Teams at American Express

Conduct sanctions and politically exposed persons screening using Bridger 5x, perform enhanced due diligence and investigative research, and collaborate with business lines and compliance teams. The role supports financial crimes compliance by identifying sanctioned entities, PEPs, and potentially suspicious activity while maintaining accurate analysis and documentation. Responsibilities require strong research, analytical, writing, communication, and multitasking skills, along with familiarity with Dow Jones, LexisNexis, and American Express internal systems.

Investigate and adjudicate sanctions screening alerts, escalations, and AML referrals; analyze potential OFAC matches; manage watchlists, metrics, SLAs, account actions, and regulatory reporting. The role supports sanctions controls, identifies compliance issues, conducts investigations, prepares block and reject reports, and partners with business, legal, operations, and compliance stakeholders.

Leads the Internal Audit Group’s Quality Assurance and Improvement Program and Issue Validation Quality Control framework. Oversees risk-based reviews, audit quality assessments, remediation validation, regulatory engagement, reporting, continuous improvement, and external quality assessments. Advises senior leaders and governance committees, challenges issue closures, monitors regulatory expectations, and develops a high-performing team of audit professionals.