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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.

Finance Data, Technology & Transformation (FDT&T) is an integral part of the Finance organization with a mission to solve Finance's existing and evolving data needs by using Technology approved tools to build scalable, reliable, and flexible data structures. This position will have the primary responsibility to lead end-to-end data analysis and documentation of process architecture to deliver value-added solutions for key stakeholders within the Finance organization at American Express. This is a product owner role that will determine the proper sources and processes for acquiring, enriching, and provisioning data required by Finance in the following major areas: Financial Reporting, Operational Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, Management Reporting, and Advanced Analytics processes.

The job’s focus will also include - but not limited to:

• Lead the analysis of Finance process and system requirements

• Define the functional design for data acquisition, enrichment, and provisioning process

• Partner with Finance stakeholders and Technology partners to design, build, test and deploy solutions to fulfill Finance process requirements

• Test case and plan creation, execution, and coordination

• Implement data process controls and support ongoing process maintenance efforts

Responsibilities:

• Finance process analysis

• Assess the data and capabilities in Treasury’s existing TDS data warehouse and the processes supported by that environment to define a solution-based approach to decommission the TDS environment

• Work with the Finance process owners and other teams to analyze and document their process requirements in terms of data, required transformations, and reporting/analytical output

• Participate in development of plans and strategies, best practices, and standards related to data management processes, data products, data security and programs

• Create features for ongoing sprints and manage a prioritized list of data requirements / user stories

• Document processing requirements, including data and transaction volumes, scalability, security and performance requirements

Solution Design:

• Work with Technology, Finance partners, source system owners, and other stakeholders to locate the data required by Finance and ensure the data architecture design supports Finance’s accounting, reporting and analytics requirements

• Identify required reference data needs and design the processes for collecting and maintaining reference data

• Design processes to acquire the required data and ensure data integrity, accuracy, and completeness

• Document future state Finance processes for data acquisition, enrichment, provisioning, and reporting

• Contribute to decisions about tools, methods, and approaches

• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

Build/Deployment:

• Work with Technology, Finance partners, source system owners, and other stakeholders, to deploy solutions across the appropriate Finance user base

• Build, test, and deploy solutions to acquire, enrich and provision the required data and ensure data integrity, accuracy, and completeness

• Perform data validation as part of Finance user testing as needed.

• Lead the creation and execution of systems integration and pre-user acceptance testing plans and test cases

• Data Controls and Ongoing Production Support

• Design and build ongoing data process controls by collaborating with Technology and Data Governance as needed

• Investigate data anomalies and research ad-hoc data inquiries as part of ongoing production support

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Technology, Information Management, Data Management, Engineering or similar field

• Strong understanding of relational database concepts and experience working in a big data and/or cloud platform (Hadoop / Google Cloud) preferred

• Knowledge of SQL and familiarity with query tools (Big Query)

• Basic understanding of Agile methodology and delivery concepts

• Previous experience working closely with Technology teams to deploy systems to re-engineer processes and solve complex business problems

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to form productive working relationships with key stakeholders

• Impactful written and verbal communication skills

• Demonstrated organizational skills with the ability to meet critical deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Self-motivated, proactive, and dedicated to delivering high quality data products

• Positive attitude and demonstrated strength as a quick learner

• An innovation mindset along with a transformational approach to process efficiency and effectiveness

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous work experience in various Finance disciplines such as Accounting, Financial Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, Management Reporting, Treasury, Tax or Banking is a plus

Qualifications

Salary Range: $103,750.00 to $174,750.00 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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Job: Finance

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 26001641