American Express is currently on the lookout for qualified individuals to join as Manager-Financial Systems in Bengaluru. The ideal candidate for this role would hold a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Information Management, Data Management, or a related field, although freshers are also encouraged to apply. This position offers a unique opportunity for individuals to step into a managerial role right from the start of their career. As a Manager-Financial Systems at American Express, selected candidates will play a key role in overseeing and optimizing financial systems, contributing to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the company’s financial processes.
Company Name: American Express
Job Role: Manager-Financial Systems
Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Information Management, Data Management or similar field preferred
Experience Required: Freshers
Job Location: Bengaluru
Role and Responsibilities:
Finance process analysis:
- Work with the Finance process owners and other teams to understand and document their process requirements in terms of data and required transformations.
- 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.
- Design processes to enrich and provision data to the required Finance processes.
- Contribute to decisions about tools, methods and approaches.
- Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
Build/Deployment:
- Work with Technology, Finance partners, source system owners, and other stakeholders, to deploy solutions across the appropriate Finance user base.
- Lead the creation and execution of systems integration and pre-user acceptance testing plans and test cases.
Required Skills and Qualification:
- 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.
- Previous work experience with American Express business processes and systems, such as Card Member receivables, Merchant processing and payables, Loyalty processes, Lending, and Banking is helpful.
- Strong knowledge of relational database concepts and data management concepts; knowledge of SQL or other query languages.
- Basic understanding of Big Data environments (unstructured, structured) and related technologies (e.g., ELT, Machine Learning).
- 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.
- Transformational approach to Process efficiency and effectiveness.
- 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.
