At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared聽 values 聽and聽 Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
As part of Team Amex, you鈥檒l experience our powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
How will you make an impact in this role?
This is a Senior Legal Entity Manager Role based in our Rome office.
This will mean being a trusted advisor, supporting the business to assess, mitigate and accept risk. The role will be responsible for ensuring a strong control focus is integrated into day-to-day operations and that the Legal Entity operational risk processes are appropriately managed. Focus will also be to ensure issues and risks are managed promptly and effectively, with root causes identified and addressed, and to support business initiatives to enable strong business growth in the region.
Responsibilities of the incumbent will include:
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Presence at Legal entity Committees in ensuring effective and appropriate governance of associated Operational Risks.
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Understanding of Legal Entity Governance framework: Ensure that the Governance Framework adopted locally is effective and streamlined, aligned with AXP Governance Standards, effectively supports business processes and change management and meets external regulatory requirements and understanding of risks and controls using the PRSA methodology.
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Enabling business growth and supporting change management: Manage the end-to-end risk assessment process for all new products, platforms, and capabilities locally, supporting and enabling business growth.
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Third Party Risk (TLM): Support sound execution of the TLM program for ICS locally and oversee Outsourcing activities. Provide guidance to the business to manage vendor risks by ensuring appropriate risk assessments and the closure of issues in line with the TLM framework.聽
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Effectively engage and liaise with the Central International team(s) to support and streamline key business process and Business Self Testing programs.
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Role will include understanding and managing any TRSCO demands and working closely with the TRSCO RM to ensure Market needs are met in a timely manner.
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All Bank boundary reports Tech InfoSec Risk and Cyber actions will be handed over to RISO
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Act as a liaison with the Group for Technology initiatives as regional, international or global level that impact the Company. facilitating local visibility and the monitoring of projects through dedicated tools (e.g., dashboards detailing projects / initiatives, the systems involved, and their respective timelines), as well as information flows to corporate bodies when necessary.
Minimum Qualifications:
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Experience in Operational Excellence, Compliance, Operational Risk or a related discipline, ideally in more than one of these disciplines.
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Experience in business process improvement, control design and development of control and process testing.
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Knowledge of issuer products and processes
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Demonstrated ability to partner with a broad network of colleagues to drive effective issue identification and resolution across the three lines of defense.
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Demonstrated interpersonal skills to work across a wide range of teams and build effective working relationships.聽
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Strong communicator, with experience of engaging with senior management.
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Desire to learn and continuously searching to understand industry best practices and find creative solutions.
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Ability to thrive in a fast paced and fluid business environment.
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Proficiency in English and Italian both written and spoken is required
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in Italy聽is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.聽聽
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
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Competitive base salaries
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Bonus incentives
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Support for financial-well-being and retirement
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Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
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Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
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Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
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Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
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Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
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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.