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 let's lead the way together.

The Global Risk & Compliance Organization (“GRC”) is an independent risk management function, led by the Chief Risk Officer, with the objective of ensuring that American Express operates in a safe, sound and fully compliant manner within all applicable regulatory expectations. GRC creates and maintain the overall risk management framework, performs independent risk management assessment, and monitor risks.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Colleagues at GRC are passionate about our commitment to drive the Company’s goals of growth and progress by creating a culture of risk awareness and proactivity around regulatory matters. By partnering closely with business units across the enterprise, we help deliver maximum value to our shareholders and our customers efficiently and effectively through effective risk management and oversight activities.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing regulatory compliance oversight and guidance to the ICS and GMS business teams,  and be the local point of contact for the Anti-Corruption program.

Responsibilities:

• Development and maintenance of an effective compliance program, consistent with local market legal requirements and American Express Compliance programs and policies within the business units mainly to: Commercial and Merchant Business

• Participate in review and implementation of Business Conduct program to ensure adherence with regulatory and policy requirements to ICS, GCG and GMS 
• Support the Anti-Corruption program in Mexico

• Liaise as required with the relevant stakeholders

• Review communications, trainings, Q&A´s, etc submitted by the stakeholders through IMH, FRC and LAC Content Governance

• Participate in review the Compliance Pillar of AEMP54
• Additional responsibilities based on team needs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong effective communication, influencing and negotiating skills

• 100% fluent English & Spanish speaker (written and verbal)

• Solid analytical, wide enterprise thinking and problem-solving skills are required.

• Team player and strong collaborator

• Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to work within a complex matrix environment.

• Excellent communication & relationship skills.

• Professional maturity and confidence in expressing a point of view with management.

• Ability to effectively influence various levels of management in Lines of Business and Staff Groups

• Professional maturity and confidence in expressing a point of view with management.

• Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize work in a highly deadline-intensive environment is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the applicable Regulation in Mexico

• Knowledge or experience of the following LOB/processes: ICS and Merchants

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

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