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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.

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American Express National Bank (AENB) is American Express’ chartered national bank. Headquartered in Utah, AENB is the single largest entity within American Express’ business, currently representing more than 50 percent of the company’s Card Member Spending, nearly 90 percent of its lending, and more than 60 percent its of revenues.

American Express National Bank provides American Express’ customers with access to consistent payments, financing, and savings products in three ways, including:

• Issuing and servicing charge and credit cards for the consumer and small business segments.

• Offering commercial loans to small and midsized merchants, as well as installment loans to consumers.

• Maintaining a Personal Savings program consisting of high-yield savings accounts and certificate of deposit products.

Colleagues across American Express’ key business units (known as “affiliates”) use their experience and skills to support AENB in executing on its strategy. In addition, many of American Express’ executives also serve as officers of AENB. AENB is governed by its own Board of Directors. It is regulated, supervised, and examined by several regulatory agencies, including the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for wide-ranging safety and soundness and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for adherence to federal consumer financial laws. All AENB colleagues, officers, and affiliates have a long-standing commitment to driving strong and standardized risk management practices in accordance with the OCC’s Heightened Standards guidelines.

The Enterprise Control Management Utility within AENB operates as a Center of Excellence to serve as a central support hub for all first-line control management teams throughout the enterprise and be a key connection point with the second-line GRC teams.

The Senior Manager of Issue Management Execution will support the Director in driving the issues management process, including triage and execution, across the 1st Line of Defense (1LoD) for complex cross-Line of Business (LOB) risk and regulatory initiatives. This role is essential in ensuring effective issue resolution, embedding accountability throughout the enterprise, and driving the execution of complex cross-LOB issue remediation efforts.

Responsibilities Include: ​

• Assist the Director in driving issues management, including triage and execution across the 1LoD for complex cross-LOB risk and regulatory initiatives.​

• Engage with key stakeholders, including business unit leaders, compliance officers, and regulatory bodies, to facilitate effective 1LoD issue management and resolution.​

• Perform QA on documentation of issues/ORE types, urgency, severity, and impact (e.g., impact analysis), and investigate as necessary to understand and address root causes.​

• Support and govern the end-to-end issue resolution process, embedding accountability.​

• Drive execution on complex cross-LOB issue remediation, working with partners across LoDs, particularly BUCM teams and 2LoD ORM.​

• Analyze trends in issues and events to identify potential systemic risks or control weaknesses in the enterprise and ensure lessons learned are integrated into future ORM practices.​

• Prepare reports on 1LoD issue status, resolution efficacy, trends, and outcomes to be presented to senior management and governance committees. ​

Desired Qualifications: ​

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business, Risk Management, or a related field; advanced degrees (e.g., MBA, MSc) or certifications are advantageous.​

• 4 years of experience in developing and implementing operational risk management programs and policy frameworks.​

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

• Deep understanding of relevant regulations and proven success working with external regulators.​

• Experience in a risk/control role within a financial institution.​

• Experience in supporting transformation and change initiatives within an organization.​

• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.​

• Experience in at least one of the following:​

• Scoping, prioritizing, and supporting remediation of operational issues.​

• Managing investigations and conducting root cause analysis to address repeated operational risk issue types.​

• Performing quality assurance on documentation of operational risk issues and events.​

• Overseeing cross-BU/enterprise-wide remediation processes for operational risk issues and events.​

• Reviewing documentation and maintaining records of operational risk issues and events to ensure transparency and accountability.​

• Overseeing E2E issue resolution processes, embedding accountability, and ensuring lessons learned are integrated into future operational risk management practices.

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Salary Range: $90,000.00 to $165,000.00 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: Risk

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-Utah-Sandy, US-Florida-Sunrise

Schedule Full-time

Tags ORMCM

Req ID: 24017411