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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 let's lead the way together.

How we serve our customers is constantly evolving and is a challenge we gladly accept. Whether you’re finding new ways to prevent identity fraud or enabling customers to start a new business, you can work with one of the most valuable data sets in the world to identify insights and actions that can have a meaningful impact on our customers and our business. And, with opportunities to learn from leaders who have defined the course of our industry, you can grow your career and define your own path. Find your place in risk and analytics on #TeamAmex.

The Global Risk & Compliance Organization (“GRC”) independently oversees the company’s risk-taking and risk management activities, including the comprehensive identification, management, and mitigation of risks within the Company’s risk appetite. GRC ensures the company operates in a safe, sound and fully compliant manner within all applicable regulatory expectations. We create and maintain the overall risk management framework while ensuring legal and regulatory compliance.

We are passionate about our commitment to drive the company’s goals of growth and progress by creating a culture of awareness and proactivity around regulatory matters, and by partnering closely with business units across the enterprise to ensure we deliver maximum value to our shareholders and our customers efficiently and effectively.

We are seeking a highly experienced VP, Enterprise Third Party Risk Management, to join our Enterprise Risk Management and Risk Oversight (ERM&RO) function within GRC. You will serve as a subject matter expert, providing guidance and independent oversight to American Express’s third-party management processes. The VP will be focused on managing the risks associated with Third Party Risk across American Express globally and be responsible for owning and executing on the overall risk management and governance framework for Third Party Risk Management at the Company. The incumbent will have significant exposure to senior leadership across risk and business teams.

Our culture in Global Risk & Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class. The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) team, within the Global Risk and Compliance organization and led by the Chief Risk Officer, establishes and maintains the Company’s overall risk management and governance framework. The team also ensures that risk management activities are conducted in a manner compliant with regulatory requirements and expectations. The team aggregates and reports on key risk management and oversight activities to the relevant management and Board risk committees.

Essential Job Functions:

• Design and implement the Third-Party risk governance framework, including the development of a specialized risk team, risk policy, and risk capabilities to identify, measure, manage, monitor, control, and report risks related to Affiliate and Non-Affiliate Third Party Risk Management.

• Lead and develop a team of risk professionals, fostering a culture of excellence, imagination, and continuous learning. Attract, lead, and nurture colleagues towards a fun-filled and high energy workplace.

• Leverage the Third-Party risk governance frameworks to conduct risk assessments at an aggregate and granular level, as necessary, across the Third Party lifecycle.

• Identify risks presented over the company’s Third-Party landscape, oversee controls in line with American Express’s risk and control framework. Establish guidance and requirements for minimum recommended controls.

• Ensure robust Board and management reporting on key risk metrics (Key Control Indicators, Key Risk Indicators and Key Performance Indicators) towards early identification of key Third Party risks. Maintain monitoring and testing processes to continuously evaluate risks.

• Collaborate with senior leadership, across Legal, Global Supplier Management and Business Unit leaders to define and report on the organization’s risk appetite for Third Party Risk and monitor adherence to established thresholds. Provide periodic updates with regulators.

• Leverage external perspectives, including external events, relevant laws, regulations, and guidance to refine and enhance the Third-Party risk management program.

• Collaborate with Legal, and other key partners, to develop and implement enterprise-wide training modules around Third Party risks.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of ten years of experience in risk management, across lines of defense, within the banking/financial services industry including policy & procedure development, risk appetite, risk control self-assessment and testing, and issue management.

• Multiple years of experience in the development and implementation of risk governance frameworks. Strong preference for proven expertise in the area Third Party Risk Management at large banks.

• Experience in successfully developing and implementing a Third-Party risk management framework and strategies at large banks.

• Experience in leveraging data, analytics to develop inventories, review metadata, assess risk and identify issues.

• Knowledgeable of relevant laws and regulations applicable to banking and financial services.

• Ability to bring the right balance of big picture thinking and intellectual curiosity.

• Applies a learning mindset to courageously and patiently evaluate multiple perspectives to reach a conclusion.

• Experienced leader with a track record of effectively building, nurturing, and managing risk management teams.

• Ability to collaboratively deliver outcomes and results in a volatile, unstructured, challenging, and ambiguous environment.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills to influence cross-functional teams and demonstrate the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at the executive level.

Candidates must reside in the following states: Ohio, North Carolina, New York, Utah, or Arizona.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions

Qualifications

Salary Range: $185,000.00 to $260,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) 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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Job: Executive

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: United States

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25002564