Analyst Data Governance & Management
American Express · Posted Oct 1
Banking, credit card, payment network, and travel services
Get a personal compatibility score
Add a resume for personal matches
About the role
The India Data Office at American Express shapes the future of data at American Express India, with this role focused on Risk Management within the team. The position supports identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of data risks, effective project governance, and the development of KRIs, dashboards, and management insights. The Analyst works with Business, Technology, Risk, Data Office, upstream data providers, and downstream users on data risk management, project governance, and management reporting across the India business.
What you will do
- Identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of data risks and issues.
- Effective project governance, tracking, escalation, and stakeholder reporting.
- Development of KRIs, dashboards, and management insights to monitor risk exposure, control performance, remediation, and program health.
- Support the Data Steward in proactively identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating data risks across business processes, systems, and data assets, applying Enterprise Data Risk Management policies, standards, and procedures.
- Identify, log, triage, manage, and report Data Concerns and incidents throughout their lifecycle, including root-cause analysis, remediation planning, escalation, and closure of audit and regulatory feedback.
- Maintain effective governance and traceability across RAID items, Data Concerns, Issues (EIM), and Operational Risk Events (OREs), ensuring appropriate linkage, escalation, remediation tracking, and closure.
- Support project planning and execution through milestone, dependency, risk, issue, and action tracking, providing timely stakeholder reporting and escalation to enable delivery of key objectives.
- Develop and maintain KRIs, risk thresholds, dashboards, and management reporting to monitor risk exposure, control performance, remediation progress, program health, milestones, and emerging risks, while supporting opportunities for automated monitoring and reporting.
- Partner with Business, Technology, Risk, Data Office, upstream data providers, and downstream users to resolve data issues, provide actionable risk insights, and strengthen data consistency, usability, governance, and risk management practices.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Degree in a quantitative area (e.g. Finance, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics and Engineering) is preferred.
- Minimum 2 year of experience in data management, data governance, operational risk, or issue/incident management.
- Proactive thinking and strong analytical skills.
- Strong ability to solve unstructured problems through data.
- Strong risk mindset and ability to collaborate
- Excellent critical thinking and attention to detail.
- Exceptional drive and commitment; ability to work and thrive in in fast changing, results driven environment; and proven ability in handling competing priorities.
- Proactive learner with the ability to quickly learn new concepts and techniques with minimal supervision.
- Strong understanding of data lifecycle principles, data quality concepts, lineage, and metadata.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate between various technical and non-technical audiences
- Knowledge of credit risk strategy and/or payments industry is a plus
Benefits and support
- 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
About American Express
American Express Company is a globally recognized multinational financial services corporation specializing in payment cards, travel-related services, and network banking. Founded in 1850, the company provides charge and credit cards, expense management products, and merchant services to consumers, small businesses, and large corporations worldwide. It operates a proprietary payments network known for its premium customer engagement and lifestyle rewards programs.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 76800 employees
- Founded
- 1850-03-18
- Location
- New York City, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
Chief Colleague Experience Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
Recent coverage
Business Travel Executive
American Express Launches 'Next Generation' of Amex Corporate2026-10-01
American Express IR
American Express Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend on Common Shares2026-09-28
American Express IR
American Express Reports Second-Quarter 2026 Financial Results2026-07-24