Compliance Manager

Job Description

Work Location Options :

Hybrid

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Responsible for contacting clients with overdue accounts to secure the settlement of the account. Also they do preventive work to avoid future overdues with accounts that have a high exposure. As a key member of the EMEA Regional MLRO team, this role will support the Global Financial Crimes organization and the EMEA market MLROs in the main aspects related to the Financial Crimes program requirements at Enterprise, Regional and local market level, ensuring a holistic view of key risks, of the regulatory challenges as well as analysis of the regulatory region / market trends.

Reporting directly to the director of EMEA Regional Financial Crime Compliance Organization, the candidate will manage a variety of compliance related matters, supporting and overseeing implementation of Enterprise, Regional and market policies and procedures to achieve compliance with legal obligations and Company policy on all business activities.

More precisely, the position will have responsibility to :

• Manage Financial Crimes Compliance aspects of the Legal Entities governance structure. Will support the Legal Entities AML Committees organization with the market MLROs to ensure harmonization of the governance arrangements. Incumbent will also work on the prudential oversight of AEESA and AEPE branches, channeling the escalation of matters from the local branches AML Committees
• In close coordination with Companys Financial Crimes Risk Management policy and standards, will support setting the standards for market committees, policies and procedures across regions market teams
• Support issuance of the annual business-wide risk assessment, in line with Enterprises methodology, overseeing market deployment to ensure harmonization at Legal Entity / region level
• Support issuance of the MLROs Annual Activity Report, in line with EBA guidelines of the role of the Compliance Officer
• Support issuance of the internal business control framework evaluation program
• Supporting the EMEA Regional MLRO and the market MLROs in managing regulatory interactions and regulatory exams

The position will supervise a team of 3 compliance analysts and 2 assistants performing compliance professionals focusing on governance matters as well as providing advisory support to the region card issuing business.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Non-considerations for sponsorship : Employment eligibility to work with American Express in Spain is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Considerations for sponsorship : Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally :

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

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