Senior Associate, Portfolio Management

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?

Technology Portfolio Management (TPM), within Enterprise Technology Services, powers technology, business, and product to achieve business and customer value by optimizing technology investments, elevating transparency and enabling decisioning through trusted insights and best in class portfolio and program management.

The Associate Portfolio Analyst role presents a dynamic opportunity for a motivated and accomplished professional to manage all aspects of the operating expense base for the Tech Portfolio Management (TPM) organization. As a Portfolio Analyst, you will establish strong partnerships with the TBE leadership team, Finance, and peers across Tech Portfolio Management to ensure the financial success of TPM through sound financial management of monthly operating expenses. This position goes beyond traditional financial analysis and portfolio management, requiring advanced technical proficiency and experience optimizing processes through automation and tooling. Additionally, the successful candidate will require a transformational mindset and the ability to communicate and influence process and tooling requirements to empower new ways of working across TPM with appropriate controls and governance.

We are seeking a top performer that is highly organized and an effective communicator. You show up with passion, are not afraid to challenge the status quo and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

· Partners across the team to monitor and track portfolio performance against delivery, cost, budget, resource allocation, forecast, schedule, and quality targets, ensuring the successful execution of the portfolio of tech projects.

· Takes ownership in managing and ensuring successful financial, delivery and operational outcomes across the portfolio – leveraging data analytics and insights to gather and formulate status updates and escalating delivery risks when needed.

· Collaborates closely with finance teams to ensure alignment of budgets, actuals, and forecasts, maintaining financial accuracy and supporting budget management.

· Plays key role in driving continuous improvement of portfolio processes through tooling and automation, identifying, influencing and implementing best practices to enhance overall Portfolio Management efficiency and effectiveness.

· Builds strong partnerships across technology, product, finance, and the business to understand stakeholder needs, manage expectations, user requirements and deliver against strategic priorities.

· Acts as change agent throughout the organization with an ability to guide individuals and teams through transition while enabling and supporting implementation of process and tool improvements to maximize benefits.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Finance, Information Technology, and/or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred.

· Advanced technical skills including but not limited to Apptio, Jira, Power BI, advanced Excel, General Ledger, and Amex AI tools (including ChatGPT and Copilot) with experience in leveraging automation to drive data analytics and financial modeling.

· Ability to synthesize complex financial data for a non-finance savvy audience.

· Strong relationship building with the ability to collaborate and influence without authority.

· Demonstrated success navigating change and exhibiting in