AML Project Manager Brighton, England
Job description
You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and let’s lead the way together.
International Operational Excellence is a newly expanded organization, responsible for supporting our international Issuing and our international Acquiring businesses across 27+ markets in ensuring a robust first line of defence, and in playing an active role in supporting the Business meet its growth objectives whilst demonstrating an effective control framework.
Our organization helps our international businesses handle risk, respond to new regulation, and develop new products whilst crafting and encouraging effective partnerships across multiple critical team members across the organisation. The organisation also leads an enterprise-wide International Financial Crimes Transformation program and is building an international first line privacy function designed to strengthen our enterprise-wide controls around privacy and information protection.
Within International Operational Excellence, the Financial Crime Transformation program is looking to recruit a Project Manager with a passion in project and program management to drive delivery of KYC & AML initiatives.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Reporting to the Market Enablement Director, key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Lead delivery of key initiatives across Acquisition, Refresh and Sanctions Screening processes, as required
- Provide oversight on key project deliveries, as appropriate
- Review and map project plans as required for maintaining the standards of project management within the program
- Communicating Program / project status to senior leadership & key stakeholders, as appropriate.
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be able to multitask and meet strict deadlines and work well with different areas of the organization.
- Proactive and results oriented outlook, combining strong project management, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Proven track record in building lasting relationships and influencing without authority, coupled with strong communication skills at multiple band levels
- Self-motivated, business and customer focused with excellent relationship skills.
- Ability to form relationships and partner with others to get results.
This is an exciting opportunity to expand your skills and develop a new or existing career in Operational Excellence!
Training will be provided if you are new to risk or operational excellence activities to help you to understand the role and wider area. The skills are more important to the hiring leadership than specific experience.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
To complete your application, please click on the links below. However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Recruitment Team on [email protected]
