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American Express Senior Financial Analyst in London, United Kingdom
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Our industry is rapidly evolving, and we need courageous, quick thinkers who can shape the strategic decisions that lead our business forward. Whether it’s negotiating with some of our largest global partners or creating next year’s financial plan, you can influence both our day-to-day P&L and the future direction of the company. As part of the team, you can have the opportunity to learn and use the latest data tools and technologies and explore a range of roles to grow your career. Find your place in finance on #TeamAmex.
The International Card Services (ICS) FP&A team leads the end-to-end forecasting and financial planning processes for the ICS segment, providing decision support to Senior Finance leaders by producing P&L reports and analyses, bringing forward analytical insights, and carrying out thorough financial planning. Delivering on these key goals requires high levels of analytical rigour, financial thought leadership, knowledge of the P&L, strong collaboration across teams, and relationship-building skills.
Based in London, the Sr Financial Analyst (SFA), Analytics role will face off multiple stakeholders across BU FP&A, Market & Central Lead Financial Officer (LFO) teams, Investment Optimization (IO), Controllership, Risk and Rewards Finance teams. The main focus of the role will be leading analytical projects across P&L verticals, developing insightful financial analyses and frameworks, improving forecasting and planning models, and preparing and presenting materials for ICS Finance & Business Leadership. This is a high-visibility role with exposure to senior leaders across different Finance teams. As such, the ideal candidate must possess excellent analytical and modelling skills, strong communication and relationship-building skills, and the ability to collaborate seamlessly with colleagues across organization.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Lead the analytical workstream of multiple high-priority transformation projects spanning across P&L verticals (including but not limited to: CoCMS, Card Fees, OPEX & Headcount, Discount Revenue), leveraging P&L, Product and Cardmember-level data to derive insights, and improve visibility and accuracy of forecasting models
Produce insightful and valuable performance analysis for Finance and Business leadership, focusing on identifying key insights and risks/opportunities in the P&L
Develop and improve financial forecasting models, all with a continuous analytical focus on influencing decisions at the appropriate level.
Work across the organization, linking with key partners across ICS LFO teams to incorporate strategic insights and local knowledge into long term analytic processes.
Own the financial analysis for ICS Margins and collaborate with LFO partners to understand market and product financial performance drivers that support ICS outlook process, as well as supporting the Annual and Long-Range planning processes.
Minimum Qualifications
Analytical skills, including extensive big data analytics (Cornerstone/SQL) and P&L analytics (TM1)
Strong financial analysis and modelling skills, with proven ability to drive analytical output aimed at identifying trends, developing key insights, and required decisions for senior management
Solid understanding of the P&L and of card economics
Superior communication skills and an ability to story tell through data
Highly motivated and intellectually curious, with desire to work on ambiguous and complex projects
Strong collaboration and relationship building skills
Flexibility to deal with change in a fast-paced environment, enthusiastic and able to perform under pressure to meet deadlines with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn
Qualifications
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
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
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
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Job: Finance
Primary Location: United Kingdom-London-London
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24000324