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 setting.

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

Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):

Business Outcomes:

Own maintain financial/data integrity while managing end-to-end global accounting processes

- Stay relevant to the business/functional requirements

- Pro-actively develop meaningful data insights/trends to enable finance decision support to our customer s/business partners for more effective planning forecasting activities.

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

- Ensure first pass yield

- 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

Skills/Capabilities:

Functional:





- Strong understanding of end-to-end AR/AP process flow, accounting reconciliation

- Basic understanding of reporting

- Ability to connect accounting reporting

- Understanding of financial consolidation process

- Understanding of operational, SOX other related control framework compliance

- Ability to research embed relevant best practices

Technical:

Awareness of US GAAP/Local GAAP/IFRS (Accounting knowledge)

- Analytical skills with the ability to undertake cause effect analysis

- Knowledge of financial systems Preferred

- Basic understanding appreciation of automation capabilities

- Understanding of business products

Platforms:

Advanced MS office suits such as Excel, Word, Power point

Preferred:

Ability to use analytical tools for financial systems such as Oracle, IRIS, OBIEE, Essbase, Hyperion Financial Reporting (HFR), etc.

Academic Background:

Graduate / Post-Graduate in Commerce with 1-2 years of relevant experience

Past Experience:

1-2 years of past experience in financial accounting domain with knowledge of Oracle/ERP, card business model.

- Strong English Language skills (both written and verbal)





Responsible for managing monthly accounting for various legal entities ensuring monthly journal entry (MJE) protocol to meet compliance, completeness accuracy standards.

- -Responsible for compliance with internal service level agreements (SLA), guidelines and accounting policies and regulatory requirements of the process

- -Deploy internal accounting external reporting implications of new amended accounting standards

- -Support / participate in standardization, automation and continuous improvement initiatives as well as other business partner initiatives

- -Maintain high accuracy and productivity standards

- -Awareness of the AXP Legal and alternate hierarchies, accounting close governance consolidations

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

- -Stakeholder relationship management

- -Ensure controls compliance with prevailing policies procedures such as SOX, Process Risk Self Assessment (PRSA), etc.

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

- -Ability to work across multiple time zones

- -Leading accounting reporting financial processes as per the aligned SLA s for creation of complete accurate financial statements

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📌 Financial Analyst (Bengaluru)
🏢 American Express
📍 Bengaluru