Senior Analyst-Control Management

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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. 

Here in Credit & Fraud Risk, our role at American Express is to drive prudent business growth while living out the high standards of our service heritage. This means proactively increasing borrowing capacity where we can. It means integrating our technical systems, so we speak with one voice across interactions. It means providing expertise for new product launches. And when we give customers bad news, it means offering options and avenues of appeal, so we move beyond one episode to win their future business. Purposeful, ambitious, insatiable, analytical, collaborative and courageous are the hallmarks of our Credit and Fraud Risk colleagues.

The objective of the Credit & Fraud Risk Control Management Issues, Events & Remediation team is to ensure timely identification, response, and resolution of risk events and issues to minimize impact, as well as to prevent recurrence through effective remediation and lesson learning.

Credit & Fraud Risk is looking for a Sr. Analyst of Issues, Events & Remediation focused on ensuring control management is embedded in the day-to-day operations of our organization. It will involve extensive collaboration with multiple partners across numerous business units, functional areas, and geographies.

The Sr. Analyst, Credit & Fraud Risk Issues, Events & Remediation will -

• Collaborate on investigation and conduct root cause analysis to address repeated issue types
• Perform quality assurance on documentation of certain issue/ORE type, urgency, severity/impact (e.g., impact analysis)
• Support portions of the remediation process, these may include:
  • Tracking progress 
  • Validating resolution efficacy and 
  • Communicating status updates to stakeholders 
• Perform quality assurance on documentation and maintenance of records of specific issues/OREs and remediations to ensure transparency and accountability in the issue management process
• Identify trends in issues and events to identify potential systemic risks or control weaknesses within BU processes
• Support portions of the End-to-End (E2E) BU issue resolution process
• Perform sample testing of specific issues to ensure resolution is complete and effective
• Analyze data to assist in preparation of detailed reports on issue status, trends, and outcomes
• Support sharing insights, better practices, themes, etc. across the enterprise

Required Qualifications:  

• 2+ Years experience in operational risk management (e.g., within Risk and/or Internal Audit function) Understanding of critical operational risk management lifecycle activities
• Project management, communication, and interpersonal skills 
• Experience in process governance, with an understanding of processes that align with policies, regulatory frameworks, and/or operational standards
• Sound analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to analyze data, identify trends, and evaluate risk scenarios effectively.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business, Risk Mgmt., or related field; advanced degrees (e.g., MBA, MSc) or certifications are advantageous
• Experience in at least one of the following: 
  • Scoping, prioritizing, and support remediation of operational issues
  • Experience investigating and conducting root cause analysis to address repeated operational risk issue types
  • Facilitating quality assurance on documentation of operational risk issues and events
  • Recommendation of remediation process for operational risk issues and events
  • Performing Quality Assurance of documentation and maintaining records of operational risk issues and events to ensure transparency and accountability
  • Supporting the BU E2E issue resolution process
  • ORMCM

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.

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