About the position
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. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong. Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together. The Global Risk & Compliance Organization (GRC) is an independent risk management function, led by the Chief Risk Officer, with the objective of ensuring that American Express operates in a safe, sound, and fully compliant manner with all applicable regulatory expectations. GRC creates and maintains the overall risk management framework, performs independent risk management assessments, and monitors applicable risks. Colleagues at GRC are passionate about our commitment to drive the Company's goals of growth and progress by creating a culture of risk awareness and proactivity around regulatory matters. The Compliance Risk Management team facilitates and monitors the implementation of effective compliance risk management programs throughout the organization, and oversees risk ownership throughout business units, products, and processes. The objective of Compliance Risk Management Governance team is to develop, oversee and strengthen the organization's Compliance Risk Management framework to ensure that governance structures, policies, and procedures are robust, effective, and align with regulatory requirements and best practices. The Audit & Regulatory Engagement team supports the Compliance Risk Management internal and external exams and audits, ensures timely closure of findings, and educates partners with an examiner and regulator mindset. The Audit & Regulatory Engagement Analyst will play a key role in supporting the Compliance Risk Management Program (CRMP) by coordinating and managing regulatory examinations, internal audits, and other CRMP-related reviews.
Responsibilities
- Support the end-to-end management of regulatory exams and internal audits, including tracking requests, gathering documentation, and ensuring timely responses.
- Liaise with internal teams, including Legal, Risk, and Business Units, to ensure alignment and completeness of exam and audit responses.
- Monitor and track regulatory and audit findings, ensuring appropriate remediation plans are developed and executed.
- Assist in enhancing exam and audit management processes, identifying areas for improvement, and supporting ongoing CRMP enhancements.
- Stay informed of regulatory developments and industry best practices to help strengthen compliance risk management practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or 1-3 years professional experience.
- Experience in operational or compliance risk management, government agency/regulator, or audit functions is a plus.
- Proven capacity to engage effectively with all levels of management and foster strong relationships.
- Demonstrated experience and competency in the assessment of risks and controls.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated integrity, innovation, teamwork, and excellence.
- Ability to break down a complex problem into components and solve them using data analysis.
- Excellent storytelling and visualization skills, with interest in working with data.
- Self-starter and independent thinker with strong critical reasoning skills.
- Strong skills with Microsoft Office products including Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple and often conflicting priorities under tight timeframes.
Nice-to-haves
- Relevant audit and compliance professional certification (CRCM, CIA, CFE, etc.).
- Advanced degree in Accounting or another related field.
- Proficiency in Tableau, Microsoft Access, SQL, Power BI, Python, SAS, Hive and/or Spark.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
- Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
- Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
- Career development and training opportunities
