Company: American Express
Sr Financial Analyst Job

Responsibilities:

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES
This position will be a member of the Corporate Technical Advisory Group with the following areas of responsibility:
-  Maintain the accounting issues log and memorandum for record log, including obtaining updates to the logs, facilitating the regular AIL and MFR calls, and creating logs for distribution to the FLT on a regular basis.
-  Maintain the GAPTAG MFR database, ensuring that it is kept up to date with final copies of MFRs each quarter and ensuring all MFRs comply with the MFR protocol.
-  Act as first point of contact for FCO for quarterly audits of the AIL/MFR process, providing information as requested and answering questions on the process.
-  Prepare the quarterly Out of Period based on OP submissions from Controllers.

The process involves:
o Assessing materiality of OPs on Company financial statements
o Preparing multiple analytics on OP trends and financial statement impacts
o Preparing ad-hoc analysis on OP information, including by root cause, financial statement line item, segment, and others as requested
o Drafting the quarterly materiality memo
-  Preparing the Significant Items and Out of Period information for the PwC closing meeting and the Corporate Comptroller Board Book on a quarterly basis
-  Preparing the Materiality Log in advance of the quarterly Materiality Meetings with the Corporate Comptroller
-  Ad-hoc technical accounting / other projects

KEY OUTPUTS
-  AIL / MFR logs, including FLT versions
-  Significant Items and Out of Period pages for quarterly Board Book
-  Out of Period Trends and Graphs deck
-  Materiality List

ONGOING INTERACTION WITH THE FOLLOWING GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS
-  Corporate TAG
-  Global Reporting
-  BU / Market Controllers

EOE statement: American Express is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Required Qualifications:

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE
Required Qualifications:
-  Bachelor's degree required.
-  CPA with a minimum of three years of financial accounting experience, preferably with at least two years at a “Big-4” CPA firm.
-  Must have good organization skills and be proactive
-  Must have very strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly and concisely translate complex accounting jargon into plain English.
-  Must have a demonstrated and proven ability to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast-paced deadline-driven and constantly changing environment.
-  Must be able to work as part of a team in a consultative environment, constantly working with various groups within AXP, as well as work independently on individual projects.
-  Strong MS Excel skills

Beneficial Experience:
-  Accounting & Reporting: technical knowledge associated with current accounting pronouncements, familiarity with financial statements by segment, understanding of business drivers and implications.
-  In-depth knowledge of multiple finance processes in large business operations.
-  Successful track record in delivering significant change at a senior level and ability to communicate this effectively to all levels of the organization.
-  Experience of project managing major process reengineering activity across a large finance function.

Personal Attributes Required:
-  Pragmatic commercial operator with strong technical disciplines.
-  Confident leader with outstanding relationship management skills.
-  Ability to drive change across a large operation utilizing strong influencing skills and an ability to convey a sense of purpose, alignment with company strategy, and connection to individual's goals.
-  Excellent leader and collaborative team player with ability to build relationships and influence decisions and get things done with or without direct authority (matrix management).

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