American Express India | Senior Analyst-Control Management

Responsibilities

• Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
• 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.
• Assess risks associated with personal data collection, processing, sharing, retention, and deletion.
• Partner with business process owners to develop risk mitigation strategies.
• Evaluate control design and operating effectiveness.
• Identify control gaps, process weaknesses, and opportunities for control enhancements.
• Ensure controls are supported by appropriate documentation, ownership, procedures, and evidence.
• Support control standardization and automation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Understanding of critical operational risk management lifecycle activities.
• Experience managing risk issues, remediation plans, and audit findings.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and communicate risk matters to senior leadership.
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business, Risk Mgmt., or related field; advanced degrees (e.g., MBA, MSc) or certifications are advantageous.
• Experience in banking, financial services, payments, or other highly regulated industries.
• Professional certifications such as CIPP/US, CIPM, CRISC, CISA, or CRMP.
• Familiarity with GRC platforms such as Archer, ServiceNow GRC, or OneTrust.
• Experience with enterprise risk management and three-lines-of-defense models.

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