Senior Analyst-Control Management

The U.S. Consumer Services Team is responsible for our suite of consumer products, services, and experiences in the U.S., including our premium, cobrand, cash back, and lending portfolios, Membership Rewards, Global Travel & Lifestyle Services, the Centurion Lounge network, our Global Dining and Resy businesses, U.S. Consumer Banking, and best-in-class marketing programs across customer, prospect, and partner channels. The USCS team is focused on making membership an indisputable competitive advantage and helping each other become better leaders every day.

The objective of the US Consumer Services Control Management Issues, Events & Remediation team is to ensure timely identification, response, and resolution of risk events and issues to minimize impact, as well as to prevent recurrence through effective remediation and lesson learning.

US Consumer Services is looking for a Sr. Analyst of Issues, Events & Remediation focused on ensuring control management is embedded in the day-to-day operations of our organization. It will involve extensive collaboration with multiple partners across numerous business units, functional areas, and geographies. 

• Support End-to-End (E2E) BU gap resolution process in partnership with owning BU and in accordance with existing issue/Operational Risk Event (ORE) remediation procedures. and tracking progress.
• Validating resolution efficacy and communicating status updates to stakeholders
• Collaborate on investigation and conduct root cause analysis to address repeated issue types
• Perform quality assurance on documentation and maintenance of records of specific issues/OREs and remediations to ensure transparency and accountability in the issue management process
• Identify trends in issues and events to identify potential systemic risks or control weaknesses within BU processes
• Support portions of the End-to-End (E2E) BU issue resolution process
• Perform sample testing of specific issues to ensure resolution is complete and effective
• Analyze data to assist in preparation of detailed reports on issue status, trends, and outcomes
• Support sharing insights, better practices, themes, etc. across the enterprise

Required Qualifications:  

• 2+ Years experience in operational risk management or similar. 
• Strong Project management, communication, and interpersonal skills 
• Experience in complex project management, process governance, with an understanding of processes that align with policies, regulatory frameworks, and/or operational standards 
• Sound analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to analyze data, identify trends, and evaluate risk scenarios effectively

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business, Risk Mgmt., Computers or related field; advanced degrees (e.g., MBA, MSc) or certifications are advantageous 
• Scoping, prioritizing, and support remediation of operational issues
• Experience investigating and conducting root cause analysis to address repeated operational risk issue types
• Facilitating quality assurance on documentation of operational risk issues and events
• Recommendation of remediation process for operational risk issues and events
• Performing Quality Assurance of documentation and maintaining records of operational risk issues and events to ensure transparency and accountability
• Supporting the BU E2E issue resolution process.
  
  Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions