Senior Financial Analyst

4 weeks ago

Old Toronto Ontario, CA Amex Full time

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The Financial Analyst will be responsible for querying financial data repositories to source meaningful business drivers to support legal entity financials and variance analysis, support market controllership in complying with internal and external financial controls / governance requirements for regulated entities, and ensure completeness and accuracy of legal entity financials with strong knowledge of USGAAP / IFRS accounting standards.

The position requires working in a fast-paced environment and constantly changing priorities. Reports to Manager, Finance Integrity.

  • Prepare periodic financial reporting packages to senior management and quarterly financial update to external auditors.
  • Analyse new product constructs and create financial accounting and reporting requirements under USGAAP / IFRS. Support the launch of products and business initiatives by partnering with business and other stakeholders to advise on the financial accounting and reporting requirements.
  • Build data queries to source information from data repositories to support the legal entity financial results and explain the trending in the financial statements.
  • Responsible for triggering periodic cost centre validation process to assess cost centre activity to determine if the costs are eligible to be charged to other markets, partner with stakeholders as required to initiate an inter-company charge out process and follow up to ensure its completion.
  • Support external audits including reviewing the external audit requests with process owners, participating in meetings, working with the process areas to frame a response to the auditor, and monitoring, reporting and escalating the progress of audits.
  • Responsible for coordinating and reviewing the preparation of annual financial statements for external auditors including assessment of note disclosure requirements per applicable accounting standards.
  • Maintain an inventory of spreadsheets used by Market Controllership and perform testing of the same to ensure compliance with American Express spreadsheet control policy.
  • Perform internal control self-assessment by testing and reporting for processes owned by market controllership.
  • Responsible for completing and reporting on quarterly accounting governance and financial control dashboards.
  • Support in completing the annual Regulatory Compliance Management Review and Attestation for Controls owned by Market Controller to satisfy the regulatory compliance requirements.
  • Identify opportunities for process improvement and create efficiencies in monitoring the integrity and completeness of financial statements.
  • Perform other ad hoc financial reporting, analysis, and tasks as required.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Accounting designation (CA / CPA / CGA).
  • At least 3-5 years finance experience.
  • Strong knowledge of USGAAP and IFRS accounting standards and financial control principles and practices.
  • Hands-on experience extracting and transforming data from various systems and in various formats (SQL / Cornerstone / Yellowbrick / Lumi / Tableau etc.) and interacting with internal and external IT resources to understand data structures and underlying logic.
  • Proficiency in MS-Office applications (Advanced Excel skills) and Essbase/analytical software with ability to craft compelling graphs, tables, etc. in formats suitable for stakeholder presentations (in PowerPoint).
  • Must be a self-starter who can prioritize tasks and manage deadlines.
  • Strong data analytics and system controls skills with ability to interpret how these impact accounting and financial reporting processes.
  • Must be well organized, resourceful, curious, dependable, and detail-oriented.
  • Demonstrated critical thinking, complex problem-solving skills, and transformation mindset.
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
  • Ability to collaborate across geographies in a matrix structure and deliver on customer expectations.

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 committed to providing an inclusive and accessible work environment in which all people who apply for positions or who work for or on behalf of Amex are treated with dignity and respect and are provided with equal treatment with respect to employment, regardless of that person's age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, colour, ancestry, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, family status, pregnancy, disability, record of offences, social condition or origin, political beliefs, association or activity or other factors prohibited under applicable Human Rights legislation (the “Prohibited Grounds”). If you have a disability and need accommodation, please speak with the Recruiter for more information.

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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