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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.

Our industry is rapidly evolving, and we need courageous, quick thinkers who can shape the strategic decisions that lead our business forward. Whether it’s negotiating with some of our largest global partners or creating next year’s financial plan, you can influence both our day-to-day P&L and the future direction of the company. As part of the team, you can have the opportunity to learn and use the latest data tools and technologies and explore a range of roles to grow your career. Find your place in finance on #TeamAmex.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Our industry is rapidly evolving, and we need courageous, quick thinkers who can shape the strategic decisions that lead our business forward. Whether it’s negotiating with some of our largest global partners or creating next year’s financial plan, you can influence both our day-to-day P&L and the future direction of the company. As part of the team, you can have the opportunity to learn and use the latest data tools and technologies and explore a range of roles to grow your career. Find your place in finance on #TeamAmex.

As part of the Finance Data Governance (FDG) team within Corporate Controllership, this role is responsible for bringing and managing data under governance for Finance. FDG team is leading the effort of defining the future roadmap for data governance within Finance and ensuring that trusted information is used for critical processes,

decision making, and accounting across various finance processes.

As a FDG Manager, you will support the development and implementation of solutions in accordance with the Enterprise Data Governance policy and framework. You will partner closely with Finance

Technology Transformation, Enterprise Data Governance, Controllership, Risk, and other teams to drive data governance and data quality within Finance.

The FDG Manager is a collaborator, a well-organized, action-oriented individual with exceptional leadership and time management skills, confident in presenting, facilitating, and building a network of strong relationships across our organization.

• Finance Data Governance in compliance with the Enterprise Data Governance Policy ensuring the appropriate accountability model and processes for data asset management, metadata management, data quality, and issue resolution.

• Participate in all aspects of Data Governance including data activation steps, compliance withdata standards and privacy regulations.

• Support strategic improvements to data assessment process and making necessary enhancements to data analytical and data quality tools.

• Lead root-cause-analysis of data quality issues and support in remediation of Audit and Regulatory feedback.

• Support development, validation, and maintenance of business glossary, data integration, data lineage, and data management activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years of work experience in Banking/Financial Services.

• Experience of Finance, Banking, or similar industries is a strong plus.

• Technical and data analysis skills with prior experience with SQL.

• Knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets is strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated understanding of metadata practices such as data lineage, data dictionaries, business glossaries, Data Quality rules, source system inventories, etc.

• Demonstrated working knowledge of Agile methodology and delivery concepts or other project management methodologies including SDLC.

• Strong relationship skills and communication is essential as the role require partnering with multiple groups e.g., Business process owners, Technologies, and Enterprise Data Governance.

• Self-motivated and proactive, ability to manage multiple assignments and projects concurrently within tight deadlines.

• Ability to be flexible, prioritize multiple demands, and effectively manage in a matrix organization.

• Experience of a wide range of architectures/platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in finance/accounting is preferred.

• Prior experience of data governance, metadata, and data lineage tools such as, Collibra, MANTA is strongly preferred.

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: Finance

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Other Locations: US-Arizona-Phoenix, US-Arizona

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25009962