive project plan to track and coordinate delivery of all relevant project milestones and tasks
• Clearly document and communicate requirements, roles, and responsibilities to enable effective coordination amongst key teams and stakeholders
• Partner with process owners, product owners, technology teams, and third parties to translate GFCC technology needs into clear, concise, and accurate business requirements documentation
• Oversee implementation of new technologies, capabilities, and features, including oversight of development activities, testing, procedural updates, change management, and sustainability activities
• Provide updates and ongoing reporting to relevant stakeholders and leadership, while ensuring that issues and risks are clearly identified, escalated, and addressed

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management, product management or strategy development and implementation, preferably within a compliance or risk management organization
• Strong management, collaboration, organizational, and interpersonal skills with proven ability to motivate and engage stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Solutions-oriented self-starter, with a keen sense of accountability and a track-record of success in a deadline-driven environment
• Strong skills with Microsoft Office products including Excel and PowerPoint
• A working knowledge of financial crimes programs and/or controls would be beneficial, but not essential

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• 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.