Director-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.

Global Financial Initiatives and Integrity (GFII) plays a critical role supporting Business and Finance driven initiatives by ensuring the ongoing integrity of the Company’s accounting and financial reporting (as required by AEMP 16, American Express’s internal management policy that defines a consistent standard for control and financial reporting requirements that must be established during any technology change).  GFII team is organized under the following key pillars: Global Loyalty & Benefits, Network, & Banking; Global AR, Merchant, & Enterprise Transformation; and Strategy & GFII Program Management Office (PMO).  

How will you make an impact in this role?

This role, Director, GFII Global AR, Merchant & Enterprise Transformation Modernization, will join the Global AR, Merchant & Enterprise Transformation pillar in GFII and lead and develop a global team of professionals responsible for representing Finance’s accounting and reporting requirements in the Company’s technology modernization activities, high priority business initiatives, and new product launches.

The GFII Director is highly collaborative, detail oriented, with exceptional leadership, communication, and relationship building skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop strong team with diverse skills sets and experiences, creating an inclusive culture and that understands other’s viewpoints and empowers colleagues to ensure the team is successful
• Lead delivery of Finance requirements through the Agile lifecycle across Global AR, Merchant & Enterprise Transformation portfolios and/or other business processes
• Provide strategic and thought leadership to support modernization of global AR and Merchant platforms
• Drive AEMP16 through consistent approach to defining Finance and control requirements, producing robust project documentation, and ensuring appropriate communication with stakeholders and leadership
• Develop and maintain strong relationships across Finance, Business, and Technology partners to drive positive outcomes for Finance and early engagement in initiatives
• Understand end-to-end Finance processes and products and partner with Business, Technology, and Finance teams to drive prioritization and delivery of Finance requirements that enable transformation of Finance processes through increased automation
• Manage the creation of testing strategy, test cases, test results, prioritization of defects and enhancements for initiatives
• Enable Finance Modernization through strong partnership with Finance Product Owners
• Execute strong project governance through effective change management, delivery of regular status updates to stakeholders and leaders, and proactive identification and communication of project and operational risks to leadership and key partners to remediate

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance/Accounting and/or Information Technologies (master’s preferred) 
• 8+ years of work experience in Banking/Financial Services
• Experienced in Agile delivery concepts or other project management methodologies.
• Understanding of US GAAP requirements and financial control principles and practices
• Excellent people leadership skills with strong ability to model Amex leadership behaviors and build a diverse, inclusive team