American Express

Senior Lead 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?

Responsible for contacting clients with overdue accounts to secure the settlement of the account. Also, they do preventive work to avoid future overdue with accounts that have a high exposure.

Minimum Qualifications

The primary purpose of this role requires to manage financial accounting process for American Express Cobrand arrangements, Cost of card member services & Payment to partner, new business acquisitions accounting etc. Ensuring reconciliation and reporting of financials. The incumbent will be required to closely work with business partners across AXP. The role will require strong focus on generating efficiencies, accelerating accounting processes and ensuring overall governance.

Academic Background:

- Graduate / Post-Graduate in Commerce with 1-3 years of relevant experience in financial accounting.

Functional:
- End to end ownership of key enterprise financial processes like Cost of Card Member Services, New business acquisitions, Opex Accounting etc.
- Ensure that all SLAs are timely & accurately met with adequate controls over the processes to ensure integrity of the information.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end AR/AP process flow, accounting & reconciliation.
- Awareness of US GAAP/Local GAAP/IFRS (Accounting knowledge) & understanding of business products.
- Pro-actively develop meaningful data insights/trends to enable finance decision support to our customer’s/business partners for more effective planning & forecasting activities.
- Responsible for owning & maintaining financial/data integrity, compliance with internal service level agreements (SLA), guidelines, accounting policies and regulatory requirements as applicable.
- Ability to work across multiple time zones
- The incumbent will be required to have strong accounting & reconciliation knowledge, policy awareness & control mindset with ability to read, interpret various contractual terms/ arrangements and apply to function and activities.
- Strong communication, relationship management & collaboration skills while closely working with various stakeholders across Controllership, Business Finance, Audit and Control groups, etc.
- High proficiency in MS-Office applications, Oracle Applications, Essbase/Smart View etc.
- Strong knowledge on Control & Compliance specifically to SOX & Internal controls.
Additional:
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve queries with the ability to deal with large set of data.
- Excellent verbal & written communication with good presentation skills.
- Ability to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvements.
- Quick learner, an eye for detail and ability to work during ambiguity.
- Ability to work across multiple time zones.
- Should be able to work independently with minimal supervision.
Technical:
- Good understanding of general accounting principles and basic techno finance/automation knowhow will be an added advantage.
Required Skillset
- Good Communication Skills
- Self-Starter, can work independently
- Sound Accounting Knowledge
- MS Office proficiency
Preferred Qualifications
- B. Com/M. Com/MBA (Finance)/CA

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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