Senior Manager-Risk Management (Virtual)
American Express
Salem, Oregon
senior
manager
risk management
management
virtual
fraud
payments
strategy
management
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amex
american express
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January 18, 2023
American Express
Salem, Oregon
Description
You Lead the Way. Weve Got Your Back.
With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express, youll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
This position will be responsible for implementing risk controls end-to-end for payments rails for a transactional banking product, including platform requirements, vendor selection, feature generation and strategy management.
The successful applicant will need to have both a deep expertise in banking payments fraud as well as be a proven thought leader.
The Credit and Fraud Risk Strategy Function
The CFR leads the first line of defense business for credit and fraud risk, including ownership of the strategy across all banking products and channels.
It focuses on four areas:
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.
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.
US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the Know Your Rights poster and supplement and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.
If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: to access the three posters.
Considerations for sponsorship:
Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.
Job: Risk
Primary Location: United States
Schedule Full-time
Req ID:
You Lead the Way. Weve Got Your Back.
With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express, youll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
This position will be responsible for implementing risk controls end-to-end for payments rails for a transactional banking product, including platform requirements, vendor selection, feature generation and strategy management.
The successful applicant will need to have both a deep expertise in banking payments fraud as well as be a proven thought leader.
The Credit and Fraud Risk Strategy Function
The CFR leads the first line of defense business for credit and fraud risk, including ownership of the strategy across all banking products and channels.
It focuses on four areas:
- Working with product and engineering stakeholders to optimize risk capabilities through continuous transformation
- Development of strong relationships with stakeholders across operations, capabilities, and product among others to turn insights into action
- Develop and manage analytics to identify new fraud trends and insights
- Design and implementation of rules and strategies in the risk platforms
- End-to-end risk controls for banking payments rails
- Support of an end-to-end fraud decisioning strategy that optimizes fraud detection and client experience by driving functional requirements and creating an end-to-end view of an optimized fraud and client experience strategy
- Communicate effectively across teams and gain credibility by understanding end to end impacts of the fraud strategies that are implemented
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues across the firm including business, technology, product management, operations management, legal, compliance, risk, and audit to drive engagement with the fraud prevention program
- Act as a bank risk subject matter expert and share best practices across the firm
- Bachelor's or Masters degree or equivalent work experience in risk management, especially deposit & operational risk (Masters in Science, engineering/tech, math/stats or MBA degree a plus)
- 1-2 years of banking and/or payments experience, across the fraud life cycle, preferably within a regulated banking institution
- Proven knowledge and experience with banking payments risk including but not limited to ACH, wires, peer-to-peer (P2P)/real-time payments
- Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to manage professional relationships
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency working with data
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.
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.
US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the Know Your Rights poster and supplement and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.
If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: to access the three posters.
Considerations for sponsorship:
Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.
Job: Risk
Primary Location: United States
Schedule Full-time
Req ID:
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