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The Lending Finance team provides strategic and financial analysis to help develop the right products, lending capabilities, and customer treatments that grow our share of spend and lend in the marketplace. We achieve this goal through a broad set of activities, such as deep financial analysis of our existing cardmember base; analysis of the industry and specific competitors; and detailed financial sizing of new card products, product refreshes, lending capabilities, acquisition offers, or customer treatments. We rely on strong cross-functional collaboration with the product, marketing, pricing, risk, and finance teams for the Global Consumer Services business. This is a high visibility role with a focus on some of the most important initiatives in one of the largest segments of American Express.
The candidate will provide strategic and financial thought leadership for Customer Lending, Pricing, PLAN IT and the Pay Over Time portfolio.
Responsibilities:
Own the end-to-end financial analysis of initiatives such as new lending capabilities, acquisition strategy, organic growth initiatives, and profitability analyses of the portfolio
Proactively work with the business to identify the critical business questions, frame the correct analyses to make decisions, and rapidly drive those analyses to closure
Develop and maintain strong relationships with partners in Product, Marketing, Risk, Pricing, Finance and other functions
Develop actionable recommendations on strategic questions at hand, effectively communicate complex ideas, and actively seek to drive the strategy of the business
Develop and maintain deep understanding of the competitive environment, and our competitive positioning
Qualifications:
5+ related experience preferred
MBA or related graduate degree preferred
Experience with IDN, SQL and/or SAS highly preferred
Strong content expert in lending, with an excellent understanding of credit risk, provision, pricing, and customer behavior on lending products
Ability to articulate complex ideas with brevity, simplicity and impact
Relationship leadership and collaboration across a wide network of matrixed relationships, relationship management skills required
Natural strategic mindset or “business intuition” – ability to step back from the numbers and consider the analysis from multiple points of view, decision analysis and support skillset required
Ability to handle high pressure environment with aggressive deadlines while balancing multiple priorities and customers
Quantitatively oriented and very numerate – comfortable with thinking through the “quick math”
High energy, proactive instinct
Ability to balance attention to detail and accuracy with tight deadlines
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