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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.

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 within 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. By partnering closely with business units across the enterprise, we help deliver maximum value to our shareholders and our customers through effective risk management and oversight activities.

Within GRC, the Financial Risk Management function is the independent risk management team covering all financial risks at American Express. The market and liquidity risk team of the function is responsible for designing and executing risk measurement and controls across market and liquidity risk management areas.

Reporting directly to Head of Funding and Liquidity Risk Management, the Director – Liquidity Risk Management will be a responsible for providing strategic leadership and independent oversight of liquidity risk management across American Express and American Express National Bank (AENB). The Director will work closely with senior management and business units to ensure effective identification, assessment, and mitigation of liquidity risk.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Manage the development and implementation of liquidity risk management policies, framework and procedures in alignment with the organization of risk appetite, enterprise-wide standards, regulatory requirements and best practices.

• Monitor liquidity risk trends, market developments, and regulatory changes to proactively identify emerging risks and opportunities for risk mitigation and optimization.

• Challenge treasury functions and other relevant stakeholders to identify, assess and mitigate liquidity risk.

• Prepare materials for regulatory exam and interactions, committees, audit inquiries and senior leadership presentations.

• Foster a strong risk culture and awareness of liquidity risk throughout the organization through training, communication, and knowledge sharing initiatives.

• Provide leadership and coaching for a team of risk professionals, overseeing critical processes such as Cash Flow Forecasting, Intraday Liquidity Management, Liquidity Coverage Ratio and Contingency Funding Plan.

Preferred Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree.

• Knowledge of SQL and Python.

• Prior project/team leadership experience.

• CFA or FRM.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $130,000.00 to $205,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) 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: Risk

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25016693