Senior Lead Analyst

Function Description:

 

Finance is a collaborative team, playing a key role in advising all areas of the business. We have a strategic seat at the table and our unique insights are valued in a highly competitive marketplace and increasingly complex global regulatory environment.

 

This team collaborates globally to deliver expert accounting, reporting & advisory services, and financial risk control & governance, while supporting business growth & protecting shareholder value.

Responsibilities

• • Responsible for managing monthly accounting for various legal entities ensuring monthly journal entry (MJE) protocol to meet compliance, completeness & accuracy standards.
  • Responsible for compliance with internal service level agreements (SLA), guidelines and accounting policies and regulatory requirements of the process
  • End to end ownership of key enterprise financial processes like Merchant Withholding Tax, Staff Group accounting
  • Deploy internal accounting & external reporting implications of new & amended accounting standards
  • Real Time Analysis of Legal Entity Results, identification of anomalies during close leading up to results submission to Street
  • Support / participate in standardization, automation and continuous improvement initiatives as well as other business partner initiatives
  • Maintain high accuracy and productivity standards
  • Awareness of the AXP Legal and alternate hierarchies, accounting close governance & consolidations
  • Maintain close contact with customer / business partners and other interface groups to ensure a smooth service delivery
  • Stakeholder relationship management
  • Ensure controls & compliance with prevailing policies & procedures such as SOX, Process Risk Self Assessment (PRSA), etc.
  • Ensure that all deadlines are continually met and adequate controls are maintained over the processes to ensure integrity of the information
  • Ability to work across multiple time zones
  • Leading accounting & reporting financial processes as per the aligned SLA’s for creation of complete & accurate financial statements

Qualifications

• Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):

  Business Outcomes:

  • Own & maintain financial/data integrity while managing end-to-end global accounting processes
  • Stay relevant to the business/functional requirements
  • Pro-actively develop meaningful data insights/trends to enable finance decision support to our customer’s/business partners for more effective planning & forecasting activities.
  • Understand & leverage intelligent automation technologies to generate use cases within the team & create opportunities to support the automation team to get that implemented .
  • Ensure first pass yield

  Leadership Outcomes:

  • Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.
  • Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings
  • Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity
  • Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the world’s best customer experiences every day

  Skills/Capabilities:

  Functional

  • Strong understanding of end-to-end AR/AP process flow, accounting & reconciliation
  • Basic understanding of reporting
  • Ability to connect accounting & reporting
  • Understanding of financial consolidation process
  • Understanding of operational, SOX & other related control framework compliance
  • Ability to research & embed relevant best practices

   Preferred:

  • Techno finance skills

  Technical

  • Awareness of US GAAP/Local GAAP/IFRS (Accounting knowledge)
  • Analytical skills with the ability to undertake cause effect analysis
  • Knowledge of financial systems Preferred:
  • Basic understanding & appreciation of automation capabilities
  • Understanding of business products

  Platforms

  • Advanced MS office suits such as Excel, Word, Power point

  Preferred:

  • Ability to use analytical tools for financial systems such as Oracle, IRIS, OBIEE, Essbase, Hyperion Financial Reporting (HFR), etc.

  Behavioral:

  Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

  • Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective
  • Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential
  •  Do It The Right Way:

  Compliance Language

  Academic Background:

  • Graduate / Post-Graduate in Commerce with 2-5 years of relevant experience

   

  Past Experience:

  • 2-5 years of past experience in financial accounting domain with knowledge of Oracle/ERP, card business model.
  • Strong English Language skills (both written and verbal)