Project Analyst - Compliance

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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.

GFCC’s Program Governance team oversees financial crimes-related 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).

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Program Governance - Strategy & Enablement team that is responsible for oversight and strategic support to effectively drive and enhance the GFCC Program, partnering across the Compliance organization with SME’s and product owners, 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 work across markets and functions to enable enhancement through effective project management and robust analysis to provide key insights to senior stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be able to coordinate across multiple projects simultaneously and to thrive in a changing environment. They will have a proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues throughout the company, and experience working on global initiatives.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Managing global projects to enhance the Financial Crimes Program, ensuring key stakeholder engagement and alignment and timely risk mitigation.
• Problem solving to enable effective resolution of obstacles to project delivery.
• Ensuring Compliance requirements, roles, and responsibilities are clearly documented to enable ongoing program enhancement.
• Partnering with Compliance SMEs and business partners to track and analyze 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
• Analyzing outputs from existing risk management tools and systems to identify enhancement opportunities and inform decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Salary Range : $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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