Director

Director - Legal Entity Governance Job

This newly created position is charged with overseeing the American Express Legal Entity Governance Program and monitoring that the 200+ entities within American Express implement and adhere to the Program elements. The incumbent will be part of the newly created Legal Entity Governance Center of Excellence which is currently being recruited and will manage the program of monitoring, supporting and advising the organisation on matters relating to the governance of our individual entities. The Center of Excellence will act as the primary point of call for all legal entity issues and questions and will be composed of this position, a Vice President and a Manager position. This role will report to the VP ? Legal Entity Governance who will lead the Center of Excellence. American Express is an equal opportunity employer. Key responsibilities include: - Supporting the development and delivery of training relating to legal entity governance and the responsibilities of Amex employees as appropriate for their respective entity. - Implementing enhancements to the level of governance in specific companies within the American Express structure. - Supporting the completion of legal entity self-assessments in line with the American Express governance standards. - Supporting the VP ? Legal Entity Governance in collaborating with the control and compliance functions to raise awareness of legal entity issues as they arise. - Supporting the connection and flow of information from enterprise-wide decisions through to the individual legal entities. - Owning and updating the Governance Standards in line with changes in the regulatory environment. - Owning the legal entity risk assessment framework and keeping it current through working with the individual legal entities. - Sharing best practices between individual legal entities by taking practical tools and processes and replicating them in other entities. - Adopting learnings from legal entity governance audits performed by IAG into the standards themselves and the tools and processes operated by individual legal entities. Required skills, experience and qualifications: - Extensive practical knowledge and experience of governance over subsidiary legal entities within a large multinational corporation. - Detailed knowledge of the key laws and regulations that a Bank Holding Company operating in multiple jurisdictions has to operate under. - Experience of working within the US and other international markets. - Excellent English communication presentation skills to interact effectively at all levels of the organization. - Managing projects and processes involving multiple stakeholders where influencing has been key to success. - Ability to drive results and deliver change at the tactical level without losing sight of the wider strategic objective. Desired skills, experience and qualifications: - Experience working within control and/or compliance functions within large, multinational organizations. - Experience with banking operations including interaction with regulators and/or other external stakeholders. - Experience and direct responsibility for legal entity oversight, financial accounting or compliance. - Experience in auditing against policies, standards or regulatory requirements.