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The Global Risk & Compliance Organization (GRC) is an independent risk management function, led by the Chief Risk Officer, with the objective of ensuring that American Express operates in a safe, sound, and fully compliant manner with all applicable regulatory expectations. GRC creates and maintains the overall risk management framework, performs independent risk management assessments, and monitors applicable risks. Colleagues at GRC are passionate about our dedication to drive the Company’s goals of growth and progress by crafting a culture of risk awareness and proactivity around regulatory matters.
The Issue Management Analytics team is part of the Compliance Risk Management Program and is responsible for providing oversight and analysis of compliance and escalated compliance issues to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and to identify emerging risks. The team’s objective is to identify, monitor, measure, assess, and report on to uncover trends, root causes, and potential compliance risks. Through in-depth analysis, the team will support the company’s second line of defense by ensuring that issues are handled in accordance with internal policies and regulatory expectations. By delivering actionable insights and recommendations, the team will drive process improvements and mitigation of potential compliance issues, which will feed into the overall risk management framework of the company.
The Issue Management Analytics team is looking for Manager to lead a team focused on data analysis to identify compliance risks and issues throughout business processes, systems, platforms and develop / recommend risk mitigation strategies to address these risks, proactively flag high risk themes for intervention, and deliver thematic management reporting related to associated root causes. This will involve collaboration with multiple teams across several business units and functional areas.
Responsibilities
- Analyze issues, mitigating controls, process data to identify trends, emerging risks, and regulatory concerns, performing thorough analysis on root causes.
- Educate stakeholders in the BU on issues and event management and provide feedback on their reports and remediation plans. Provide guidance to the BU on how to identify, root cause, and log issues, to facilitate a proactive risk management culture.
- Develop and maintain a robust process for reporting to internal stakeholders and regulatory bodies, as needed.
- Manage regulatory relationship and exams related to Issues and Events.
- Leverage analytics and identify patterns, early warnings, predictions about aspects/ processes impacting our customers.
- Prototype and simulate use cases for Advanced analytics, ongoing & proactive assessment of analytic results in partnership with relevant teams, leveraging data to tell compelling business stories, with a keen focus on impact & insights.
- Extensively support colleagues from other team with Subject matter expertise and process knowledge to help make insights extremely relevant and actionable for the business
- Produce regular compliance reports for senior management, outlining issue trends, regulatory risks, and areas requiring further oversight. Produce business unit reporting that offer insights into issue resolution/ remediation effectiveness and adherence to compliance standards.
- Support the development of dashboards that track issue volume, remediation timelines, escalation rates, and other metrics, as appropriate.
- Identify systemic issues and recommend remediation strategies to improve regulatory compliance and minimize risks.
- Stay informed about changes in regulations and industry standards that may affect the issue management process and the company’s overall risk profile.
Qualifications
- 4-6 years experience in issue management, compliance, governance or risk analysis, preferably within a large financial institution.
- Demonstrated history and ability to manage large teams, spread over geographies and with varying backgrounds
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to interact and obtain buy-in from senior BU/tech counterparts.
- Supporting senior team members in prioritizing risks to ensure that root cause analysis and remediation efforts focus on the most impactful issues
- Master’s degree in Analytics, Statistics, Operations Research, Computer science, Engineering, or other related fields with at least 4+ years of experience in the data and analytics, machine learning, deep learning.
- Technical experience with analytic coding techniques, visualization tools and creating reporting dashboards.
- Strong experience in Python environment and libraries (scikit, nltk, pandas and numpy). Working knowledge of statistical/data mining analysis tools, relationship databases and programming languages within the Big data environment.
- Hands on knowledge of SQL/ Hive QL, Visualization tools like Tableau or Power BI
- Experience with advanced analytic methods, such as machine learning, forecasting, cluster analysis, or pattern matching, root cause analysis, reporting, and dashboard creation.
- Self-starter along with passion for continuous Innovation with a view to drive organizational improvements & impacts
- Excellent storytelling and visualization skills. Aptitude for working with data, interpreting results, business intelligence and analytic best practices
- Extensive business process experience in the financial services industry, including an understanding of related products, services, features, economics and key regulations
- Ability to break down a complex problem into components, solve them using data analysis, process knowledge and risk/control knowledge, and communicate data analysis, issues and control recommendations with transparency and integrity
- Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, actionable and beneficial feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps
- Ability to lead and manage multiple projects and incorporate developmental feedback across deliverables.
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.
