American Express
Manager -Digital Portfolio Mgmt
American Express, Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85003
Description
You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.
The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.
Focus
Digital Workplace is the convergence of digital, cultural, and physical elements that enable all American Express colleagues to do phenomenal work in a complex, dynamic, and often unstructured working environment.
The Portfolio Manager position is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished professional with strong financial acumen and portfolio management experience. In this role, you will be part of a team responsible for managing collaborative processes across Digital Workplace that provide financial transparency and deliver on financial targets.
This role will help lead our Portfolio Management efforts, ensuring proper oversight the Digital Workplace budgets and forecasts, along with accurate identification of risks and opportunities. This role will require continual partnership across Digital Workplace teams to understand and report on financial outcomes. In addition, the candidate will partner with key members of our team to lead efforts to drive efficiency within Digital Workplace programs and financial obligations.
Organizational Context
Responsible for the data held within the Enterprise Portfolio Management System for the portfolio supported.
Key Responsibilities
Create & maintain financial projections and ensure financial accuracy through monthly reconciliation, detailed analysis and working across Digital Workplace teams to comply with best practices
Enable cross-functional collaboration with relevant team
Collaborate effectively and build key relationships with other Product Managers, Product Owners, Change Management, Engineering Teams, and other Partner Programs and Application Teams to identify and manage dependencies and to solve problems creative
Build comprehensive financial models that enable strategic decision-making
Produce return on investment analyses and optimization recommendations
Support the Investment decision process, by providing provision of technology budgets and advice on prioritization and scheduling
Monitors the progress of the portfolio delivery and ensures timely and effective communication of the status and assessment of risks/issues
Promote Portfolio and Business Management best practice through formal and informal networks
Create compelling communication for leadership that highlights delivery of the portfolio against financial targets
Synthesize information from a variety of internal and external sources to improve and optimize approach and results
Align financial models within the larger budgeting and investment planning processes
Scope of Impact/Influence
Responsible for portfolios that may span a broad range of systems and enterprise-wide complex components
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in related field require
Knowledge/Skills
Minimum 3-5 years’ experience managing financial portfolio’s and/or budgets
Strong foundation and knowledge of accounting and finance
Proven strategic and analytical thought leadership and in a financial role and ability to translate complex strategies into meaningful financial models
Ability to continuously deliver results in a dynamic environment and navigate high levels of ambiguity comfortabl
Knowledge of financial tools and reporting platforms (SDLC, CPC, General Ledger, Clarity, SmartView, and Oracle).
Advanced MS Excel skills and highly proficient across MS Office applications
Must have excellent communication, relationship building and influencing skills
Self-starter who can function effectively within a diverse and globally dispersed team
Technology Core Competencies
Adaptive Communication
Agile Practices
Industry and Company Knowledge
Organizational Change Management
Technical Acumen
Technology Industry Trends
Game Changers
Adaptability
Collaboration & Teamwork
Continuous Improvement
Courage
Curiosity
Ingenuity
Servant Leadership
Tenacity
Role Core Competencies
Technical
SDLC Methodologies and Practices
Functional
Financial Management
Governance and Reporting
Portfolio Management
Portfolio, Program, Project Support
Project Management
Leadership
Consultancy
Relationship Management
Strategy Formulation
Business
Planning & Organization
Resourcing
Qualifications
Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
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
For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the “Know Your Rights” poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.
If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
Job: Technologies
Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24021941
You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.
The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.
Focus
Digital Workplace is the convergence of digital, cultural, and physical elements that enable all American Express colleagues to do phenomenal work in a complex, dynamic, and often unstructured working environment.
The Portfolio Manager position is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished professional with strong financial acumen and portfolio management experience. In this role, you will be part of a team responsible for managing collaborative processes across Digital Workplace that provide financial transparency and deliver on financial targets.
This role will help lead our Portfolio Management efforts, ensuring proper oversight the Digital Workplace budgets and forecasts, along with accurate identification of risks and opportunities. This role will require continual partnership across Digital Workplace teams to understand and report on financial outcomes. In addition, the candidate will partner with key members of our team to lead efforts to drive efficiency within Digital Workplace programs and financial obligations.
Organizational Context
Responsible for the data held within the Enterprise Portfolio Management System for the portfolio supported.
Key Responsibilities
Create & maintain financial projections and ensure financial accuracy through monthly reconciliation, detailed analysis and working across Digital Workplace teams to comply with best practices
Enable cross-functional collaboration with relevant team
Collaborate effectively and build key relationships with other Product Managers, Product Owners, Change Management, Engineering Teams, and other Partner Programs and Application Teams to identify and manage dependencies and to solve problems creative
Build comprehensive financial models that enable strategic decision-making
Produce return on investment analyses and optimization recommendations
Support the Investment decision process, by providing provision of technology budgets and advice on prioritization and scheduling
Monitors the progress of the portfolio delivery and ensures timely and effective communication of the status and assessment of risks/issues
Promote Portfolio and Business Management best practice through formal and informal networks
Create compelling communication for leadership that highlights delivery of the portfolio against financial targets
Synthesize information from a variety of internal and external sources to improve and optimize approach and results
Align financial models within the larger budgeting and investment planning processes
Scope of Impact/Influence
Responsible for portfolios that may span a broad range of systems and enterprise-wide complex components
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in related field require
Knowledge/Skills
Minimum 3-5 years’ experience managing financial portfolio’s and/or budgets
Strong foundation and knowledge of accounting and finance
Proven strategic and analytical thought leadership and in a financial role and ability to translate complex strategies into meaningful financial models
Ability to continuously deliver results in a dynamic environment and navigate high levels of ambiguity comfortabl
Knowledge of financial tools and reporting platforms (SDLC, CPC, General Ledger, Clarity, SmartView, and Oracle).
Advanced MS Excel skills and highly proficient across MS Office applications
Must have excellent communication, relationship building and influencing skills
Self-starter who can function effectively within a diverse and globally dispersed team
Technology Core Competencies
Adaptive Communication
Agile Practices
Industry and Company Knowledge
Organizational Change Management
Technical Acumen
Technology Industry Trends
Game Changers
Adaptability
Collaboration & Teamwork
Continuous Improvement
Courage
Curiosity
Ingenuity
Servant Leadership
Tenacity
Role Core Competencies
Technical
SDLC Methodologies and Practices
Functional
Financial Management
Governance and Reporting
Portfolio Management
Portfolio, Program, Project Support
Project Management
Leadership
Consultancy
Relationship Management
Strategy Formulation
Business
Planning & Organization
Resourcing
Qualifications
Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
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
For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the “Know Your Rights” poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.
If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
Job: Technologies
Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24021941