Senior Lead Analyst

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Function Description:

Finance is a collaborative team, playing a key role in advising all areas of the business. We have a strategic seat at the table and our unique insights are valued in a highly competitive marketplace and increasingly complex global regulatory environment. This team collaborates globally to deliver expert accounting, reporting & advisory services, and financial risk control & governance, while supporting business growth & protecting shareholder value.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing monthly accounting for various legal entities ensuring monthly journal entry (MJE) protocol to meet compliance, completeness & accuracy standards.
• Responsible for compliance with internal service level agreements (SLA), guidelines and accounting policies and regulatory requirements of the process
• End to end ownership of key enterprise financial processes like Merchant Withholding Tax, Staff Group accounting
• Deploy internal accounting & external reporting implications of new & amended accounting standards
• Real Time Analysis of Legal Entity Results, identification of anomalies during close leading up to results submission to Street
• Support / participate in standardization, automation and continuous improvement initiatives as well as other business partner initiatives
• Maintain high accuracy and productivity standards
• Awareness of the AXP Legal and alternate hierarchies, accounting close governance & consolidations
• Maintain close contact with customer / business partners and other interface groups to ensure a smooth service delivery
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Ensure controls & compliance with prevailing policies & procedures such as SOX, Process Risk Self Assessment (PRSA), etc.
• Ensure that all deadlines are continually met and adequate controls are maintained over the processes to ensure integrity of the information
• Ability to work across multiple time zones
• Leading accounting & reporting financial processes as per the aligned SLA’s for creation of complete & accurate financial statements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Own & maintain financial/data integrity while managing end-to-end global accounting processes
• Stay relevant to the business/functional requirements
• Pro-actively develop meaningful data insights/trends to enable finance decision support to our customer’s/business partners for more effective planning & forecasting activities
• Understand & leverage intelligent automation technologies to generate use cases within the team & create opportunities to support the automation team to get that implemented
• Ensure first pass yield

Academic Background:

• Graduate / Post-Graduate in Commerce with 2-5 years of relevant experience

 Past Experience:

• 2-5 years of past experience in financial accounting domain with knowledge of Oracle/ERP, card business model.
• Strong English Language skills (both written and verbal) 

Functional

• Strong understanding of end-to-end AR/AP process flow, accounting & reconciliation
• Basic understanding of reporting
• Ability to connect accounting & reporting
• Understanding of financial consolidation process
• Understanding of operational, SOX & other related control framework compliance
• Ability to research & embed relevant best practices

Technical

• Awareness of US GAAP/Local GAAP/IFRS (Accounting knowledge)
• Analytical skills with the ability to undertake cause effect analysis

Platforms

• Advanced MS office suits such as Excel, Word, Power point

 Preferred Qualifications:

Technical

• Techno finance skills
• Knowledge of financial systems Preferred
• Basic understanding & appreciation of automation capabilities
• Understanding of business products
• Ability to use analytical tools for financial systems such as Oracle, IRIS, OBIEE, Essbase, Hyperion Financial Reporting (HFR), etc.

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)