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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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The Director of Global Anti-Corruption will report to the Global Head of Anti-Corruption for Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC), and will ensure enterprise-wide compliance with AXP anti-corruption standards and global anti-corruption laws.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The Global Anti-Corruption (GAC) team is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Company’s Anti-Corruption program. Working closely with the Global Head of Anti-Corruption, the qualified candidate will be responsible for: establishing policies and procedures for the giving and receiving of Meals, Gifts & Entertainment; ensuring effective anti-corruption due diligence during third-party lifecycle management; providing oversight of external incentive programs; developing and providing anti-corruption training; providing reporting, metrics and guidance to compliance and business partners (for example, as part of the GFCC’s New Product Acceptance Working Group and Corporate Development activities).

Additionally, the candidate will need to successfully manage a team of 3 managers and 6 analysts to execute against the team’s strategic project roadmap. Priority projects include: enhancements to the anti-corruption due diligence process; further refining customizable reports; overseeing the Anti-Corruption Risk Assessment; and preparing and presenting PowerPoint presentations on program metrics and process enhancements at monthly compliance committee meetings.

Minimum Qualifications

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

• Ability to work on multiple work streams across multiple business lines at the same time

• Ability to operate in a complex matrix environment

• Strong people leadership skills with the ability to motivate, engage and influence

• Support business initiatives by building and maintaining strong relationships with peers and key partners outside of the compliance organization (e.g. GCO, Technology, Finance, Risk, Ops Excellence, Audit)

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Excellent problem-solving and organizational skills

• Excellent attention to detail

• Strong personal integrity and work ethic

• Strong computer knowledge; excellent MS Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint skills

• Must be self-motivated, dependable, adaptable and detail oriented with a proven ability to work independently or within a team environment.

Experience:

• 5 years of anti-corruption experience preferred

• Significant project management experience

• Ability to influence others who are outside your reporting line

• Bachelor’s degree and/or relevant professional qualification preferred (Law Degree, Compliance/AML Diploma, CAMS Certification with a Legal/Compliance/Control/Auditing background)

Qualifications

Salary Range: $130,000.00 to $205,000.00 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 .

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-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-Utah-Sandy, US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24017840