**Description**

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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.

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**Description:**

This Vice President role is an amazing opportunity to lead a group of high-performing colleagues responsible to develop and execute in-depth data analytics, modelling and visualizations to support of Enterprise insights. This position is sits on the Finance Data Science & Analytics (DS&A) Leadership Team and includes ownership for several spend-related dashboards and ML models along with oversight for a small R&D team.

This position affords the opportunity to influence how strategic decisions are made at senior levels of American Express, providing actionable insights and recommendations. This is a hybrid role based at the Amex Tower in New York City.

**Responsibilities:**

Create, maintain and improve critical spend dashboards including all required data access / controls

Maintain and enrich infrastructure to improve data quality, reporting tools, and other operational efficiencies for dashboards and other data analysis / modelling processes

Develop and / or enhance machine learning modelling techniques to forecast spend, lend and other metrics which sit within the teams purview

Ensure robust data governance and sound model governance practices, including on-going model monitoring and other associated activities [e.g., hyperparameter tunning, model interpretability and robust documentation], collaborating with 2nd Line / MRMG and 3rd Line / IAG on all requirements

Play the role of strategic advisors as the expert on spend trends, converging data [e.g., multivariate analyses] to parse weak signals and get ahead of inflection points

Propose and implement solutions to ad-hoc business problems, working independently to leverage data and drive novel insights

Evaluate additional use cases for Lumi platform through testing to identify opportunities to capitalize on performance and functionality of cloud-based data

Strengthen partnerships with EFP&A, IR, and BU LFO teams by continuing to: collaborate with BU LFO teams on strategic business questions; support the EFP&A team in managing the Enterprise P&L; and share trends / insights with IR for potential external messaging

Continue evolution from execution-oriented to an insight-enabled operating model while investing time to increase business acumen across all colleagues

Attract and retain top talent while elevating the performance of our highly specialized team of data scientists, in line with our overall talent strategy

**Qualifications:**

Solid understanding of card economics and overall AXP business model

Ability to lead a team in driving multiple initiatives concurrently while adhering to strict deadlines

Comfort thriving in more of a whitespace role where there is an obligation to continually drive new ideas independently

Proficiency in dealing with large quantities of complex data and ability to derive actionable insights from those data

Demonstrated experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences, bridging the gap between academic outputs and real-world applications

Proven track record in the data science domain and / or experience developing and implementing complex [e.g., machine learning / AI] models

Experience in leading highly analytical teams and demonstrated ability to elevate talent and drive continuous learning

Prior experience or exposureto Power BI or other visualization tools [e.g., development, implementation, maintenance] strongly preferred

B.S. / M.S. or Ph.D. in a quantitative field [e.g., Applied Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science] strongly preferred

Ability to deepen trust-based relationships across a variety of stakeholders and levels across the Enterprise and thrive in a fast-paced environment

**Qualifications**

Salary Range: $185,000.00 to $260,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) 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.

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

6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

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

20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

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.

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**Job:** Executive

**Primary Location:** US-New York-New York

**Schedule** Full-time

**Req ID:** 24006302