American Express - Service Delivery Leader - Financial Reporting

Service Delivery Leader - Financial reporting

Job Description :

This position will be part of the Financial Reporting Cluster. This position will provide leadership to a Global Reporting function. Incumbent is required to :

- Provide support to the Entity Submissions & Consolidations/ Entity Submissions Centralization processes through which information for some of the External Reporting / Regulatory Filings is gathered from various entities / markets across AXP.

- The Entity Submissions & Consolidations team provides support for the standard submissions to all the entities / markets and is responsible for review of the submission to ensure completeness, correctness & adherence to timelines. The consolidated information is shared with the External Reporting & Regulatory reporting Teams.

- Manage key business processes and reporting on business performance related to the AXP/Segment Balance Sheet.

- Supervise the preparation of financial results, including reporting key performance metrics.

- Compiling FAB (Finance Analysis Book) slides for senior leadership review and analyzing period over period variances for AXP/Segment Balance Sheet

- Support new business initiatives by carrying out ad-hoc analysis and enable accurate reporting, post new business initiatives.

- Work on global/regional projects which would involve working across finance leadership and coordinating with multiple business partners.

- Lead/support assigned global/regional initiatives from Reporting perspective and provide leadership to all concerned resources.

- This position will be required to support various Balance Sheet Reporting initiatives undertaken by the management from time to time and accordingly, the job role may undergo a change, to align with those initiatives

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 incumbent should either be CA/CPA or an MBA from a premier institute with 6+ years of post qualification experience.

- Experience in Management or Balance Sheet Reporting and consequently sound understanding of Balance Sheet and/or P&L drivers is essential.

- Strong knowledge of AMEX businesses, AMEX Finance and Reporting Systems would be preferred.

- Knowledge of US GAAP and SEC Reporting will be an advantage.

- Must be proficient in MS Applications such as Word, Excel, and Power Point.

- Ability to collaborate across geographies with multiple Finance partners across Controllership, Business Unit Finance and other Finance organizations to source information and deliver on customer expectations.

- Should be a strong people leader with prior experience of leading a team of professionals with ability to identify, train, motivate, develop and deliver through and with a diverse team.

- Should have strong results orientation, lateral thinking ability, project management and co-ordination abilities.

- Six Sigma awareness and training would be useful.

- Must have excellent communication, cross-cultural experience and interpersonal skills of a high order and should be able to interact independently with senior business partners / customers etc.

- Should have problem solving, planning and analytical skills to facilitate and focus on continuous improvement and innovation