Senior Manager-Financial Systems

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

This position is part of a team that manages the data and business architecture for pan finance solutions within the Finance Data, Technology & Transformation group. The primary responsibility for this role is to lead the end-to-end data and process architecture and delivery for projects for multiple line of businesses within Finance organization at American Express. This role will primarily be responsible for determining the proper sources and processes for acquiring, enriching, and provisioning data required by Finance processes in the following major areas: Financial Reporting, Operational Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, Management Reporting, and Advanced Analytics processes.

The job’s focus will also include - but not limited to:

·         Lead the analysis of Finance process and system requirements

·         Define the functional design for data acquisition, enrichment, and provisioning process.

·         Partner with Finance stakeholders and Technology partners to design, build, test and deploy solutions to fulfill Finance process requirements.

·         Test case and plan creation, execution, and coordination

The responsibilities of this role include:

·         Finance process analysis

o   Work with the Finance process owners and other teams to understand and document their process requirements in terms of data and required transformations

o   Participate in development of plans and strategies, best practices, and standards related to data management processes, data products, data security and programs

o   Work with product team to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a prioritized list of data requirements / user stories

o   Document processing requirements, including data and transaction volumes, scalability, security and performance requirements

·         Solution Design

o   Work with AET, Finance partners, source system owners, and other stakeholders to locate the data required by Finance and ensure the data architecture design supports Finance’s reporting and analytics requirements

o   Identify required reference data needs and design the processes for collecting and maintaining reference data

o   Design processes to acquire the required data and ensure data integrity, accuracy, and completeness

o   Design processes to enrich and provision data to the required Finance processes

o   Contribute to decisions about tools, methods and approaches

o   Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

·         Build/Deployment

o   Work with AET, Finance partners, source system owners, an