American Express jobs - Financial Analyst II

Purpose Of The Role

As part of a world-class Controllership group, the C&FRC organization is responsible for managing end to end credit and fraud process from reserve adequacy assessment through to the external and regulatory reporting.

Additionally, the C&FRC processes underwent a significant change with the implementation of IFRS9 effective January 2018 and CECL effective January 2020. They will work closely with Controllership, Risk, Risk Finance, Technologies, and other groups responsible for day to day deliverables.

This role will support tech development of various features for credit reserving, disclosures and management report as a Business Specialist and will form a part of the Troubled Debt Restructuring Group within the C&FRC organization.

Responsibilities

• Create and communicate the vision, value and priorities of the product and collaborate closely and constantly with the development team and broader product owner team on the delivery of product features
• Understand the needs of the business and the user with respect to the product/features
• Gather feature requests from other business stakeholders and manage and prioritize them into a single backlog
• Support user story creation and refinement including clear acceptance criteria
• Create functional specification and process specific design documentation to support process and report owner requirements
• Help prepare and prioritize user stories for sprint planning and backlog refinement meetings
• Actively participate in the sprint planning, backlog refinement and sprint review meetings
• Attend daily stand-ups and answer questions and remove impediments
• Work closely and coordinate with various Product Owners, Process Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Solution Architecture colleagues, and Data Management team to ensure builds are appropriate for American Express products
• Lead user acceptance testing, parallel run testing, and any other testing required to ensure the build meets the requirements authored including development and execution of test cases, and documentation of results
  
  

Critical Factors To Success

• Stay relevant & agile to business / functional requirements.
• Lead with a digital mindset - understand, leverage & implement technical changes
• Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders
• Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings
  
  

Past Experience

• Experience in areas like project management, process governance & control & compliance is required
• SAS, SQL, HIVE, Pyspark, and data analysis experience
• Product/platform understanding and process design experience
• Testing management and execution experience
• Foundational data warehousing principles and data modeling experience is a plus
• Agile trained is a plus
• In addition to above, experience with credit reserves and portfolio analysis, financial modeling and accounting is a plus
• Experience with financial reporting requirements and processes is a plus
• Exhibits organizational skills with the ability to meet/exceed critical deadlines and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously
• A self-starter, proactive team player with a passion to consistently deliver high quality service and exceed customers’ expectations
• Excellent Communication Skills; Verbal, Written
  
  
  Minimum Qualifications
  

Academic Background:

• Degree in Software or Computer Engineering
• 2-5 years of testing management, project work experience including strong techno-functional skills
  
  

Functional Skills/Capabilities

• Strong process orientation and analytical problem-solving skills, demonstrated process improvement
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, strong collaboration and relationship skills
• Excellent relationship building, presentation and collaboration skills
  
  

Technical Skills/Capabilities

• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of financial systems
• A good understanding of the banking products is a plus
• SAS, SQL, HIVE, Pyspark and data analysis experience
• Knowledge of Big Data Platforms
• Awareness of relevant US GAAP/Local GAAP/IFRS is a plus
  

Behavioral Skills/Capabilities

• Results driven, self-starter, able to lead and influence without direct authority
• Ability to be flexible, prioritize multiple demands, and effectively manage in a matrix organization