Financial Analyst
American Express
Financial Analyst
American Express
Issues credit cards and runs a payment network
Finance is a collaborative team, playing a key role in advising all areas of the business. We have a strategic seat at the table, and our unique insights are valued in a highly competitive marketplace and increasingly complex global regulatory environment. 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.
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Behavioral Skills/Capabilities: Enterprise Leadership Behaviors
Responsible for management & governance of monthly accounting for legal entities
Managing end-to-end responsibility of one of the non-banking legal entities
Monthly review of financials to provide critical inputs to entity controller on various cost analytics and services fee charge-out
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.
Monthly/Quarterly update to Legal Governance Committee / Board members and ensuring all regulatory compliances.
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
Responsibilities: Critical Factors to Success:
Business Outcomes:
Own & maintain financial/data integrity
Stay relevant to the business/functional requirements
Understand & leverage intelligent automation technologies to generate use cases within the team & create opportunities to support the automation team to get that implemented
Leadership Outcomes:
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.
Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity.
Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day.
Issues credit cards and runs a payment network
American Express issues credit and pay-in-full charge cards to consumers and businesses, and unlike most card issuers it also runs the payment network its cards use. Its Travelers Cheque, launched in 1891, made carrying money abroad safer, and in 1959 it became the first major issuer of plastic cards. Cardholders earn points toward flights and hotels plus perks such as airport lounges, while companies use its corporate cards for employee travel and expenses. American Express earns a fee from merchants on each purchase, plus annual fees and interest on balances cardholders carry. Henry Wells and William Fargo, who later started Wells Fargo, co-founded it in 1850 as a freight delivery business; it is based in New York City.
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