Senior Manager - Financial Systems

American Express•Charlotte, NC

28d•Hybrid

About The Position

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express. This role is for a Product Owner in the Reporting and Enterprise Initiative Product Owners team supporting the Regulatory Reporting automation program. This individual will be responsible for delivering the end-to-end automation of our regulatory reporting platform. This individual will coordinate with several groups within American Express during the course of designing, implementing, and migrating the implemented solution into production. The individual selected will partner closely with the Data Sourcing Architects and Process Owners to drive the priorities of the technology scrum team and ensure that the software features developed aligns with original requirements provided. Also, the individual would need to monitor project progress, solve issues that arise and write technical features and user stories. This role will require strong collaboration with Technology to design how functionality will work and design the validation process at regular intervals that the software features developed align with original requirements provided to the team.

Requirements

6+ years of work experience in the US Federal Reserve/financial US regulatory reporting, banking/financial services, and/or Controllership
Degree in Finance/Accounting, Engineering and/or Information Technologies or equivalent professional experience
Demonstrated strong experience in leading regulatory reporting automation or other regulatory solution implementation projects in large-scale banking/financial organization
Knowledge of US Regulatory Reports (Y9C, Y14, Y15, Y11, amongst others)
Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework, have an Agile mindset, and can embrace new opportunities and adapt easily to change
Strong knowledge and working experience in regulatory regulations and reporting is required and any exposure to US regulations is preferred
Experience eliciting and documenting technical business requirements via the creation of features and user stories
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
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to create impactful relationships with key stakeholders
Excellent relationship building, presentation and collaboration skills
Excellent written and verbal communications with ability to communicate highly complex concepts and processes in simple terms and pragmatically across Finance, Business and Technology stakeholders
Display thought leadership, drive process, and support work/life balance initiatives

Nice To Haves

SaFe Agile and/ or Project Management Professional (PMP) certified is a plus
SQL and data analysis experience
Testing management and execution experience
Previous work experience in various IT disciplines such as Infrastructure, software development, data management or data analytics
Foundational data architecture principles and data management experience

Responsibilities

Participate in daily stand ups with the pods (implementation groups for various portfolios of the Company for data sourcing and regulatory classification and reporting), leading and delivering efficient solutions with complex prioritization and business requirements
Lead and guide regulatory reporting data and automation requirements on existing processes and datasets to understand and support Point of Arrival (POA) process design
Develop functional requirements documentation and process specific design documentation to support regulatory report owner requirements and testing lifecycle processes
Understand and guide determining portfolios, data elements and attribute analysis grain of data required for designing processes
Work with complex cross functional teams: Engineers, Architects, governance & business partners
Closely collaborate with users to understand the pain points, requirements, feedback and provide them with timely resolutions
Identify and support business requirements, functional design, prototyping, testing, training, and supporting implementations
Design and build ongoing data process controls by collaborating with Technology and Data Governance as needed
Manage program blocking issues, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical or operational constraints
Document and understand core components of solution architecture including data patterns, data-related capabilities, and standardization and conformance of disparate datasets
Lead and guide the implementation of master and reference data to be used across operational and reporting processes
Coordinate with various Product Owners, Process Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Solution Architecture colleagues, and Data Management team to ensure builds are appropriate
Knowledgeable in development methodologies, using tools such as SQL, to drive understanding of the system functionality and expected automation results

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