Financial Analyst

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 lets lead the way together.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing Balance sheet Reconciliation Research & Clearance and Analytics
• Sustain enterprise-wide Balance Sheet health while remaining focused on efficiency and sustaining financial integrity for the company including ensuring timely research & clearance of BS reconciling items
• Collaborate with key stakeholders - Account Owners, Regulators and Entity/Segment Controllers
• Pursue continuous improvement in execution, lead intelligent automation and monitor compliance with management policies.
• Responsible for improving control environment by ensuring satisfactory audit experience and enhancing internal controls
• Ensure controls & compliance with prevailing policies & procedures such as SOX, Process Risk Self-Assessment and support Statutory/Internal audits
• Continuously challenge the Status Quo and seek opportunity for redesign/automate
• Lead team of accounting professionals, coaching them on tactical and strategic execution, as well as professional leadership and development

Required Qualification:

• Should be a Graduate with 1-3 years of relevant work experience.
• Well-developed analytical skills, ability to understand the linkages to processes.
• Demonstrated Accounting expertise.
• Ability to think innovatively and to pursue ideas with conviction.
• Excellent team player with strong Inter-Personal skills and communication skills both written and spoken.
• The Incumbent should be Assertive, should be able to influence & corroborate without direct authority.
• A self-starter with ability to operate under ambiguous circumstances.
• Must have good Communication and Interpersonal skills and be able to interact with senior leadership, with Finance, multiple employee levels /Business Partners/Customers etc.,
• Demonstrate leadership skills needed to create, develop, train, motivate and communicate with diverse work force.
• Must have strong, proven People Management skills. handling cross functional and cross-cultural teams.

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
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• 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

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.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.