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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.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

The Portfolio Manager role presents a dynamic opportunity for a motivated and accomplished financial professional to manage all aspects of the operating expense base for the Technology organization. As a Portfolio Manager, you will establish strong partnerships with Technology Leaders, Finance, and peers across Tech Portfolio Management to ensure sound management of monthly operating expenses and a deep understanding of the investments to support the Technology line of business.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Manage monthly financial processes and reporting in full collaboration with Technology leaders, with an emphasis on projection accuracy and proactive identification of risks and opportunities.

• Maintain accurate resource rosters inclusive of linkages to key initiative funding, investment cost model resource mapping components and forward-looking views incorporating strategic workforce plan elements.

• Collaborate with platform leaders and Finance on the annual budget process and ensure alignment with delivery priorities and talent strategies.

• Implement and manage vendor labor contracts ensuring contractual obligations are met and appropriate expenses are accrued.

• Ensure consistent financial management processes are supportive of the technology investment strategy as well as regulatory and accounting standards.

• Build and improve financial models and cases that support the complex operating environment while taking into consideration the needs of a wide group of partners including Technology leadership, Finance, Portfolio, Talent Strategy, and product and engineering teams.

• Adapt, Refine and Develop standards, processes and supporting tools for budgeting/monitoring operating expenses and managing resource rosters while considering relevant feedback loops to enable transparency of financial performance against established plans.

• Build and deliver insightful communication for leadership that highlights performance against targets, comprehensive forecasts, and recommendations for addressing risks and opportunities.

• Uncover and manage the financial impacts of capacity changes and coordinate with the platform and portfolio teams to align the financial impacts to delivery impacts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance and/or Accounting with a strong record of academic achievement and 5 years relevant experience required.

• Deep experience and proven thought leadership in a financial role and a good foundation of knowledge in Accounting and Finance. Experience in Technology financial management is a plus.

• Demonstrated success in translating complex strategies into meaningful financial models.

• Adept at driving outcomes with relentless attention to detail.

• Courage and conviction to continuously deliver results in a dynamic environment and navigate high levels of ambiguity comfortably.

• Proven ability to drive results and pursue efforts with a high level of energy.

• Lead and influence others without authority at multiple levels across technology, product, and business functions.

• Adept at building relationships with strong consultative and collaborative skills to partner with leaders across business and technology.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, from preparation through execution, with the ability to understand your audience and build presentations to structure messages that effectively inform and persuade.

• Problem solver with excellent analytical and data management skills.

• Advanced MS Excel, Oracle/Smart View and Access skills and highly proficient across other MS Office applications is critical.

• Working knowledge of technology investment planning, resource management and investment cost modeling is highly desirable.

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: Technology

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24006534