American Express—Financial Analyst

Job description

Description: The Balance Sheet Assurance Team drives financial integrity across the AXP balance sheet by delivering enterprise-wide reconciliation, risk governance, audit oversight and a strong risk and regulatory compliance framework. The team manages AXP and Segment Balance Sheet analysis and reporting, provides enterprise-wide reconciliation reporting and enhances visibility into reconciliation status, ageing, open items and risk exposure. It also governs enterprise reconciliation procedures to drive consistent execution and accountability, while providing independent review and assurance over AXP and Segment Balance Sheet reconciliations. Requirements: - Should be a CA/ Graduate with 2-4 years of relevant work experience. - Well-developed analytical skills, ability to understand the linkages to processes. - Demonstrated Accounting expertise. - Ability to think innovatively and to pursue ideas with conviction. - Excellent team player with strong Inter-Personal skills and communication skills – both written and spoken. - The Incumbent should be Assertive, should be able to influence & corroborate without direct authority. - A self-starter with ability to operate under ambiguous circumstances. - Must have good Communication and Interpersonal skills and be able to interact with senior leadership, with Finance, multiple employee levels /Business Partners/Customers etc., - Demonstrate leadership skills needed to create, develop, train, motivate and communicate with diverse work force. - Must have strong, proven People Management skills. handling cross functional and cross-cultural teams. Responsibilities: - Responsible for Review, Analysis and Reporting of AXP and Segment Balance Sheet. - Sustain enterprise-wide Balance Sheet health while remaining focused on efficiency and sustaining financial integrity for the company including ensuring timely research & clearance of BS reconciling items - Lead the reconciliation review calls with market and other key stakeholders, including performing root cause analysis for unreconciled accounts, persistent issues and working on the permanent fixes wherever necessary. - Collaborate with key stakeholders - Account Owners, Regulators and Entity/Segment Controllers - Pursue continuous improvement in execution, lead intelligent automation and monitor compliance with management policies. - Responsible for improving control environment by ensuring satisfactory audit experience and enhancing internal controls - Ensure controls & compliance with prevailing policies & procedures such as SOX, Process Risk Self-Assessment and support Statutory/Internal audits - Continuously challenge the Status Quo and seek opportunity for redesign/automate - Lead team of accounting professionals, coaching them on tactical and strategic execution, as well as professional leadership and development