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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 objective of ensuring that American Express operates in a safe, sound, and fully compliant manner with all applicable regulatory expectations. GRC creates and maintains the overall risk management framework, performs independent risk management assessments, and monitors applicable risks. GRC colleagues are passionate about our commitment to drive the Company’s goals of growth and progress by creating a culture of risk awareness and proactivity around regulatory matters.

The Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) Transaction Monitoring Rule Program Oversight (TMRPO) team is responsible for the oversight of the enterprise-wide anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) transaction monitoring program at American Express. The program includes assessing, designing, and implementing AML and CTF detection strategies across all American Express products and services. These strategies ultimately generate alerts which are investigated by the Global Financial Crimes Investigation Unit (GFCSU) as part of the Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) process.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conduct assessments of American Express’s diverse products and services for vulnerabilities of potential criminal misuse, identifying behaviors to be identified by transaction monitoring strategies

• Evaluate and perform analyses on complex data sets to identify transactional and behavioral patterns indicative of potentially suspicious activity

• Develop new strategies to identify potentially suspicious or high-risk activity

• Research high risk criminal behaviors (such as human trafficking and narcotics smuggling)

• Lead reviews of implemented transaction monitoring rules and related automated processes, identifying enhancements to performance, efficiency, and effectiveness

• Partner with the GFCSU, Financial Crimes and Center of Excellence (FC CoE) and other relevant teams to ensure projects obtain cross-team alignment on release readiness

• Perform other related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of three years professional experience, with at least one year in any of the following: BSA-AML compliance, law enforcement, general compliance, audit, complex investigations or legal

• Demonstrated analytical, statistical, and/or quantitative skills

• Strong communication, writing, and editing skills, a keen attention to detail, and the ability to translate data insights into actionable solutions

• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

• Investigative mindset, research-oriented approach, large appetite for knowledge and learning

• The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and a willingness to be a deadline-driven team player in a dynamic working environment

• An understanding of AML/CTF concepts and associated criminal typologies, preferred (or a willingness to learn)

• Self-starter who can work independently while meeting strict regulatory deadlines

• Experience using SQL, preferred (or a willingness and ability to learn)

• An understanding of AML/CTF concepts and associated criminal typologies, preferred (or a willingness to learn)

• CAMS certified or equivalent preferred

• Experience in risk assessments or vulnerability analysis

Qualifications

Salary Range: $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 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-Arizona-Phoenix

Other Locations: US-Utah-Sandy, US-Florida-Sunrise

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25017208