American Express

Financial Analyst

Posted On

April 29, 2025

Location

Gurgaon, Haryana

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

May 18, 2025

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Finance is a collaborative team, playing a key role in advising all areas of the business. We have a strategic seat at the table and our unique insights are valued in a highly competitive marketplace and increasingly complex global regulatory environment.

This team collaborates globally to deliver expert accounting, reporting & advisory services, and financial risk control & governance, while supporting business growth & protecting shareholder value

Purpose of the Role:

• Responsible for management & governance of monthly accounting for legal entities

• Managing end to end responsibility of one of the non-banking legal entities

• Monthly review of financials to provide critical inputs to entity controller on various cost analytics and services fee charge-out

• Analysis of Legal Entity Results, identification of anomalies during close

• Identify opportunities to standardize, improve and automate existing processes within/across teams

• Plan/coordinate with various stake-holders to execute process improvement opportunities

• Partner with various groups to identify and leverage best practices

• Manage & govern various regulatory filings and compliances

• Compliance with prevailing policies & procedures etc.

• Monthly/Quarterly update to Legal Governance Committee / Board members and ensuring all regulatory compliances

• Ensure that all deadlines are continually met, and adequate controls are maintained over the processes to ensure integrity of the information

• Maintain close contact with customer / business partners and other interface groups to ensure a smooth service delivery

• Provide end to end support for the legal entity statutory / internal / other audits including discussion with auditors and drive closure of Internal and External Audit of Local as well as US GAAP ledgers

• Coordinate with GFO/GBS functions to provide external audit support, including Reconciliations, Accounting and Payment Operations, plus World Services Cashiers as appropriate

Responsibilites:

Critical Factors to Success:

Business Outcomes:

• Own & maintain financial/data integrity

• Stay relevant to the business/functional requirements

• Understand & leverage intelligent automation technologies to generate use cases within the team & create opportunities to support the automation team to get that implemented

Leadership Outcomes:

• Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.

• Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings

• Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity

• Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day

Past Experience:

CA/CPA with 1+years of experience or MBA with 3 + years of experience or M Com with 7 + years of experience.

Functional Skills/Capabilities:

• Strong understanding of end-to-end accounting, basic understanding of reporting

• Understanding of financial consolidation process

• Ability to research and embed relevant best practices

Technical Skills/Capabilities:

• Knowledge of financial systems – Oracle, OBI etc, Advanced MS office suits such as Excel, Word, Power-point

• Strong IGAAP/IND AS knowledge and awareness of US GAAP (Accounting knowledge)

• Analytical skills with the ability to undertake cause effect analysis

• Working knowledge of automation tools like Tableau, Python, Natural Language Generation [NLG], Machine Learning Studio [MLS] etc. would be an added advantage

Behavioral Skills/Capabilities:

Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

• Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective

• Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential

• Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage

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

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

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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