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 International Co-Brand & Business Development Finance Team (IBD Finance) is a highly respected decision support team that works closely with multiple business partners to provide consultative finance support for Co-Brand and Membership Rewards deals, portfolio acquisitions, market optimization and other types of business development initiatives across International markets.

Based in London, this role will provide an opportunity to contribute to some of the most strategic partnerships in the ICS organization, interact with a wide range of senior executives in both Business and Finance, and develop analytical and value-added recommendations that have tangible impact on business decisions and overall company performance.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Developing business cases, sensitivity analyses and risk assessment for Co-Brand and MR deals, portfolio acquisitions/migrations, and other types of business development initiatives

• Working with the business to identify critical business questions, frame the correct analyses to make decisions, and rapidly drive those analyses to closure

• Performing valuation, financial analysis, and due diligence on potential credit card portfolio acquisitions or market optimization initiatives

• Using best practice data science to improve assumptions and insights including modelling assumptions, understanding portfolio profitability, vintage assumptions, etc.

• Providing high quality strategic & conceptual thinking and analysis to help business partners structure and negotiate commercial offers with external partners

• Partnering with Finance colleagues in the International Card Services and Merchant businesses, as well as counterparts in Controllership, Taxation and Treasury, to ensure business cases include all cross-LOB, legal entity, taxation, foreign exchange and funding considerations

• Presenting commercial proposals and financial projections to senior business and finance leaders for approval, interacting with senior management across ICS, ensuring consistency of output and analysis

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong analytical skillset and ability to develop and enhance complex financial models, advanced Excel and modelling skills required, coding skills (e.g. SQL) are a significant advantage

• Excellent communication, influencing and presentation skills, with the ability to identify and communicate key insights succinctly

• Ability to develop solid working relationships with finance colleagues and senior business stakeholders from diverse cultures

• Ability to work independently under pressure and deliver strong & accurate results

• Good commercial acumen, sense of personal excellence and accountability

• Good understanding of payments industry, consumer card economics, valuation principles/methodologies

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

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: United Kingdom-London-London

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 24007163