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Financial Analyst- Regulatory Reporting and Quality Assurance

Financial Analyst- Regulatory Reporting and Quality Assurance

locationNew York, NY, USA
PublishedPublished: 11/5/2024
Accounting
Full Time

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Function Description

The Quality Assurance and Regulatory Governance team is responsible for ensuring governance and oversight of regulatory reporting process. The team performs Quality Assurance reviews including process & controls testing, testing the conformity of reported data with reporting instructions and gathering, sampling, understanding, and testing the data to ensure data quality for various regulatory reporting purposes. The team partners closely with the Regulatory Report owners, Technology, Data Governance, and other stakeholders to perform the review and ensure robust governance.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Responsibilities

  • Perform quality assurance testing of regulatory reports, share findings, and monitor closure
  • Perform data gathering for portfolios and reports in scope of testing
  • Conduct data analysis, decipher transformation logics and define selection approach for data sampling
  • Support process review to identify control gaps and improvement opportunities
  • Work closely and coordinate with various regulatory reporting, technology, data governance, service management, teams to ensure the quality assurance over the regulatory reporting processes.
  • Support regulatory reporting to ensure compliance with the reporting guidelines issued by regulators
  • Ensure compliance with the Regulatory Reporting Governance policy and prepare key metrics
  • Prepare presentations for senior management displaying key performance indicators used for regulatory reporting oversight
  • Display thought leadership, drive process, and support work/life balance initiatives

Minimum Qualifications

  • At least 2+ years’ experience in Finance/Accounting/Reporting
  • Exhibits organizational skills with the ability to meet/exceed critical deadlines and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously
  • A self-starter, proactive team player with a passion to consistently deliver high quality service and exceed customers’ expectations
  • Excellent Communication Skills; Verbal, Written
  • Excellent relationship building, presentation, and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Knowledge of financial reporting, regulatory reporting, and banking products, is preferred
  • Experience in data analytics, data controls and understanding of data transformation logics is a plus

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Salary Range: $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

  • Competitive base salaries 
  • Bonus incentives 
  • 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
  • Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
  • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
  • 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
  • Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
  • Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
  • Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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