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You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

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.

How we serve our customers is constantly evolving and is a challenge we gladly accept. Whether you’re finding new ways to prevent identity fraud or enabling customers to start a new business, you can work with one of the most valuable data sets in the world to identify insights and actions that can have a meaningful impact on our customers and our business. And, with opportunities to learn from leaders who have defined the course of our industry, you can grow your career and define your own path. Find your place in risk and analytics on #TeamAmex.

How will you make an impact in this role?

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 with all applicable regulatory expectations. GRC creates and maintains the overall risk management framework, performs independent risk management assessments, and monitors applicable risks.

Compliance Risk Management Governance (CRMG) within GRC facilitates and monitors the implementation of effective compliance risk management programs throughout the organization, and oversees risk ownership throughout business units, products, and processes. The objective of CRMG is to develop, oversee and strengthen the organization’s Compliance Risk Management framework to ensure that governance structures, policies, and procedures are robust, effective, and align with regulatory requirements and best practices.

CRMG is looking for an Analyst who will support the Compliance Governance and Oversight team. The Analyst will be responsible for communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, including Compliance Officers, Control Management (CM), Operational Risk Management (ORM) and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). The ideal candidate will possess strong data analytical skills, risk and control management and a general regulatory governance knowledge.

Key R esponsibilities

• Support the oversight of compliance risks across business lines, ensuring that potential or emerging risks are appropriately escalated and addressed in the appropriate risk management program.

• Collaborate with Compliance Officers and other risk management groups to document the potential or emerging risks being raised through the various programs. The Analyst will be responsible to analyze, challenge, organize the documentation.

• Collaborate with various risk teams to ensure governance practices align with enterprise risk management frameworks.

• Provide strategic recommendations to enhance governance processes and improve risk management practices.

• Monitor progress against program deadlines; managing several tasks simultaneously.

• Update program resource materials including procedures, desktop procedures, and program Square sites.

• Assist with creating reports and dashboards for committee reporting, providing data analysis, effective challenge and trends for leadership review and discussion.

• Provide support for strategic initiatives and ad hoc projects, including responses to stakeholders, audit and regulator requests.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in compliance, operational risk management, issue management, or regulatory affairs within a financial institution.

• Strong knowledge of financial regulations, compliance risk frameworks, and corporate governance principles.

• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence diverse levels of stakeholders.

• Expertise in process governance, with a track record of establishing and overseeing robust decision-making processes that align with policies, regulatory frameworks, and / or risk management standards.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to analyze data, identify trends and evaluate risk scenarios effectively.

• Excellent writing skills and ability to synthesize key messages for diverse audiences.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a proactive approach to problem-solving and decision-making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, law, business, or a related field, advanced degree or relevant certifications (e.g., CAMS, CRCM) are a plus.

• Risk management and/or regulatory experience with a primary focus on regulatory compliance, or related experience within the financial industry or related regulated fields.

• Excellent project management, communication, and interpersonal skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to interact with all levels of management.

• Strong skills with Microsoft Office products including Excel and PowerPoint.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 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. 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: Compliance

Primary Location: US-Utah-Sandy

Other Locations: US-Florida-Sunrise, US-Arizona-Phoenix, US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25005234