Manager, Finance

Description

You Lead the Way. We've 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, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

The ICS LFO Canada team is a highly respected decision support finance team that works closely with multiple business partners to provide analytical and value-added recommendations that have tangible impact on business decisions, long range strategy and overall growth performance. With numerous stakeholders requiring consultative finance support, the level of exposure and insights to real business challenges and opportunities is high and often demanding.

To be successful, the candidate will need to collaborate with stakeholders across multiple disciplines, including Finance, Marketing, Controllership, and Risk. This position requires strong written and verbal communication skills, the ability to prioritize effectively, a passion for the business, resourcefulness, and comfort working in dynamic and fast-paced environment.

The role will be focused on identifying, coordinating, and delivering relevant financial analytics to drive the financial performance and strategic direction of the organization. These analytics are aimed at providing exceptional decision support to Canada's senior leadership and helping drive business strategies.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Provide analytical and financial decision support to ICS Canada

• Complete strategic and financial planning processes (e.g., Monthly Reviews, Variance Analysis, Annual Plan, Investment Optimization, and Long-Range Plan)

• Query, curate & analyze large data sets (Cornerstone/SQL/LUMI), and use data to substantiate and inform business strategy

• Transform data sets into compelling visuals that clearly articulate business drivers/KPIs and drive insights (i.e., Tableau and PowerBI dashboards and reports)

• Derive actionable business or financial insights and recommendations, and communicate these in a clear and concise manner to internal partners

• Lead and develop Senior Financial Analyst

• Collaborate with the broader Finance team (FP&A, Controllership, Treasury, Tax) as well as other business partners to advance the vision and strategy of the Finance team and the broader business

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in Finance and an Accounting Designation (CPA, CFA, MBA- Finance, MMA)

• 5 years relevant finance / business experience

• Ability to influence others without having direct authority, including demonstrated ability to influence senior management in the company

• Strong written and verbal communication skills (experience synthesizing and communicating complex concepts, opportunities, recommendations and strategy to Sr. Leadership)

• Robust modelling and analytics experience

• Strong working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint

• Extensive knowledge of programming language and data modeling tools (SQL, SAS, LUMI and Python)

• Experience with designing and building PowerBI and Tableau dashboards

• Strong attention to detail; an analytical mind and inclination for problem-solving

• Ability to handle several tasks while maintaining accuracy

Preferred Qualifications

• Sound financial experience and knowledge of the payments industry economics preferred

Qualifications

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

• Support for financial-well-being and retirement

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)

• 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

American Express is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible work environment in which all people who apply for positions or who work for or on behalf of Amex are treated with dignity and respect and are provided with equal treatment with respect to employment, regardless of that person's age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, colour, ancestry, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, family status, pregnancy, disability, record of offences, social condition or origin, political beliefs, association or activity or other factors prohibited under applicable Human Rights legislation (the "Prohibited Grounds"). If you have a disability and need accommodation, please speak with the Recruiter for more information.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Job: Finance

Primary Location: Canada-Ontario-Toronto

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24020378