Manager-Financial Crime Risk Operations

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International Operational Excellence is a newly expanded organization, responsible for supporting our international Issuing and our international Acquiring businesses across 27+ markets in ensuring a robust first line of defence.

Our organization helps our international businesses manage risk, respond to new regulation, and develop new products whilst nurturing effective partnerships across multiple key stakeholders. The organisation also leads an enterprise-wide International Financial Crimes Transformation program and is building an international first line privacy function designed to strengthen our enterprise-wide controls around privacy and information protection.

Financial crime risk management is a critical mission for American Express. The Financial Crime Risk management team’s core principles is to build robust controls and governance by applying a risk-based approach, building adaptable and scalable enterprise level capabilities, automate processes, provide a high-quality customer experience, and foster coordination across 1st and 2nd line of defence.

Within Financial crime risk management, Team is looking to recruit a Manager to support the India Task Force team, including delivering on Know your Customer (KYC) activities and other AML obligations.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right talent with a passion in process and operations management to join our team.

Reporting to the Director, key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Support in onboarding new colleagues in the team and build expertise in financial risk management and KYC related processes


• Lead daily operations and processes with near term focus on KYC related processes at onboarding and refresh across all ICS markets and businesses


• Lead delivery of initiatives, driving visibility in program health & progress


• Manage proprietary and outsourced resources


• Responsible for driving productivity, operational efficiency and maintaining quality


• Drive colleague engagement and motivation by timely and effective communication


• Work with internal/external stakeholders as required to follow up on projects key deliveries


• Coordinate the collaboration with all relevant AXP teams across all lines of defense


• Communicate concisely and effectively to the senior leadership, including preparation of dashboards, MIS’s


• Ensure 100% focus on compliance

• Operational experience in setting up new team and experience in managing large teams


• Results orientated (Setting Priorities, Taking Accountability)


• Proven track record to coach proprietary and third-party resources with strict focus on compliance


• Manage third parties, with focus on information security and related aspects


• Strong analytical and problem-solving skill set with attention to detail


• Proven ability to navigate internal and external stakeholder landscapes


• Excellent presentation & communication skills across all levels


• Knowledge of digital tools for automation etc.

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