American Express India | Financial Analyst

Responsibilities

• This team collaborates globally to deliver expert accounting, reporting & advisory services, and financial risk control & governance, while supporting business growth & protecting shareholder value Responsible for management & governance of monthly accounting for legal entities.
• Understand & leverage intelligent automation technologies to generate use cases within the team & create opportunities to support the automation team to get that implemented
• Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.
• Responsible for management & governance of monthly accounting for legal entities.
• Managing end-to-end responsibility of one of the non-banking legal entities.
• Analysis of Legal Entity Results, identification of anomalies during close.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, improve and automate existing processes within/across teams.
• Plan/coordinate with various stakeholders to execute process improvement opportunities.
• Partners with various groups to identify and leverage best practices.
• Manage & govern various regulatory filings and compliances.
• Compliance with prevailing policies & procedures etc.
• Ensure that all deadlines are continually met, and adequate controls are maintained over the processes to ensure integrity of the information.
• Maintain close contact with customer / business partners and other interface groups to ensure a smooth service delivery.
• Provide end to end support for the legal entity statutory / internal / other audits including discussion with auditors and drive closure of Internal and External Audit of Local as well as US GAAP ledgers.
• Coordinate with GFO/GBS functions to provide external audit support, including Reconciliations, Accounting and Payment Operations, plus World Services Cashiers as appropriate.
• Own & maintain financial/data integrity.
• Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings.
• Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day.
• Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective

Technical skills/capabilities

• Strong understanding of end-to-end accounting, basic understanding of reporting.
• Understanding of financial consolidation process.
• Ability to research and embed relevant best practices.
• Strong IGAAP/IND AS knowledge and awareness of US GAAP (Accounting knowledge).
• Analytical skills with the ability to undertake cause effect analysis.
• Working knowledge of automation tools like Tableau, Python, Natural Language Generation [NLG], Machine Learning Studio [MLS] etc. would be an added advantage.
• Behavioral Skills/Capabilities: Enterprise Leadership Behaviors.
• Knowledge of financial systems – Oracle, OBI etc, Advanced MS office suits such as Excel, Word, Power-point

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