Manager-Financial Systems

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This role is for a Product Owner in the US Regulatory Reporting automation program.  This individual will be responsible to deliver the end-to-end automation of our Basel regulatory reporting platform including managing the development of revised RWA and Capital calculation under the proposed US Basel Endgame regulations.  This individual will coordinate with several groups within American Express during the course of designing, implementing, and migrating the implemented solution into production. The individual selected will partner closely with the Data Sourcing Architects and Process Owners to drive the priorities of the technology scrum team and ensure that the software features developed aligns with original requirements provided. Also, the individual would need to monitor project progress, solve issues that arise and write technical features and user stories.

This role will require strong collaboration with Technology to design how functionality will work and design the validation process at regular intervals that the software features developed align with original requirements provided to the team.  

How will you make an impact in this role?
Participate in daily meetings with the pods (implementation groups for various portfolios of the Company for data sourcing and regulatory classification and reporting). 
Participate in daily meetings and drive prioritization within scrum teams or pods
Elicit and document technical business requirements via the creation of features and user stories
Work with complex cross functional teams: Engineers, Architects, governance & business partners
Develop understanding of Oracle infrastructure and existing processes and datasets to understand and support Point of Arrival (POA) process design
Closely collaborate with users to understand the pain points, requirements, feedback and provide them with timely resolutions
Understand business requirements, product gaps/requirement gaps and drive feature choices
Design and build ongoing data process controls by collaborating with Technology and Data Governance as needed
Manage program blocking issues, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical or operational constraints
Document and understand core components of solution architecture including data patterns, data-related capabilities, and standardization and conformance of disparate datasets.
Lead and guide the implementation of master and reference data to be used across operational and reporting processes.
Coordinate with various Product Owners, Process Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Solution Architecture colleagues, and Data Management team to ensure builds are appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications
Degree in Finance/Accounting and/or Information Technologies.
5+ years of work experience in Basel Regulatory regulations, US Federal Reserve/financial US regulatory reporting, banking/financial services, and/or Controllership.
Strong knowledge and working experience in Basel Capital Adequacy regulations is required and any exposure to US NPR regulations is preferred. Exposure to both Basel Standardized and Advanced approaches is required including knowledge to subject areas of Market Risk, CVA Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk in additional to Credit Risk.
Knowledge of US Regulatory Reports (Y9C, Y14, Y15, 2052a, amongst others), and general understanding of the banking products.
Experience eliciting and documenting technical business requirements via the creation of features and user stories
Strong understanding of relational database concepts and experience working in a big data environment (Hadoop / Cornerstone) preferred
IT Data management experience
Previous work experience in various IT disciplines such as Infrastructure, software development, data management or data analytics
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.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to create impactful relationships with key stakeholders
Excellent relationship building, presentation and collaboration skills.
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.
Display thought leadership, drive process, and support work/life balance initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications
Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework, have an Agile mindset, and can embrace new opportunities and adapt easily to change
SaFe Agile certified is a plus
Project Management Professional (PMP) certified is a plus
SQL and data analysis experience
Testing management and execution experience is a plus
Foundational data architecture principles and data management experience
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) is a plus

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

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Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.