American Express is seeking a Director of Product Owner Transformation and Controls to lead transformational efforts to elevate controls and risk management for regulatory high-risk reports, focusing on driving the definition, analysis, and documentation of key regulatory reporting requirements, architectural designs, and delivering best-in-class, end-to-end automation through cutting-edge new tech trends such as AI/ML.
Requirements
- Experience in Scaled Agile Framework, Agile mindset, and Transformational Project and Change Management embracing new opportunities and adapt easily to change.
- Experience eliciting and documenting technical business transformation, risk and control requirements via the creation of features, user stories and other key decision documents
- Experience in the application of cutting-edge technology transformational programs such as Gen AI, MS Co-Pilot, Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Programming (NLP), etc.
- Experience with SQL, Python and other Data Automation / Data Visualization techniques.
- Experience with MS Excel, Power Query, and other analytical tools, e.g., Power BI, Tableau.
- IT data management experience, test management and execution experience is a plus.
- SaFe Agile Product Owner and / or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Responsibilities
- 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.
Other
- Degree in Finance/Accounting and/or Information Technologies (master’s preferred).
- 7+ years of experience in the US Federal Reserve / financial US regulatory reporting, banking / financial services, Product, Project and / or Control Management
- Proven people leadership experience and ability to attract, engage and retain talent.
- Excellent written and verbal communications with ability to communicate highly complex concepts and processes in simple terms and pragmatically.
- A self-starter, proactive team player with excellent relationship building and collaboration skills, facilitating a network of strong relationships across the organization.
