Team Assistant

You Lead the Way. We ve Got Your Back.

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.

About GRC

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 within all applicable regulatory expectations. GRC creates and maintain the overall risk management framework, performs independent risk management assessment, and monitor risks.

Colleagues at GRC are passionate about our commitment to drive the Company s goals of growth and progress by creating a culture of risk awareness and proactivity around regulatory matters. By partnering closely with business units across the enterprise, we help deliver maximum value to our shareholders and our customers efficiently and effectively through effective risk management and oversight activities.

Responsibilities:

The primary responsibility will be performing system-assisted compliance testing and testing design, including ad hoc analysis, on American Express systems.

Providing analytical support in the evaluation of various general credit, underwriting, customer management, and compliance-related policies and banking regulations.

Building transactional testing capabilities for the bank and continuously following up on exceptions generated through this capability.

Working with business partners to identify and evaluate means of new system-assisted testing for ICT reviews

Effectively utilize and promote disciplined project methodologies to facilitate the design, implementation, and control of system testing projects.

Potentially support special projects, compile data and prepare reports for senior management and other personnel.

Maintain necessary records and files to assure efficient and consistent reporting of compliance efforts.

Collaborating with risk, compliance, and business partners across multiple groups to ensure adherence to Bank policy and banking laws and regulations.

The position will interface regularly with business partners, examiners/auditors, and third-party vendors.

Minimum Qualifications

The qualified individual will have minimum 6 years of experience

Demonstrated proficiency using SQL, a variety of databases, and comfort and ease in accurately manipulating large datasets

Proficiency with Hive / HQL, Python, Jupyter notebooks, Spark

Familiarity with High Density File Systems (Big Data) such as Hadoop, and the tools required to import, export, and work with big data environments

Experience with Teradata and UNIX is desired

Proficiency with statistical methods and analysis

Strong analytical and project management skills, with a track record of driving results and problem solving.

Excellent organization, prioritization and collaboration skills are a must.

The candidate should be a highly motivated self-starter able to operate on multiple fronts with careful attention to detail

Undergraduate Degree in a quantitative field or equivalent work experience is required

Preferred Qualifications

Possess strong interpersonal, leadership and change management skills, as well as strong presentation and communication skills (written and verbal)

Be self-motivated, dependable, adaptable and detail oriented with a proven ability to work independently or within a team environment as required

Have a demonstrated ability to think conceptually, using strong analytical skills

Be able to explore and deduce comprehension of new unfamiliar datasets

Possess a strong understanding of bank systems and processes; strong computer knowledge; excellent MS Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint skills

Experience with machine learning algorithms preferred

Knowledge of IBM mainframe is desired but not required

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