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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.

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Role & Responsibilities:

This position will provide legal support and guidance to the Global Dollar Card (“GDC”) portfolio within the Foreign Currency Solutions (“FCS”) business, which is a USD denominated corporate payment products and solutions offered in 150 countries outside the United States. This position will work closely with business partners, legal professionals in the General Counsel’s Organization (“GCO”), as well as stakeholders across the enterprise, to provide support on legal issues of varying complexity.

Here’s just some of what you’ll do in this role:

• Governance: coordinate the review of regulatory risk assessments for all FCS products/markets to support the offshore issuance status of GDC, provide thought leadership to internal stakeholders regarding legal issues including, licensing, doing business, data privacy, payment remittance, lead referral among others.

• Content Governance: review and approve value propositions and disclosures and support the creation of FCS marketing guidance.

• Support sales practices and the Business Conduct review for FCS.

• Product Support: partner with FCS Business, Line of Business Compliance, Privacy, and other key stakeholders to support GDC product launches and product updates and draft, review and approve cardmember legal disclosures, revisions to the GDC cardmember agreement, as well as revisions to the GDC commercial services agreement.

• Support Credit Risk: partner with the credit risk management team in implementation of various initiatives related to underwriting including collateral constructs, credit monitoring, and corporate bankruptcies.

• Client Management Support: support contract drafting and negotiations for GDC clients. Provide thought leadership on legal risks involved in current relationships, advise on client escalations, and potential dispute.

Are you ready for the challenge?

Minimum Qualifications:

• J.D. with admission to practice law in the United States 3 years of relevant experience in a law firm and/or in-house corporate legal environment.

• Experience assessing and advising on legal risks associated with complex transactions in the financial services industry.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to manage and prioritize competing demands while maintaining high attention to detail and meeting deadlines.

• Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and persuasively, in both oral and written format.

• Ability to build relationships and partner with others to drive results.

• Capacity to be agile and pivot appropriately when challenged with new information or evolving circumstances.

• A strong work ethic, a can-do attitude, flexibility and genuine enthusiasm to assist with other assignments, projects and matters when needed.

• Passion for working towards creative, solution-oriented outcomes that effectively address legal requirements and operational needs.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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 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: Legal

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24010018