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Global Financial Crimes Compliance Team

American Express Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) team is owning the enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, and Anti-Corruption compliance functions. This team has global responsibility for identifying, investigating, and reporting suspicious activity, including money laundering and terrorist financing, and provides broad analytical and operational support for the enterprise-wide AML function. Global Financial Crimes Compliance is one of the segment/ departments of the broader Global Risk & Compliance (GRC) organization.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The Global Financial Crimes Compliance Project Manager will be responsible for driving coordination amongst various GFCC workstreams and collaborators to deliver against an important strategic technology transformation for the India market.

The Project Manager will play a meaningful role in planning and tracking project achievements and deliverables, as well as prioritizing and mobilizing subject matter experts across American Express s AML and Sanctions programs, including process owners, product owners, and technology teams. The successful candidate will capitalize on collaboration and communication skills, and an understanding of established project management and/or product management methodologies to deliver balanced, impactful changes to the GFCC program in India.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex initiative to transform GFCC technologies supporting the India market
• Draft and maintain a comprehensive project plan to supervise and coordinate delivery of all relevant project achievements and assignment.
• Clearly detail and communicate requirements, roles, and responsibilities to enable effective coordination amongst crucial teams and stakeholders
• Partner with process owners, product owners, technology teams, and third parties to translate GFCC technology needs into clear, concise, and accurate business requirements documentation
• Oversee implementation of new technologies, capabilities, and features, including oversight of development activities, testing, procedural updates, organizational change/ change management, and sustainability activities
• Provide updates and ongoing reporting to relevant collaborators and leadership, while ensuring that issues and risks are clearly identified, raised, and addressed.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in project management, product management or strategy development and implementation, preferably within a compliance or risk management organization
• Strong management, collaboration, organizational, and interpersonal skills with proven track record to empower and engage stakeholders
• Effective communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Problem solving approach, self-starter, with a keen sense of accountability and a track-record of success in a fast-paced environment
• Strong skills with Microsoft Office products including Excel and PowerPoint
• In-depth understanding of financial crimes programs and/or controls would be beneficial, but good to have.

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