Analyst - Compliance (Data Visualization )

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American Express’ Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) team is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering, 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 company’s enterprise-wide AML function. GFCC is part of the broader Global Risk & Compliance organization.  

The Program Governance team oversees project management, inter-company agreements (ICA), issue management, the new product approval process, audit, and independent compliance testing (ICT), and financial institution due diligence (FIDD) for GFCC. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Program Governance - Strategy & Enablement team that are responsible for oversight and strategic support to effectively drive and enhance the GFCC Program, partnering across the Compliance organization with SME’s and with business partners across the enterprise.

The expectations of our regulators, across the globe, continue to grow, and we need to ensure that our Financial Crimes Program continues to be effective and efficient globally, whilst also delivering to regulatory expectations at a market level. The role will support the team in providing governance of the Financial Crimes Compliance Program activities, through effectively facilitating stakeholder meetings and providing reporting, leveraging internal and external data sources, to identify key risks and emerging themes and inform required actions. The role will also enable enhancement to the program through effective project management of key initiatives.

The successful candidate will be able to facilitate meetings, drive alignment and delivery of outcomes and determine key insights for Senior Leadership on risks impacting the Financial Crimes Program. They will have a proven ability to work collaboratively, develop strong working relationships with colleagues throughout the company, be able to work simultaneously on different initiatives and thrive in a changing environment.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Ensuring effective governance of GFCC Leadership meetings including preparation and retention of minutes and presentations, tracking of actions and decisions and insightful reporting for Financial Crimes Program impacting issues and initiatives.
  
• Partnering with Compliance SMEs and business partners to track and analyze activities and enhancement progress and adherence to compliance standards, ensuring that issues are clearly identified and escalated, and that various stakeholder groups have the relevant information they need to assess progress and understand remaining regulatory risks – at the market, business unit and legal entity level.
  
• Ensuring Compliance requirements, roles, and responsibilities are clearly documented to enable ongoing program enhancement.
  
• Building upon regular reporting to summarize financial crimes trends and risks across Lines of Business and global markets to meet the needs of stakeholders of differing levels of seniority.
  
• Analyzing outputs from risk management tools, systems and reports to provide clear and insightful reporting for various audiences.
  
• Identifying opportunities to further enhance the current reporting and processes.
  
• Analyzing high risk issues impacting the program to determine root causes and key themes.
  
• Managing global projects to enhance the Financial Crimes Program, ensuring key stakeholder engagement and alignment and timely risk mitigation.
  
• Problem solving to provide resolution options for obstacles to delivery of initiatives.
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years proven experience and track record of success in program governance or project management within compliance or risk management.
  
• Ability to effectively deliver initiatives through partnership and alignment with multiple internal stakeholders with competing needs.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to communicate confidently and effectively with senior stakeholders.
  
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to understand and communicate clear insights from data and information, across varied sources.
  
• Advanced excel skills (Pivot tables, Macros, or Power Query) and Power BI is an asset.  Experience of using Tableau and risk management systems (Archer) would be beneficial.
  
• A consistently high performer with the ability to work independently, able to successfully balance multiple priorities over both the short and long term.
  
• Exceptional organizational skills and an extremely positive “can-do” attitude
  
• Strong written and verbal English skillset and experience in producing official meeting minutes and charters.
  
• Flexibility to accommodate schedules with business partners in various global markets when needed.
  
• Proven to have a global mindset; able to work well across time zones and work cultures.
  
• A working knowledge of the Financial Crimes program would be beneficial, as would experience within Operational Excellence, Audit or Compliance.
  

• 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