Director - Transformation and Controls Product Owner

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How will you make an impact in this role?

The Director of Product Owner Transformation and Controls is a critical leadership role in Financial Reporting Quality Assurance Organization (FRQA) within Corporate Controllership, in support of the Regulatory Reporting Automation program. This role is responsible for leading transformational efforts to elevate our controls and risk management for regulatory high-risk reports on critical enterprise initiatives, focusing on driving the definition, analysis and documentation of key regulatory reporting requirements, architectural designs and deliver best-in-class, end-to-end automation through cutting-edge new tech trends such as AI / ML and leveraging regulatory reporting platforms to enable transformation in the banking industry.

The Product Ownership teams under Regulatory Automation & Change Management (RACM) oversee the technical interpretation and analysis of automation requirements for US regulatory reporting (including but not restricted to FR Y9C, FR2052a, FR Y9LP, FR Y14M / A / Q, FR 2314, FR Y11, FFEIC 009 / 009A, FFEIC 031, FR Y15, FFEIC 101 and TIC reporting), evaluating business regulatory instruction documentation, data sourcing and gap analysis requirements, and the prioritization of last mile reporting automation features and user stories for American Express.

The Director of the Product Ownership function dedicated to Transformation and Controls must be a highly analytical, well-organized, data-driven individual with exceptional leadership, control management expertise and a high degree of technical skills confident in presenting, highly complex data concepts and technicalities in simple terms and pragmatically, to upper management and executive leadership, to drive critical enterprise decisions.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

• Lead and be the US regulatory reporting automation point-of-contact for our enterprise initiatives to elevate and transform our control environment for regulatory reporting automation opportunities and requirements.
• Establish a transformation automation roadmap for our platform capabilities that elevate our prioritization and risk management principles, driving the continuous improvement of backlog requirements through Regulatory Reporting last mile submission solutions (e.g., Axiom SL)
• Drive the Solution Architecture Forum agenda and Capabilities discussions in support of Point of Arrival (POA) data pipeline cloud-based design, including but not restricted to the acceleration of legacy platforms decommission, creating a control management framework on hollow-out strategies in close partnership with Global Capabilities Product Owners and Data Sourcing Architecture teams
• Collaborating extensively with US Regulatory Report Owner business partners and other Product Owner teams involved in the US Regulatory Reporting Automation program to support the identification and codification of business requirements, coordinating functional design, prototyping, testing, implementation and reprioritization across the US regulatory reporting roadmap automation initiatives backlog.
• Develop functional requirement documentation and process specific design documentation (I.e., features, user stories, business expected values, etc.) to support regulatory report owner requirements across agile development tools (I.e., Rally, JIRA, BPM, etc.)
• Coordinate with various other Product Owners, Process Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Solution Architecture colleagues to ensure proper and data / control management designs.
• Knowledgeable in development methodologies, understanding of SQL development, system functionality and expected business values for certification of automation results.
• Participate in daily stand ups with the pods (implementation groups for various portfolios of the Company for data sourcing and regulatory classification and reporting), leading and delivering efficient solution to complex prioritization and business requirement.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Salary Range : $130,000.00 to $205,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

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