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Job Description 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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
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.
How will you make an impact in this role?
The Finance Controllership organization is looking for a talented and experienced product owner to drive the transformation of Regulatory Reporting capabilities across our international markets. These products will support the highly complex nature of the evolving regulations across countries and ensure we meet compliance needs with high stability and flexibility. The transformation will drive efficiency and improvements in agility, cost, innovation, and speed to market.
As a product owner for the International Regulatory Reporting team, you will be critical part of supporting market regulatory needs. Your primary responsibility will be to conduct data analysis, data mapping and validation during Discovery and Envisioning phases of each process. You will also be working side by side with engineering teams to prioritize the backlog, develop features and collaborate to deliver on Controllership initiatives. You will work with execution teams to ensure delivery of consistently high-quality, timely feature launches.
- Communicate and build consensus across multiple teams in multiple geographies and time zones, working effectively through both virtual and in-person channels.
- Partner closely with and influence key functional and execution teams, including other Product Management, Technology, Operation and Compliance teams.
- Translate complex finance objectives into capabilities and features, working closely with engineering teams to support delivery.
- Navigate intricate finance & technology dependencies and communicate impacts to key stakeholders.
- Ability to support e2e product management, including building and maintaining a continually prioritized product roadmap and backlog of refined capabilities, features, and user stories.
- Identify and communicate risks for work that is in-flight and collaborate with Finance & Technology SMEs to provide viable alternatives to mitigate those risks
- Maintain an understanding of the current and future state of regulations across markets to anticipate, identify and prioritize needs and risks in a timely fashion
- Comfortable navigating Agile and SAFe practices for e2e product delivery.
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years experience in product management with an ascending level of responsibility.
- 4+ years experience in data analysis.
- Strong SQL knowledge and practical experience in multiple database platforms.
- Blend of Finance and Technology experience is critical for this role. Technical discipline degree with Finance experience or Finance-focused degree with technology experience.
- Experience with software and product development processes and tools (Rally/Jira, Confluence, etc).
- Experience with International Finance Regulatory Reporting or compliance practices.
- Experience with SDLC with a focus on agile and scrum software delivery methodologies.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels, internally and externally.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages to various audiences, including senior leaders.
- Enthusiasm for innovation, problem-solving, risk mitigation and skilled at translation and articulation of product needs
- Proficient in creating clear and concise communications using Microsoft Office tools: Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Visio
- Strong analytical & problem-solving skills and excellent organizational skills
- Project management skills, ability to prioritize and complete tasks.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with one or more programming languages is desirable.
- Knowledge of financial services industry and associated products is desirable.
- Experience driving delivery of enterprise capabilities at a global company.
Qualifications
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones’ physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- 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
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
About Us
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. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.