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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.

Our industry is rapidly evolving, and we need courageous, quick thinkers who can shape the strategic decisions that lead our business forward. Whether it’s negotiating with some of our largest global partners or creating next year’s financial plan, you can influence both our day-to-day P&L and the future direction of the company. As part of the team, you can have the opportunity to learn and use the latest data tools and technologies and explore a range of roles to grow your career. Find your place in finance on #TeamAmex.

Director, Strategic Transformation and Program Management Office (PMO)

As American Express continues along an impressive growth trajectory, the company is ascending the ranks of the Federal Reserve’s bank categorization. With the category changes come heightened requirements in the liquidity, capital, and regulatory reporting domains. To prepare, American Express created Project Fast Forward to interpret these new requirements and uplift capabilities to meet our needs. A Program Management Office (PMO) has been established to oversee this multi-year transformation initiative that is critical to American Express’ continued success. The PMO is coordinating across Finance and other enterprise partners to facilitate the end-to-end lifecycle of change management.

As a member of the PMO, the Director role will partner with leaders to evolve project plans, ensure progress against project milestones, and lead select topic deep dives with senior leadership. The PMO role will partner directly with global stakeholders and interact frequently with senior program leaders across Finance, Risk, Technology, and other functions. There is a high degree of complexity to meet new and evolving regulations for American Expression and deliverables have tight timelines which require coordination across multiple teams. The Director will need to be dynamic, adaptable, and flexible, while leveraging existing and further refining PMO best practices. To be successful, the Director will need to ramp up quickly, building relationships and subject matter knowledge to draw connections across teams and support SMEs and cross functional team in the prioritization of deliverables.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Strong project management skills, ability to manage multiple tasks and initiatives simultaneously, and drive alignment on key decisions

• Provide thought leadership and liaise with enterprise teams to uplift project management governance and best practices to comply with new enterprise requirements

• Develop impactful relationships, engage extensive set of stakeholders

• Play a central role in uplifting Finance organizations awareness and understanding of Category Migration through various engagement activities, including learning and development days

• Deep dive into critical topics to understand impact to business, tailor message and develop impactful material for leadership updates

• Provide leadership to direct team and influence a variety of stakeholders

Qualifications:

• Instinctive project management acumen: attention to detail along with ability to keep the big picture in perspective, both proactive and adaptable, ready and willing to handle challenges

• 7 Strong relationship and leadership skills, with a track record of positively collaborating, influencing, and extensively coordinating with internal and external partners, including senior leaders

• Superb communication skills to synthesize key messages, prepare impactful materials, and tailor appropriately for the audience

• Powerful professional presence with the ability to set the right tone when engaging with others

• Proven ability to manage multiple demands successfully within a matrixed organization

• Team player comfortable working collaboratively to resolve challenges in a demanding environment

• Agile, comfort with white space and ambiguity, able to drive change across teams outside of direct reporting line

• Prior experience in Treasury or finance in a large bank, a plus

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.

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

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: Finance

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25000501