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American Express’ Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) team is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, and Anti-Corruption compliance functions. This team has global responsibility for identifying, investigating, and reporting suspicious activity, including money laundering and terrorist financing, and provides broad analytical and operational support for the company’s enterprise-wide AML function. GFCC is part of the broader Global Risk & Compliance organization. 

The GFCC Program Management Office facilitates alignment across GFCC teams in managing processes and controls and reporting and metrics for GFCC.  Responsibilities include managing the development of processes and controls to ensure efficiency and sustainability; management and oversight of formal and internal management reporting, metrics, and identification of key risk indicators; and management and execution of the centralized GFCC risk assessment process for the customer risk rating and money laundering assessment.

Responsibilities:

The GFCC Compliance and Control Team sits within the GFCC Program Management Office and is responsible for developing and supporting GFCC’s Control Environment. Responsibilities in this role will include a combination of the following:

• Reviewing legal requirements and determining applicability to GFCC processes

• Mapping GFCC owned controls to applicable legal requirements

• Drafting new controls and updating existing controls as legal requirements and processes change

• Maintaining the Compliance Risk Assessment from a GFCC perspective

• Preparing reporting materials around the Enterprise Wide AML, Sanctions and Anti-Corruption Control Environment

• Maintaining ownership over certain GFCC Process Risk Self Assessments (PRSAs) which includes having an complete understanding of each end-to-end process and conducting annual refreshes for each

• Conducting control gap analysis for various GFCC owned processes

• Assisting with audit and regulatory exam requests

• Assisting with the control mapping of GFCC controls to new products as part of the New Product Approval process.

• Support ad hod projects as needed.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate will have the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with both GFCC leadership and operational excellence and business partners; ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously that involve collaboration among multiple teams; a keen attention to detail; strong analytical and technical aptitude; strong communication and a willingness to be a deadline-driven team player. Excellent writing and editing skills and an understanding of the AML, Sanctions and Anti-Corruption legal landscape is required.

• A minimum of two years of experience in AML compliance, general compliance, or in the broader financial industry;

• A minimum of two years of experience in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance, law enforcement, and/or the credit card industry;

• Excellent writing skills;

• Extremely organized and detail oriented with a sense of follow through and accountability;

• Motivated team player and creative self-starter with sharp problem-solving skills;

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with the development, maintenance and testing of controls

• Law degree preferred

Salary Range: $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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