American Express - ERP Expert - SDL - Financial Accounting & Close Team

- Formulate & drive general ledger controls & governance through Data Mining & General Ledger activity analytics

- Ensuring compliance with agreed SLA, internal guidelines, accounting policies/ protocols and regulations that are applicable from time to time ( AXP internal, USGAAP)

- Managing internal and external audits and other submissions to ensure regulatory/ tax compliances

- Lead and participate in process standardization, automation, consolidation and continuous improvement initiatives including business partner and customer initiatives

Critical Factors to Success:

- This is a people leadership position. The incumbent should have prior experience of leading a team of at least 10-15 people and should be able to take responsibility for driving and managing a high level of Employee Motivation and Engagement

- Incumbent should also have a prior experience of functional design of Oracle & similar BI tools

- Techno-Functional qualification preferred, prior experience of ERP related Data Mining & Analytics

- Engineering graduates with MBA preferred

- Techno Finance professional with at-least 6 to 8 years of experience or B. Com/ B Tech with minimum 7+ years of experience

- Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks to meet tight deadlines

- High level of professional maturity to respond quickly to all issues/queries

- Proven ability to drive & manage change - demonstrated experience for implementing initiatives towards automation/ standardization of processes

- Capability to think - Outside The Box- to offer alternate perspectives and solutions to increase productivity and significantly reduce cost of operations

- High Proficiency In MS Office (Excel, Word and Power Point) Is a Requirement

- Well-Developed Analytical Skills, Ability to Understand End To End Linkages across Processes

- Oracle GL

- OBIEE

- Essbase/HFM/OFSAA

Job type- Permanent

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