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This role is for Analyst Business Specialist in the Regulatory Reporting automation program. This individual will be responsible for assisting the Business Specialist Manager drive the definition, gathering, exploration, and analysis of Finance data to deliver the end-to-end automation of our regulatory reporting platform. This individual will assist the organization coordinate with several groups within American Express during designing, implementing, and migrating the implemented solution into production. The individual selected will partner closely with Business Specialist Manager and Product Owners to support defining functionality to be built, collaborate with Technology to design how functionality will work and validate at regular intervals that the software features developed align with original requirements provided to the team.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Support data analysis on existing processes and datasets to understand and support Point of Arrival (POA) process design
Support and guide determining portfolios, data elements and grain of data required for designing processes
Support team review data scenarios and provide clarification on how to report on these scenarios in alignment with regulatory guidance
Identify and support business requirements, functional design, prototyping, testing, training, and supporting implementations
Support developing functional requirement documents (FRDs) and process specific design documentation to support process and report owner requirements
Document and understand core components of solution architecture including data patterns, data-related capabilities, and standardization and conformance of disparate datasets
Support the implementation of master and reference data to be used across operational and reporting processes
Participate in daily meetings with the pods (implementation groups for various portfolios of the Company for data sourcing and regulatory classification and reporting).
Coordinate with various Product Owners, Process Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Solution Architecture colleagues, and Data Management team to ensure builds are appropriate for American Express products
Participate on user acceptance testing, parallel run testing, and any other testing required to ensure the build meets the requirements authored including development and execution of test cases, and documentation of results
Assist on development of executable testing algorithms that enable validation of the expected system functionality, including replication of deterministic logic and filtering criteria
Qualification and skills
SQL and data analysis experience
Product/platform understanding and process design experience
Knowledgeableabout ODS, OFSAA, and Hadoop concepts
Knowledgeablein Data Analytics/profiling
Knowledgeablewith creating S2T and Functional designs
Knowledgeablein creating Data Mappings, analyzing the SOR (System of Record) data, implementing Data Quality Rules to identify data issues in SORs
Experience with of MS Excel and Power Query
Testing management and execution experience
Foundational data warehousing principles and data modeling experience is a plus
Agile trained is a plus
Financial reporting or accounting experience is a plus
A good understanding of the banking products is a plus
Exhibits organizational skills with the ability to meet/exceed critical deadlines and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously
A self-starter, proactive team player with a passion to consistently deliver high quality service and exceed customers' expectations
Excellent written and verbal communications with ability to communicate highly complex concepts and processes in simple terms and pragmatically across Finance, Business and Technology stakeholders
Excellent relationship building, presentation and collaboration skills
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
Career development and training opportunities
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.