About this role
Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) is an organization within Global Risk & Compliance (GRC) and is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, and Anti-Corruption compliance functions. This team has global responsibility for identifying, investigating, and reporting suspicious activity, including money laundering and terrorist financing, and provides broad analytical and operational support for the company’s enterprise-wide GFCC control framework.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Experience within Financial Crimes Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, Anti-Corruption, or broader risk and compliance domains.
- Prior experience in testing, quality assurance, business readiness, transformation, project management, product, or technology delivery activities in operational and/or risk management environments.
- Demonstrated people leadership experience, with a history of building, coaching, and developing colleagues and effectively leading through change in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
- Experience with agile methodologies, product lifecycle management, and associated program and project management governance tools (e.g., 3iB, JIRA, BRDs, PRDs, User Stories).
- Demonstrated experience managing testing demand, resource capacity, prioritization, and delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives, with the ability to identify dependencies and quality risks and drive timely resolution.
- Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to identify opportunities and drive results with a high degree of independence.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to interact and obtain buy-in from senior leaders across multiple lines of defense including technology and product counterparts.
- Ability to maintain a positive attitude in the face of challenges.
- 3+ years of relevant work experience.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.