American Express—Financial Analyst

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Description: Finance is a collaborative team, playing a key role in advising all areas of the business. We have a strategic seat at the table and our unique insights are valued in a highly competitive marketplace and increasingly complex global regulatory environment. This team collaborates globally to deliver expert accounting, reporting & advisory services, and financial risk control & governance, while supporting business growth & protecting shareholder value. Requirements: Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven): Business Outcomes: Own & maintain financial/data integrity while managing end-to-end global accounting processes - Stay relevant to the business/functional requirements - Pro-actively develop meaningful data insights/trends to enable finance decision support to our customer’s/business partners for more effective planning & forecasting activities. - Understand & leverage intelligent automation technologies to generate use cases within the team & create opportunities to support the automation team to get that implemented . - Ensure first pass yield - Leadership Outcomes: Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders. - Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings - Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity - Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day Skills/Capabilities: Functional: - Strong understanding of end-to-end AR/AP process flow, accounting & reconciliation - Basic understanding of reporting - Ability to connect accounting & reporting - Understanding of financial consolidation process - Understanding of operational, SOX & other related control framework compliance - Ability to research & embed relevant best practices Technical: Awareness of US GAAP/Local GAAP/IFRS (Accounting knowledge) - Analytical skills with the ability to undertake cause effect analysis - Knowledge of financial systems Preferred - Basic understanding & appreciation of automation capabilities - Understanding of business products Platforms: Advanced MS office suits such as Excel, Word, Power point Preferred: Ability to use analytical tools for financial systems such as Oracle, IRIS, OBIEE, Essbase, Hyperion Financial Reporting (HFR), etc. Academic Background: Graduate / Post-Graduate in Commerce with 1-2 years of relevant experience Past Experience: 1-2 years of past experience in financial accounting domain with knowledge of Oracle/ERP, card business model. - Strong English Language skills (both written and verbal) Responsibilities: Responsible for managing monthly accounting for various legal entities ensuring monthly journal entry (MJE) protocol to meet compliance, completeness & accuracy standards. - -Responsible for compliance with internal service level agreements (SLA), guidelines and accounting policies and regulatory requirements of the process - -Deploy internal accounting & external reporting implications of new & amended accounting standards - -Support / participate in standardization, automation and continuous improvement initiatives as well as other business partner initiatives - -Maintain high accuracy and productivity standards - -Awareness of the AXP Legal and alternate hierarchies, accounting close governance & consolidations - -Maintain close contact with customer / business partners and other interface groups to ensure a smooth service delivery - -Stakeholder relationship management - -Ensure controls & compliance with prevailing policies & procedures such as SOX, Process Risk Self Assessment (PRSA), etc. - -Ensure that all deadlines are continually met and adequate controls are maintained over the processes to ensure integrity of the information - -Ability to work across multiple time zones - -Leading accounting & reporting financial processes as per the aligned SLA’s for creation of complete & accurate financial statements