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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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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.
Fraud Risk Team helps enable profitable business growth by reducing the risk of fraud and maintaining our customer’s confidence in the security of our products. Modernizing the authorizations platform is a key strategic imperative across organization to provide new capabilities to enable rapid innovation and growth. The Fraud Risk Team is a major stakeholder in the modernization initiative and will drive business requirements for the new platform, encompassing current functionality and envisioning and planning for future business needs, form factors and payment mechanisms.
We are looking for an Analyst to join Fraud Risk Team who will spearhead fraud requirement gathering and implementation across the platform modernization effort. The role will involve working with key stakeholders across the fraud risk organization, as well as product owners and tech resources to help gather, articulate, prioritize and optimize requirements into a comprehensive roadmap and migration plan.
This is an exciting and critical role that will help drive the modernization roadmap of one of American Express’s most important platforms. To succeed in this role, you would need to have a very good blend of technical skills, innovative thinking and relationship building skills.
Job Responsibilities
Use data driven mindset to understand fraud risk processes and data capabilities.
Gather, synthesize, and articulate fraud requirements.Ensure current needs for Authorizations are being met while future needs are being defined.
Help identify the tradeoffs between supporting current needs vs future functionality.
Partner with fraud and capabilities teams to translate roadmap into well-defined requirements and acceptance criteria.
Conduct validation of migrated capabilities and processes by crunching massive transaction data.
Closely collaborate with tech and product partners to ensure successful outcomes.
Help the tech and product partners envision and understand the need for specific components and data integrations.
Identify and prioritize improvement opportunities.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will have -
Undergraduate or master’s degree in science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science.
Experience with data processing tools such as SQL, Hive, Yellow Brick, or Python is required.
Working knowledge of fraud landscape and emerging fraud trends in the card space is a plus.
Knowledge of machine learning algorithms is a plus
Strong project management skills with a demonstrated ability to drive results and implement strategies. High energy, intellectually curious and infectiously positive
Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence and inspire partners to drive collaboration and alignment
Proven track record of result-orientation
Ability to navigate through ambiguous problems
Ability to solve complex problems and a highly analytical approach
High degree of organization, individual initiative and personal accountability
Qualifications
Salary Range: $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 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 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: Risk
Primary Location: US-New York-New York
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24006966