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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 Global Risk & Compliance Organization (GRC) is an independent risk management function, led by the Chief Risk Officer, with the mission of ensuring that American Express operates in a safe, sound, and fully compliant manner with all regulatory expectations. GRC establishes and maintains the enterprise risk management framework, conducts independent risk assessments, and monitors key risks across the company.

Our colleagues in GRC are passionate about building a strong culture of risk awareness, accountability, and regulatory readiness—driving the company’s growth while safeguarding its reputation and operations.

The Compliance Risk Management Governance team develops, oversees, and strengthens the Compliance Risk Management framework to ensure governance structures, policies, and procedures are robust, effective, and aligned with regulatory requirements and best practices. The Audit & Regulatory Engagement team manages internal and external exams and audits, ensures timely resolution of findings, educates stakeholders with an examiner mindset, and continuously enhances the efficiency of compliance risk management processes.

We are seeking a Project Coordinator to serve as the Guardrail point person, responsible for driving program coordination, tracking progress, and ensuring strategic alignment across compliance initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement a program management framework to coordinate workstreams, track activities, and monitor milestones.

• Build and maintain a 3-year compliance roadmap, prioritizing year-one deliverables with urgency and precision.

• Partner closely with stakeholders across business units, products, and processes to ensure alignment.

• Monitor and report on progress, risks, and KPIs through executive-ready dashboards and presentations.

• Facilitate clear communication between project teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

• Proactively flag and escalate scope changes, resource needs, and financial impacts to senior leadership.

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for project success.

• Contribute to a positive, collaborative culture with a solutions-oriented mindset.

Qualifications

• Strong project management skills with proven ability to track, prioritize, and execute across complex initiatives.

• Skilled at balancing attention to detail with big-picture thinking.

• Excellent relationship-building and influencing skills, with a history of collaborating effectively across functions and senior leadership.

• Exceptional communication skills, including experience creating executive-level presentations and synthesizing complex information clearly.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a matrixed environment.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams and navigating ambiguity with resilience.

• Strong problem-solving mindset with enthusiasm for tackling challenges.

• 3 years of project management experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, or related field required.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $90,000.00 to $165,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job: Compliance

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25015589