Financial Analyst

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The Financial Analyst of Asset-backed Securitization (“ABS”) is a key position within Global Treasury Controllership. ABS provides one of the primary funding sources for American Express. American Express periodically securitizes Card Member receivables and loans arising from its card business through the transfer of those assets to securitization trusts. The trusts then issue securities to third-party investors, collateralized by the transferred assets. 

The ABS Controllership team is responsible for the accounting, cash management, controls, and SEC & Trust Investor reporting requirements to help support this vital funding source for American Express. The team is committed to excellence, talent development, encouraging work/life balance, and timely recognition of team members. This position will perform accounting, reporting, and analysis for the ABS Trusts. The ABS Analyst will be responsible for the key deliverables for the trusts, including daily settlement activity and the monthly reporting.

Responsibilities include:

• Perform cash settlement activities within the ABS system (ABS Suite+), including but not limited to daily cash settlement
• Perform accounting activities, including daily accounting, ABS model updates, documentation of key processes, and balance checks
• Prepare monthly trust servicer report within ABS Suite+, and responsible for the filing
• Perform reporting activities, including regulatory submissions, intercompany balance reporting, financial submissions, SEC reporting, and monthly reconciliations
• Ensure a strong internal control environment including SOX and other controls & compliance
• Provide support for automation of ABS processes, and become SME for ABS Suite+ to support business initiatives / key projects
• Provide monthly and ad-hoc data submission to the business and Finance leadership in a standardized and intuitive manner
• Support automation of ABS processes, and the evolution of optimization and standardization for the asset-backed securitization process including working closely with treasury, legal, technology, Bank and other business partners

Minimum Qualifications:

• High level of proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or relevant work experience
• Ability to articulate complex ideas with brevity, simplicity and impact
• Flexibility to effectively function in a fast-paced environment, high energy team player
• Excellent communication skills with an innate ability to interact at all levels of the organization
• Confidence to ask questions, develop a point of view, and voice an opinion in meetings with senior executives
• Motivated self-starter able to operate on multiple, conf