American Express - Senior Manager - Accounting & Reporting Governance - CA

Job Description: This position within the Accounting & Reporting Operational Governance group will play a supporting role in proactively managing the Company's Integrated Control testing programme for processes affecting legal entity financial integrity. The incumbent will be required to support in developing and maintaining strong relationships with multiple stakeholders, and work with them to strengthen financial integrity and control environment.

Primary responsibilities include:

- Support in coordination with all process owners to plan and schedule in testing cycles and remediation work.

- Responsible for control testing as per the requirements of the Company's Integrated Control testing programme

- Support in assessment of risk on new and existing processes; mapping and documenting the end to end controls for in-scope processes; assessing and identifying controls to mitigate risks and designing of tests and evidence to mitigate the risks.

- Management of issue tracking for items that require remediation from the testing process.

- Support Responsibility center governance for UK legal entities and ensure that the costs booked in each Responsibility center are adequately charged-out, wherever applicable. Understanding of various charge-out models and ensuring the legal entity treatment of RCs is adequately determined.

- Support & advice business partners to ensure legal entity control and governance for new initiatives/process changes.

- Support in managing end-user administration of key applications that support the governance programme (e.g. - LAN Network Folders, LE Governance Share Point site and CGA Documentum site).

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Qualifications: The successful candidate must have:

- Chartered Accountant with minimum 4 year of post qualification experience preferably with one of the Big 4 accounting firms

- Strong Public Accounting, Internal Control & Audit or Operational risk experience

- Experience in SOX testing will be preferred

- Good understanding of control testing - must be able to design, document and assess tests of financial process controls

- Understanding of assessing financial process risks and ability to make control recommendations to successfully mitigate such risks

- Results oriented, must be flexible and have good work prioritization skill

- Ability to multi-task and think creatively

- Ability to collaborate across geographies in a Matrix structure and deliver on customer expectations.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

- Strong team player, and self-motivation with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

- Excellent management skills

- Good level of proficiency in MS-Office applications

Pallavi Mutgi
Global Talent Acquisition Team
American Express
+91-9900137346