Risk Manager, EMEA Airline Portfolio - London

<p><b>Risk Manager, EMEA Airline Portfolio</b></p> <p><br /> American Express is a global service company, providing customers with exceptional access to products and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.</p> <p>Each day, we make it easier, safer and more rewarding for consumers and businesses to purchase the things they need and for merchants to sell their goods and services, enabling them to do and achieve more.</p> <p>We’re committed to becoming the world’s most respected service brand and daily deliver extraordinary service to our customers, constantly reinventing our ways of working to ensure we offer rich rewards that redefine expectations for our clients and ourselves.</p> <p>An extremely exciting opportunity has arisen within the Global Merchant Services Risk team responsible for the managing the Airline portfolio across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Merchant Risk Managers are on the front line, protecting the merchant business P&amp;L from loss, while carefully balancing the merchant relationship with Amex.</p> <p>They are curious, analytical, motivated and strategic thinkers, who can both dive into numeric financial details while still being able to conduct negotiations with C-Suite executives across a variety of industries.</p> <p>The successful candidate will have responsibility for managing billions of dollars in credit risk exposure, managing challenging negotiations with top Airline executives and performing in-depth analysis.</p> <p>This role requires strong thought leadership, institutional credit risk analysis and customer facing negotiations that will strengthen American Express’s competitive advantage and brand promise in the market.&nbsp;</p> <p>Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.</p> <p><br /> <strong>Required skills:</strong></p> <p>The successful candidate will be able to work under their own initiative and be able to problem solve in times of fast changing priorities. Whilst striving for work life balance the role will demand some flexibility due to the global nature of the wider team. Importantly, you must be passionate about what you do, proud about what you deliver and be prepared to go the extra mile to make a difference.</p> <p>The following qualifications are desired:</p> <ul> <li>Previous Merchant Acquiring Risk, Client Management or Commercial Credit Underwriting experience</li> <li>Airline / Travel industry experience</li> <li>Strong financial and analytical acumen, financial credit and/or accounting knowledge, comfort with numbers, excel and financial statements is a must</li> <li>Very strong negotiation and communication skills, both verbal and written</li> <li>Ability to confidently present complex credit metrics to CFO and CEOs of multi-million dollar companies</li> <li>Demonstrated relationship building skills and experience managing multiple stakeholders</li> <li>Self-starter able to navigate a dynamic environment and make decisions using ambiguous information at times</li> <li>Creative thinker who thrives on finding unique solutions, particularly in workout scenarios, which enable all parties to “win”</li> <li>Knowledge of SQL, Terradata or SAS is advantageous</li> <li>MBA, CFA or equivalent</li> <li>Fluency in other European foreign languages is desirable&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>We place great importance on doing what is right, what is best and what is innovative. And we continue seeking people to champion these values and beliefs as we grow. The world’s a big place, filled with big ideas and amazing people. And we want the best of them here at American Express. We’re interested in where you came from, but we’re even more excited about where you will go with American Express.</p> <p>To complete your application <strong>please click on the 'Apply' button.</strong> However, if you require any assistance with the completion of this process -&nbsp;or need any reasonable adjustments to be made -&nbsp;then please contact the Recruitment Team on&nbsp;<a href="mailto:recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com" rel="no-follow">recruitment.support.uk@aexp.com</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;00800 83 000038 (for Russia based candidates 810 800 83 000038).</p> <p>To apply, please follow this link to the American Express careers site and complete an online application&nbsp;<strong>by clicking on the 'Apply' button.</strong></p> <p><br /> ReqID: <strong>16012588</strong></p>