Sr Financial Analyst

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

This role is responsible for supporting activities related to the accounting and integrity of US GAAP and MEX GAAP P&L and Balance Sheet, Financial Statements Preparation, collaborate with External and Internal Audits requirements and provide accounting guidance to Business on their initiatives and projects.

Main Responsibilities include:

• Participate in projects, initiatives and issues remediation to help Business.
• Provide support to the leader analyzing year over year and month over month P&L variances and their explanation, raising potential issues impacting Business and Financials.
• Prepare manual journal entries ensuring compliance with MJE protocol.
• Support the preparation of financial statements.
• Develop spreadsheets and working papers required for projections, financial statements, variance analysis, reports, etc., looking for automation and enhancement opportunities.
• Prepare, extract and summarize financial information required for analysis and presentations.
• Participation and support in statutory (PwC), IAG and Tax audits.
• Support Manager in the completion of ongoing projects and deliverables as required.
• Monitor monthly activity, entries and trends to timely identify, raise and follow up on potential missing or wrong entries, risk controls and broken processes.
• Prepare, extract and summarize financial information required for deliverables to government and agencies (Tax authorities, Ministry of Economy, INEGI, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent.
- Up to date experience in US GAAP and MEX GAAP.
- Strong financial, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Fluent in English.
- Strong knowledge in excel and MS Office.
- Ability to collaborate across geographies in a matrix structure and deliver on customer expectations, being flexible to acquire additional responsibilities, job rotation and help the rest of the team.

Preferred Qualifications

• SQL/programming is preferred.
• Experience working with Oracle GL.
• Experience in Hyperion platforms (TM1, Smartview, etc.), Power Query and Power BI is a plus.

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

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