Analyst – Enterprise Risk Management

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Analyst – Enterprise Risk Management

The Enterprise Risk management & Risk Oversight organization within Global Risk and Compliance (GRC) is responsible for identifying and managing risk across all processes and geographies at American Express.

The Analyst, Enterprise Risk Management, Japan within the GRC organization, is responsible for establishing the second line of defense for the Japan market. We are seeking an experienced risk leader to be a part of this exciting journey. The incumbent will be part of ERM team in Japan to identify, assess, measure, manage and report risk across all risk stripes and strengthen the risk governance structure for our Japan businesses.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop risk tolerance limits and establish risk appetite metrics and escalation thresholds for all major risk stripes in accordance with regulatory requirements, and risk appetite.
• Identify emerging risks in accordance with the risk appetite program
• Establish policies, practices, and other control mechanisms to manage key enterprise risks
• Monitor and report on aggregate risk profile, initiating appropriate actions to ensure adherence to risk appetite
• Provide oversight of internal control framework and management of risks
• Provide effective challenge through reviews of critical processes
• Maintain and continuously enhance Legal Entity Risk Management Framework
• Collaborate effectively with Credit and Fraud Risk, Compliance, GCO, Control Management, Treasury, Controllership and other stakeholders in the first line teams to ensure regulatory compliance and manage regulatory relationship and exams for safety & soundness related regulations
• Lead the functional oversight of risk management activities including the oversight of key risk-taking activities and core risk controls across AXP’s lines of businesses in Japan
• Provide oversight of Japan operations through the establishment and ongoing maintenance of an effective enterprise risk management program

Minimum Qualifications :

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