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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.

The American Express Corporate Affairs & Communications (CA&C) team is a strategic function that works to enhance and protect the continued strength of the American Express brand through public relations, social media and content, colleague communications and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives.

The Director will be responsible for ensuring that all CA&C processes are documented, communicated, consistently applied, and audited appropriately

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Ensure Governance around all CA&C owned and managed policies, including compliance with Enterprise and Bank policies.

• Establish a procedure documenting the external communications content approval process

• Establish a procedure documenting the internal communications content approval process

• Oversee all CA&C applicable regulatory/policy mandates are being implemented across all CA&C owned/managed processes (Privacy, Accessibility, Complaints, Artificial Intelligence, Conduct Risk, etc)

• Provide direct risk mitigation support to various leaders within the CA&C organization

• Ensure all Standard Operating Procedures are created for all CA&C owned and managed processes and oversee the creation of a Standard Operating Procedure repository.

• Oversee a team that provides risk mitigation support to the various teams within CA&C and ensure all CA&C established procedures are being followed

• Collaborate with the CA&C Process Management team to ensure all documentation has been properly reflected in the applicable Process Risk Self Assessments and that appropriate controls are established

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7 years’ experience in Risk Management and/or Governance.

• Strong understanding of Operational Risk Management.

• Proven success at developing and executing strategies that better identify, communicate, and manage risk.

• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to see the big picture with attention given to critical details.

• Willingness and ability to understand the underpinning of procedures and processes and determine root causes of issues the influence procedure

• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple priorities under pressure.

• Strong business acumen and demonstrated thought leadership

• Proven ability to adjust quickly to shifting priorities and provide clarity in ambiguous situations.

• Bachelor’s degree required

• Proven people leader who can build, inspire, develop, and coach a team.

• Excellent relationship, collaboration, and presentation skills with ability to interact and influence leaders across all levels and teams in a matrixed organization.

• Self-confident with a strong sense of integrity and the ability and willingness to challenge and be challenged.

• Ability to communicate key risks to colleagues, business partners, and senior leaders.

Preferred Qualification:

• MBA or advanced degree preferred.

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 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

• 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.

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: Risk

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24018498