American Express - Team Leader - Risk & Compliance

Incumbent will be responsible to strategize and drive improvement opportunities in control review standards for payment.

Successful candidate will be responsible to driving efficiencies and standardization for controls within payment process. He will lead discussions with various risk team, auditors, AXP business users to enable minimization of risk of third party onboarding, duplicate / incorrect payments.

Responsibilities:

- Redefine structure for procurement & payment review process in line with Amex policies and procedures

- Define strategy driving efficiency for payments processes

- Ensure completeness and comprehensiveness of audit plans

- Interact with business partners to identify gaps in process and fix them proactively

- Review legacy payments data to identify opportunities to improve controls around payments/recovery

- Lead trainings with business partners

- Strategize development of data quality standards to drive consistency

- Lead review of root cause analysis of risk events as an input to the development of preventive controls and generate improve controls

- Globalize learnings across Global Payments team to improve quality /efficiency of reviews and timely remediation of issues

Qualifications:

1 Knowledge of Procurement businesses, products and systems

2. Expert knowledge of Payments processes, systems and linked controls

3. Quick learner and self starter and strong willingness to learn and embrace new things

4. Attention to detail and result oriented