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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.

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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 Manager - AML Risk will manage several responsibilities and play a crucial role in ensuring GFCC achieves its strategic priorities efficiently and effectively within our federated financial crimes model by collaborating with business partners and GFCC colleagues to assess and mitigate money laundering risks associated with products issued by American Express. They will provide oversight and linkage between a variety of GFCC work efforts across various stakeholders. The Manager will support risk assessment efforts, oversight of transaction monitoring and customer risk rating processes, data analysis and assessments, and issue management among other things.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The Manager - AML Risk will provide oversight of U.S. market products and services issued by TRS and AENB. The qualified candidate will support enhancements to the BSA/AML Program and be part of a team responsible for the assessment of AML risk across multiple products, understanding how the products are designed and used by customer to identify controls necessary to mitigate those risks. The individual will also be responsible for providing expert AML advisory to the relevant business lines, working closely with both Line of Business Compliance Officers and Product teams, as needed.

• Create process flows for all relevant transaction types and identify potential risks to the AML program.

• Partner with process owners and Compliance colleagues to identify and develop controls to mitigate AML risks.

• Provide oversight of the transaction monitoring and customer risk rating processes

• Support and provide input on the money laundering, sanctions, and anti-corruption risk assessments to ensure risks are properly assessed and documented

• Monitor and track risk events and corrective actions that impact GFCC and oversee the process for sharing the details with GFCC leadership

• Collaborate with team members to support the maintenance of a complete inventory of products, services, and features overseen by the U.S. AML team.

• Support the maintenance of a comprehensive AML risk taxonomy including inherent risks and mitigating controls

• Develop and maintain targeted risk assessments to identify exposure to FinCEN’s national strategic AML priorities

• Monitor and oversee post-implementation control monitoring for new U.S. products to ensure control effectiveness

• Support management of strategic projects related to the BSA/AML Program

• Support the BSA/AML Program’s involvement in the financial crimes’ component of the new product approval process

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree or equivalent experience

• Minimum of five years professional experience, with at least three years in any of the following: BSA-AML compliance, law enforcement, general compliance, audit, risk assessment, or project management.

• Familiarity with the assessment of inherent product risks and regulatory requirements (BSA/AML experience preferred)

• Keen attention to detail in analysis and documentation

• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience evaluating control environments and conducting gap assessments

• Effective communication and excellent writing skills

• Ability to manage multiple tasks, take on additional responsibilities, and prioritize work in a deadline-intensive environment

• Experience with documentation of complex processes and controls

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Strong skills with Microsoft Office products including Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications :

• CAMS Certification a plus

Qualifications

Salary Range: $90,000.00 to $165,000.00 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 .

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.

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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Job: Compliance

Primary Location: US-Utah-Sandy

Other Locations: US-Arizona-Phoenix, US-Florida-Sunrise

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24020115