Job description 

This position is part of a team that manages the data and business architecture for pan finance solutions within the Finance, Technology & Transformation group. The primary responsibility for this role is to lead the end-to-end data and process architecture and delivery for projects for multiple line of businesses within Finance organization at American Express. This role will primarily be responsible for determining the proper sources and processes for acquiring, enriching, and provisioning data required by Finance processes in the following major areas: Financial Reporting, Operational Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, Management Reporting, and Advanced Analytics processes.

This role will require strong collaboration with Technology to design how functionality will work and design the validation process at regular intervals that the software features developed align with original requirements provided to the team.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Finance process analysis

• Work with the Finance process owners and other teams to analyze and document their process requirements in terms of data, required transformations, and reporting/analytical output
• Work with product team to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a prioritized list of data requirements / user stories
• Document processing requirements, including data and transaction volumes, scalability, security and performance requirements

Solution Design

• Work with Technology, Finance partners, source system owners, and other stakeholders to locate the data required by Finance and ensure the data architecture design supports Finance’s accounting, reporting and analytics requirements
• Identify required reference data needs and design the processes for collecting and maintaining reference data
• Document future state processes Finance processes for data acquisition, enrichment, provisioning, and processing/reporting

Build/Deployment

• Work with AET, Finance partners, source system owners, and other stakeholders, to deploy solutions across the appropriate Finance user base
• Build, test and deploy solutions to acquire, enrich and provision the required data and ensure data integrity, accuracy and completeness
• Perform data validation as part of Finance user testing as needed
• Perform systems integration and pre-user acceptance testing

Qualification and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Information Management, Data Management or similar field preferred
• Previous work experience in various Finance disciplines such as Accounting, Financial Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, Management Reporting, Treasury, Tax, Banking and others., Data Management, and other data related projects
• Strong knowledge of relational database concepts and data management concepts; advance knowledge of SQL or other query languages is required
• Basic understanding of Agile methodology and delivery concepts
• Candidate must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as strong relationship skills
• Previous experience working closely with Technologies to deploy systems to re-engineer processes and solve complex business problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated organizational skills with the ability to meet critical deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Self-motivated, proactive, and dedicated to the delivery of high-quality service to consistently exceeds customers’ expectations