Manager - Risk Management

Description - External

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.

Function Description:

Responsibilities:

1. The position will have responsibility to lead development & ongoing delivery of Performance Reporting & Incentive Calculation for GMNS Small Merchant. This role places a focus on ability to think strategically, to synthesize complex data & deliver relevant & insightful reporting to the Business user.
   
2. Deliver comprehensive performance reporting and Insights to help the leadership team and individuals evaluate and drive business performance.
   
3. Partner with functional leaders, Strategic Business Partners and senior leaders to remove friction points, ensure data integrity for reporting and insights to fulfill business requirements and enable actions.
   
4. Understand complex operational systems and business intelligence tools, sales platforms for developing efficient, insightful products and offerings for customers
   
5. Devise process improvement tools and methodologies that will ensure detailed delivery exceeding customer expectations.
   
6. Evolve reporting to meet key business priorities, engage early on with customers, gain agreement for implementing proposed solutions.
   
7. Leverage standard processes internally and bring outside-in perspective to deliver best of breed reporting and insights
   

Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):

1. Strong analytical skills and an innovative approach to solving both practical and theoretical problems and a tremendous will to win
   
2. Demonstrated ability to provide insight and accurate judgment in addressing and resolving business challenges and opportunities
   
3. Ability to interpret insights to derive strong requirements and prioritization based on data.
   
4. Strong people relationship building, management and influencing skills
   
5. Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
   
6. Engage with key customers to drive initiatives to enhance sales experience.
   
7. Automate and standardize reporting process.
   

Leadership Outcomes:

1. Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.
   
2. Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings
   
3. Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity
   
4. Lead with a digital approach and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every da
   

Past Experience

1. 8-10 years relevant experience with excellent knowledge Reporting and Visualization tools
   
2. Preferred: Experience in Python and Hive & Tableau,
   

Academic Background

1.      Master’s degree in Economics/ Statistics / Operations research

Skills/Capabilities

1.      Understanding of merchant business process.

2.      Analytics & reporting domain experience

Technical

1.      Analytics & Insights

2.      Python, SAS, R, SQL

3.      Basic Statistical Knowledge: Hive/ML techniques

4.      Advanced data manipulation & automation skills

5.      Data visualization

6.      Exposure to Big data environment & tools

Preferred:

Data Analytics , Automation experience

Platforms

1.      Big Data Platforms: Cornerstone/Lumi

2.      Visualization Platforms: VBA, Tableau

3.      Advanced MS Office Suites (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access)

4.      Amex Platform Knowledge: CS/ CODL

Preferred:

1.      Dashboard Creation

2.      Sales Platforms: SFDC

Behavioral

1.      Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

2.      Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective

3.      Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential

4.      Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage

• 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