Team Assistant

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and lets lead the way together.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead independent compliance testing/compliance operations in partnership with the Market Compliance Officers to detect and identify emerging regulatory risks across different areas of law – Anti-Money Laundering, Privacy, Anti-Corruption and Consumer Protection and Fairness.
• Perform compliance operation activities supporting the Market Compliance Officers for International market like overseeing and/executing the market communication, anti-corruption due diligence activities, etc.
• PRSA Development/SOX control Development: Identify testing requirements at the process level through their risk assessment process and incorporate these testing requirements as part of the PRSA program.
• Stakeholder management by leading alignment calls with senior leadership across different business units and obtain concurrence.
• Comprehensive compliance report writing skills that articulate the risks tested and issues identified within the final compliance report to be issued to the enterprise.
• Identify automation opportunities within compliance testing to expand the risk identification methodology and analysis on the compliance requirements.
• Work with Data Compliance & analytics team for automation of compliance testing
• Comprehensive risk assessment and analytical thinking on the compliance requirements to finalize the annual compliance testing plan.
• Performing PEP reviews - Decision potential matches at the time of onboarding new accounts. Also, perform Enhanced Due Diligence on confirmed PEP’s at periodic intervals for existing customers.
• Performing Sanctions reviews - Decision potential matches at the time of onboarding (Front End Screening) and during the lifecycle of the account (Back End Screening).

Qualification & Skill Set Required:

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience within the Big Four or in a bank/financial institution background. The ideal candidate should be someone from a mix of Big 4 audit background and/ internal audit experience/SOX testing/PRSA Testing in a bank/financial institution.
• MBA, Chartered Accounts, Law Graduates, CPA, ACAMS, MBA and individuals with certifications in audit would be preferred.
• Ability to work independently from understanding the regulation, designing the test script, execution of fieldwork testing, communication of findings to business and to reporting gaps.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills including the ability to conceptualize and break down complex issues into actionable tasks.
• High degree of organization, individual initiative, results and solution oriented, and personal accountability and resiliency.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills in English.
• Prefer language expertise in a foreign language (Mandarin and/or French)

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.