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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.

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The Global Advertising and Brand Management (GABM) organization has a mission to create marketplace demand and drive commerce for American Express through differentiated and innovative products, partnerships, marketing, and customer experiences. We have an ambitious goal: to be the most creative department in the Fortune 500 and we aim to deliver on that by doing work that is both creative and impactful.

The Strategic Planning & Investments team is core to leading GABM’s strategic planning process and setting the vision for one of the world’s most valuable brands. We are looking for a dynamic individual to support the year-round integrated planning function, as well as manage and uplift our financial management infrastructure to support a global team. This Senior Manager will play a critical role in GABM’s ability to deploy, measure, and optimize global investments. 

The ideal candidate has strong problem-solving skills and business acumen, and has a great collaborative mindset.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Provide strategic and financial consultancy for all GABM teams.
• Lead monthly R&O process for all discretionary investments. Manage monthly forecasting processes, funding allocation, and day-to-day financial matters for the organization. 
• Uplift current financial measurement, reporting and visualization processes and packages. 
• Lead development of executive reporting. 
• Build relationships with all teams throughout the organization including key partners in Finance and Corporate Planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Consulting and/or FP&A experience preferred.
• Strong financial analysis mindset and decision support experience, and a proven strategic thought leadership by contributing to initiatives like process improvements and re-engineering.
• Advanced project/process management and prioritization skills.
• Track record for leading and implementing multiple initiatives with accurate and impactful results.
• Comfort in ambiguity with an ability to learn quickly, “connect the dots”, challenge and innovate, and drive results.
• Excellent relationship management skills - proven ability to build and strengthen relationships across all levels, both internally and externally.
• Strong integrity and ability to handle projects of a sensitive and confidential nature.
• 3-5 years’ of experience in financial planning & analysis, supplementary experience in management consulting/strategy, or analytics a plus. 
• Experience with financial systems, including Ariba and Oracle, a plus.
• Highly skilled in Excel and PowerPoint.

Salary Range: $90,000.00 to $165,000.00 annually bonus 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 this position.

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 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• 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
• Access to Amex Marketing U, a unique learning and development program built for marketers, by marketers. Amex Marketing U inspires marketers to develop their career through innovative learning experiences and opportunities that foster collaboration and knowledge sharing across the enterprise.

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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