American Express - Product Owner - Finance System Analyst

Product Owner - Finance System Analyst

Purpose of the role:

As part of a world-class Controllership group, the C&FRC organization is responsible for managing end to end credit and fraud process from reserve adequacy assessment through to the external and regulatory reporting.

This role will support tech development of various features for credit reserving, disclosures and management reporting as a Business Specialist and will form a part of the Product Owner (PO) Group within the C&FRC organization.

Responsibilities:

- Communicate with multiple stakeholders across the organization to create and communicate the vision, value and priorities of the product and collaborate closely and constantly with the development team and broader product owner team on the delivery of product features.

- Understand the needs of the business / users with respect to the product/features and decide, in consultation with, leadership on feature and functionalities critical to the business.

- Support user acceptance testing, parallel run testing, and any other testing required to ensure the build meets the requirements authored including development and execution of test cases, and documentation of results.

Past Experience:

- 3 plus years of project work experience or accounting and reporting experience

- Experience with implementing / supporting large scale changes

- Degree in Accounting / Finance / MBA/ BTech

- Experience in areas like project management, process governance, control & compliance or accounting and reporting is required.

- Testing management and execution experience is a plus.

- Agile trained is a plus.

- In addition to above, experience with credit reserves and portfolio analysis, financial modeling and accounting is a plus.

- Experience with financial reporting requirements and processes.