American Express
Campus Undergraduate - 2025 Finance Summer Internship New York, NY
American Express, New York, New York, us, 10261
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.
Business Unit/Role Specific Info
The internship will be a general Finance internship that will provide opportunities to intern in one of the following functional areas of Finance: Corporate Planning & Analysis, Global Commercial Services Finance, US Consumer & International Card Services , Global Merchant and Network Finance, Controllership, Global Treasury, and Investor Relations.
How will you make an impact in this role?
All interns receive a project solving a real business challenge for the organization. Examples of past projects include:
Maximizing big data and SQL to understand American Express Card Member spending behavior in certain industries, across different markets and among certain merchants to ascertain growth opportunities
Business-to-Business (B2B) Industry Overview and recommendation of potential acquisition targets across markets
Assessing the efficiency of acquiring US Consumer Card Members through the Direct Mail acquisition channel
Creation of prototype to enable financial analysis on mobile products
Analysis of the profitability of our U.S. Small Merchants
Enhancements to Comprehensive Capital Analysis & Review (CCAR) Stress Testing Analytics as part of annual Federal Reserve Board submission
This position will be based in New York, NY
Minimum Qualifications
Currently enrolled in a full-time bachelor’s degree program
Students must have a graduation date between December 2025 and June 2026.
Preferred Qualifications
Analytical Skills – ability to manipulate large amounts of data, spot trends & generate relevant insights
Communication Skills – synthesize data into an easy-to-understand story & articulate key messages across multiple audiences.
Agile Mentality – positive, can-do attitude, adapt to change, and highly motivated self-starter
Leadership – act & lead with courage, form relationships, make decisions quickly & influence change
Our team will review completed applications on a rolling basis. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application and will be in contact with you
Qualifications
Salary Range: $24.05 to $63.00 hourly sign-on bonus
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.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
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
Flexible work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counselling 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.
Job: Campus
Primary Location: US-New York-New York
Schedule Full-time
Tags USUndergrad, Handshake UNV-12520
Req ID: 24013684
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.
Business Unit/Role Specific Info
The internship will be a general Finance internship that will provide opportunities to intern in one of the following functional areas of Finance: Corporate Planning & Analysis, Global Commercial Services Finance, US Consumer & International Card Services , Global Merchant and Network Finance, Controllership, Global Treasury, and Investor Relations.
How will you make an impact in this role?
All interns receive a project solving a real business challenge for the organization. Examples of past projects include:
Maximizing big data and SQL to understand American Express Card Member spending behavior in certain industries, across different markets and among certain merchants to ascertain growth opportunities
Business-to-Business (B2B) Industry Overview and recommendation of potential acquisition targets across markets
Assessing the efficiency of acquiring US Consumer Card Members through the Direct Mail acquisition channel
Creation of prototype to enable financial analysis on mobile products
Analysis of the profitability of our U.S. Small Merchants
Enhancements to Comprehensive Capital Analysis & Review (CCAR) Stress Testing Analytics as part of annual Federal Reserve Board submission
This position will be based in New York, NY
Minimum Qualifications
Currently enrolled in a full-time bachelor’s degree program
Students must have a graduation date between December 2025 and June 2026.
Preferred Qualifications
Analytical Skills – ability to manipulate large amounts of data, spot trends & generate relevant insights
Communication Skills – synthesize data into an easy-to-understand story & articulate key messages across multiple audiences.
Agile Mentality – positive, can-do attitude, adapt to change, and highly motivated self-starter
Leadership – act & lead with courage, form relationships, make decisions quickly & influence change
Our team will review completed applications on a rolling basis. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application and will be in contact with you
Qualifications
Salary Range: $24.05 to $63.00 hourly sign-on bonus
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.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
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
Flexible work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counselling 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.
Job: Campus
Primary Location: US-New York-New York
Schedule Full-time
Tags USUndergrad, Handshake UNV-12520
Req ID: 24013684