Manager-Business Planning

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

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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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Responsibilities-

• Comprehensive financial planning for India ICS business, including forecasting key business drivers such as Billings, NCA, Attrition and for key P&L 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 P&L 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 P&L 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/ FP&A 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.

Compliance Language

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

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.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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

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.