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.
Analytics & Risk Management
How we serve our customers is constantly evolving and is a challenge we gladly accept. Whether you're finding new ways to prevent identity fraud or enabling customers to start a new business, you can work with one of the most valuable data sets in the world to identify insights and actions that can have an important impact on our customers and our business. And, with opportunities to learn from leaders who have defined the course of our industry, you can grow your career and define your own path. Find your place in risk management on #TeamAmex.
Role Specific Information
A single decision can have many outcomes, and when that decision affects hundreds of thousands of customers and employees, it needs to be the right one. That's where Credit and Fraud Risk comes in.
At American Express, Risk Management forms the backbone of all financial services operations. It affects every aspect of the company globally. Join us this summer, and you'll get to know all the areas of our business - from consumer cards to small-business services, corporate services, and merchant partners. Plus, you'll work with the industry's top Risk Management teams, developing strategies, leveraging Machine Learning and overseeing how recent news events impacts our customers. Positions in Risk Management lead the development of credit, operational, enterprise, and fraud policies designed to profitably grow the portfolio, while ensuring excellent customer experience. These policies utilize mathematical models and other techniques to understand and predict customer behavior. At the analyst level, the employee is beginning to develop expertise in the field. Receives general instruction on moderately complex problems and issues.
Our well-established Summer Internship Programme will provide candidates with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in projects that have strategic, operational, and financial significance to the company. Interns will have the opportunity to work on a challenging project, with an opportunity to learn about the culture and values of American Express, as well as network across regions and functions.
Skills/Experience
- Strong analytical, project management, relationship, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills, this position collaborates with diverse stakeholders, including marketing, sales, operations, business partners as well as external vendors
- Ability to effectively implement initiatives through partnerships and alignment with multiple stakeholders
- Effective team player and ability to manage multiple responsibilities
Requirements/Qualifications
- Currently enrolled in a full-time undergraduate degree programme (degree in quantitative field or equivalent experience such as business, finance, statistics, economics, science, engineering, or mathematics) in your penultimate year of study. Students must graduate in 2026
- Experience in Python/ SQL/ R /Hive or other statistical programming experience is preferred along with working knowledge of MS Office
- Students must graduate between June - September 2026
In order for your application to be considered, please complete the below steps:
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3. Complete and submit your application
Our team will review completed applications on a rolling basis. We would encourage you submit your applications early as applications may close before the deadline. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application and will be in contact with you by 3rd December 2024. The deadline for applications is 11th November 2024.
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
- 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
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
