American Express India | Analyst-Compliance

Key responsibilities

• This position will be specifically dedicated to the Independent Compliance Testing (“ICT”) team supporting the Global Risk and Compliance Monitoring & Testing (M&T) function.
• Assist Managers/ Directors in the execution of assigned M&T tasks in department standards, methodology, budgets, and deadlines for all phases of the testing including planning, fieldwork, reporting and wrap-up.
• Assist in the management of routine client status meetings, testing requests, and other administrative tasks.
• Assist in the documentation and evaluation of M&T observations and findings and subsequent validation of management’s actions taken to address such findings.
• Work on simultaneous integrated M&T projects for different leaders.
• Develop and document ideas for analytical control testing to expand the breadth and depth of testing coverage.
• Develop familiarity with Compliance risk across all lines of businesses, globally.
• Maintain internal M&T competency through ongoing professional development.

Requirements

• 3 years of experience in audit, monitoring and testing, or risk management in the financial services, banking, or card products industries.
• Experience and competency in the assessment of risks, control design and effectiveness and process assessment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong regulatory knowledge of consumer compliance and a strong desire to learn relevant regulations.
• Strong knowledge of issue management and risk system management.
• Self-starter along with passion for continuous innovation with a view to drive organizational improvements and impacts.
• Ability to work with unstructured tasks/ risk pillar and provide a structured output.
• Experience in analyzing data, interpreting results, identifying potential discrepancies and/or risk and experience with data analytics tools and data visualization.
• Possess a strong understanding of banking systems and processes, strong computer knowledge, and excellent MS Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint skills.
• Excellent storytelling and visualization skills.
• Demonstrated integrity, innovation, teamwork, and excellence.
• Advanced degree in Accounting, or another related field.
• Relevant M&T and compliance professional certifications are preferred (Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) etc.) Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) etc.
• Interest in working with data, interpreting results, analytic best practices and experience with data analytics tools and data visualization is a plus.
• Ability to break down a complex problem into components, solve them by potentially using data analysis, process knowledge and risk/control knowledge, and communicate data analysis, issues and control recommendations with transparency and integrity.

American Express

American Express is a global payments company known for its card products, merchant network and travel services. It was founded in New York in 1850.

Its Indian teams work on finance, risk, analytics, operations and technology for markets around the world. Chartered accountants typically join financial analysis, controllership and reporting teams.

• Industry: Payments and financial services
• Headquarters: New York, USA
• In India: Large teams in Gurugram and Bengaluru