Senior Manager - Risk Management

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Positions in Risk Management lead the development of credit, operational, enterprise, and fraud policies designed to profitably grow the portfolio, while ensuring excellent customer experience. These policies utilize mathematical models and other techniques to understand and predict customer behavior. At the manager level, the employee does not have a people leadership role but is often viewed as an emerging expert in the field. Focuses on resolution of complex problems. Conducts analyses, recommends changes to policies, and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization.

This position is part of Credit and Fraud Risk Organization, focused on Commercial New Accounts Underwriting. The role brings an exciting opportunity to innovatively define Client and Card Member Onboarding experience while reducing the early tenure credit losses for Middle to Large and Global Clients. The role is highly visible and will require strong collaboration across a variety of functions, including but not limited to Risk, Technology, Decision Science, Product, Marketing, Sales etc to develop best in class strategies and capabilities to support our customers  

Specific responsibilities include:

• Own end to end capability roadmap for transformation of existing Client acquisition journeys
• Conduct data analysis for quantitatively designing profitable Client/Card Member acquisition frameworks and strategies with a keen focus on portfolio growth
•   Manage data strategy, data contribution policy, and relationships with strategic third-party data providers
• Identify, evaluate, and integrate new data sources and capabilities into decision-making
• Lead with an external focus, track developments in the marketplace to understand industry best practices
• Develop and continuously enhance policies, processes, and controls for mitigating credit risk exposure and preventing fraud
• Continuously monitor new account performance and react quickly to potential/emerging issues
• Collaborate with colleagues across the enterprise to leverage partnerships, data, and services to drive innovative solutions to business challenges
• Maintain an effective control environment and respond to operational breakdowns with discipline
• Effectively communicate strategies to a broad spectrum of audience including senior leadership
• Drive operational excellence and ensure full compliance with regulatory requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (e.g., MS, PhD, or MBA) in a quantitative field such as Econometrics, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering, or Computer Science
• Blend of analytical skills, process expertise, project management, and relationship-building skills
• Ability to handle large datasets using SAS, SQL, R, Python or another similar programming language
• Thought leadership and solution-oriented mindset
• Ability to think strategically and apply both quantitative methods and business insights to drive results
• Ability to build strong relationships in a cross-functional environment
• Clear, effective written and oral communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree is preferred but not required given a suitable combination of formal education and work experience
• Credit/Fraud risk management experience and understanding of credit lifecycle is preferred

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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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