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

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 commitment to drive the Company’s goals of growth and progress by creating a culture of risk awareness and proactivity around regulatory matters.

As an Analyst in the Compliance Policies and Standards Office, you will play a pivotal role in developing and executing the firm's compliance risk governance initiatives. This team is responsible for designing and implementing compliance’s program for the management of compliance risk related policies and standards.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the development and execute a sustainable Policies and Standards governance program for the compliance organization

• Manage process for ensuring policies and standards meet governance expectations (e.g., reviewed annually, updated as part of CMS lifecycle, etc.)

• Ensure consistency in content and quality of documents

• Collaborate with other risk governance functions to manage the policy hierarchy

• Support audits and exams as needed

• Provide program metrics and reporting

• Provide support to Line of Business Compliance Officers relating to policy and standards management

• Leverage various compliance technology systems

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in compliance, risk management, legal or related field experience required

• Professional regulatory compliance certification preferred (CRMC, CAMS, CCEP, CIP)

• Bachelor’s degree with a preference in Law, Compliance, Business, or a related field required

• Experience in a large, complex financial institution preferred

• Basic knowledge of banking products

• Strong skills with Microsoft Office products including, Excel, PowerPoint and Sharepoint

• Ability to effectively manage multiple and often conflicting priorities under tight timeframes.

• Experience supporting risk exam management processes and/or project management a plus.

• Proven capacity to engage effectively with all levels of management and foster strong relationships.

• Self-starter and independent thinker with strong critical reasoning skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity with confidence.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated integrity, innovation, teamwork, and excellence

• Experience preparing reporting and program metrics

• Willingness to think outside the box, ask questions and raise concerns

• Understanding of risk management principles, frameworks, and regulatory requirements

Qualifications

Salary Range: $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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• Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Job: Compliance

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-North Carolina-Charlotte, US-Arizona-Phoenix, US-Utah-Sandy, US-Florida-Sunrise

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25008195