American Express - Senior Financial Analyst - Business Planning & Analysis

About the Team:

- Its an exciting opportunity to be part of India Business LFO team and to enhance knowledge about the local India business and will support ICS business.

- The candidate will play a key role in Financial Reporting & Analysis, Planning and forecasting activities and provide consultative finance support in the decision making process for the International Consumer Services (ICS) Business in India.

- The successful candidate will actively engage in cost benefit analysis (CBAs) , analyzing business performance and support decisions by engaging with the Business Partners.

About the role:

The candidate will also contribute to ongoing Enterprise wide market initiatives such as Project Fusion including cost tracking and keep an eye on any changes in underlying statement of records and downstream impacts on Finance processes pre and post Fusion go live, Regular and timely Project Cost monitoring and sharing regular updates on actuals costs vs plan and evaluating Cost Benefits Analysis and P&L impacts due to changes in product line strategies.

Minimum Qualifications:

- CA/ MBA (Finance) with 3-5 years of experience OR Postgraduate in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics or a related field from a premier institute with 3-5 years of experience.

- Strong understanding of card business economics, P&L, regulatory requirements etc.

- Solid ability to adopt a broad perspective and link business strategies to specific initiatives.

- Understanding of business products

- Working knowledge of statistical modeling & data science

- Knowledge of statistical software (SAS, SQL, Machine Learning) and manipulating large and complex data sets; experience with cornerstone preferred