Hiring: Manager-Compliance Company: American Express Location: Charlotte, NC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 02:13:23 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Compliance, Express, ServiceNow About the job Required Skills: •Own and maintain the GFCC Data Governance Standard, including its ongoing evolution to meet regulatory and enterprise policy requirements. •Build and maintain the GFCC critical data element (CDE) register and fit-for-purpose specification cards for GFCC’s priority capabilities, including transaction monitoring. •Own the GFCC issue management framework end-to-end: tracking mechanisms, severity model, escalation channels (including channels specific to transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and customer due diligence per the Standard), and coordination with the DMO’s tracking log. •Maintain the GFCC model and non-model data inventory in coordination with GRC Data Science and Model Risk Management, including source-system mapping and support for independent model validation requirements. •Coordinate directly with the DMO, Data Executives, Data Stewards, Data Custodians, and Business Process Owners to track remediation of data quality issues affecting GFCC systems, risk assessments, and KRI/KPI reporting. •Partner closely with GFCC leadership, GRC Product, GRC Data Science, AET Engineering, Internal Audit, and Model Risk Management to ensure the governance standard and issue framework are understood, adopted, and complied with across all three lines of defense. •Represent the governance and issue-management program in cross-functional forums, standing up and running the governance review cadence. •Partner closely with the ]Product, Technology, Data Science and other key stakeholders to execute the Financial Crimes data strategy. Qualifications: •Direct experience authoring or operating a data governance standard, data quality framework, or issue management program within a regulated financial institution. •Demonstrated ability to work independently, drive a program from framework to operational reality, and coordinate across multiple stakeholder organizations without direct authority over them. •Practical experience utilizing data governance/quality tooling and GRC platforms (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Archer, ServiceNow IRM, or similar). •Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write standards and specifications that survive both a business review and a regulatory exam. •Strong organizational skills and comfort operating in an ambiguous, newly-formed organization without fully mature processes in place. •Prior second-line (risk, compliance, or audit) experience specifically. •Operational familiarity with regulatory examination processes (FFIEC, OCC, or equivalent) and how governance artifacts are evaluated during exams. •Solid functional working knowledge of AML/BSA, sanctions, or financial crimes compliance domain sufficient to engage credibly with compliance SMEs (prior direct AML experience preferred but not required if governance/regulated-data background is strong). •Experience building, supporting, governing or working with enterprise data platforms. •Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!