Lead Analyst

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The position will have responsibility for development & ongoing delivery of Reporting & Insights Suite for Benefits & Membership Rewards to support BD & Partnerships teams of US Consumer, US Commercial, ICS markets. This role demands expertise in data-driven decision-making, and strategic analytics. It's an exciting chance to delve into embedded card benefits and leverage data to achieve business goals. The candidate will create actionable, data-driven reporting products and analysis to enable business growth, collaborating closely with US Consumer, US SBS, Loyalty Platforms, Marketing, Finance, and other partners. A strong background in data analytics and exceptional quantitative and problem-solving skills are essential. The successful candidate will be required to :
 

• Independently lead and deliver performance reporting Benefits/MR program to support US Consumer stakeholders to evaluate and drive business performance
  
• Stakeholder management: Partner with functional leaders, business partners and senior leaders to remove friction points, ensure data integrity for reporting and insights to fulfill business requirements and enable actions. Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  
• Lead strategic initiatives to support leadership/business teams enabling SABE/business priorities
  
• Lead effort to automate and standardize reporting processes to increase efficiency and accuracy that will ensure flawless delivery exceeding customer expectations
  
• Thoroughly understand Membership Rewards & Benefits performance drivers and provide functional/technical guidance to members in the team
  
• Understand complex reporting requirements in line with the contract construct aligned between AMEX and Merchant Partners and develop new dashboards/reports using Amex platforms, perform testing, data validation, documentation and training to help with adoption of tools
  
• Evolve reporting to meet key business priorities, engage early on with stakeholders, gain buy in for implementing proposed solutions
  
• Conduct deep dives to uncover data trends, insights and recommend business solutions reporting
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Past Experience : Fresher/1-2 Years of relevant Analytics experience
  
• Strong Programming skills - SQL, BigQuery, Python, Automation
  
• Expertise in Excel
  
• Great Storytelling 
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Handson Visualization expertise - PowerBI, Tableau
  
• Knowledge of conversational BI through GenAI
  
• Web Based dashboard creation
  

• 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