Manager-Business Planning

Job Description

Responsibilities-

Comprehensive financial planning for India ICS business, including forecasting key business drivers such as Billings, NCA, Attrition and for key PL report lines including card fees, cost of card member services, marketing, etc. and help devising annual and long-range plans. The comprehensive financial planning includes indicating the projected performance of ICS business in India market over a future calendar year(s) thus reflecting the potential that India market has for AXP.

Supporting the Investment Optimization vertical, working with Acquisition teams and IO central teams on devising right channel and product mix strategy, tracking, monitoring key matrices such as NAA, TUFI, BBA, CPAs, for the market.

Support Planning for Investment Optimization Top Down, Bottoms up Submission, CMV refresh, along-with leading quarterly reviews and performing deep-dives on Quarterly actualization process.

Review of Quarterly Consumer Product PL and share key financial insights with Senior leadership and business partners.

Providing consultative and independent finance decision support to business heads on various initiatives and CBAs such as new product launches, existing product refreshes, acquisition dynamics and strategic marketing campaigns to drive growth in the market.

Detailed review of the ICS PL along with variance analysis and identifying key trends such as increasing costs and help business remediate it.

Drive the variance analysis of financials and key indicators and ensure major variances are researched and accounted for prior to monthly senior management business unit reviews.

Drive and support Control Governance activities for ICS India LFO including compliance with Spreadsheet Controls policy, PRSA certification, review of OREs, BCP and BIA assessment etc.

Support Legal Entity Financial result updates for Quarterly AEBC Board, CEC and NYSDFS

Minimum Qualifications

10-12 years of work experience in Finance decision support/ FPA or equivalent role.

Chartered Accountant, MBA or equivalent professional experience

Functional Skills/Capabilities

- In-depth understanding of Amex businesses
- Demonstrated ability to develop sophisticated financial models and draw value-add insights from large amounts of financial data
- Knowledge of data mining and analytics languages / techniques [e.g., SQL , Python, SAS] preferred to extract data from cornerstone/LUMI for analytics

Technical skills

- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Knowledge of accounting processes and systems (TM1, Oracle, etc.,)
- Working knowledge of Data analytics platforms like Cornerstone, LUMI and visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI

Behavior Skills/Capabilities

Strong communication skills, both written and oral; ability to interact with and build consensus across multiple levels of the organization

Demonstrated ability to solve unstructured problem statements and handle ambiguity

Demonstrated ability to partner and collaborate with senior executives and cross-functional teams and understand key business issues and concerns from multiple perspectives

Experience of managing people would be an added advantage

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.

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

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