At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
**1. Strategic Compliance Leadership & Risk Culture**:
Senior Compliance Managers are responsible for identifying, assessing, controlling, measuring, monitoring, and reporting compliance AML and Sanctions program risks, and for providing compliance training throughout the organization to appropriately control the heightened level and complexity of compliance risk.
Compliance is an engaged and active partner protecting the brand and customers through strategic risk-based principles in accordance with regulations to achieve business objectives and enable enterprise growth.
Facilitate the development of a strong risk culture throughout the organization, develop consistent engagement with business partners as trusted advisors and increase collaboration across Integral Risk and Compliance to share expertise and guidance to achieve business objectives in accordance with relevant regulations.
Build strong regulatory relationships and leverage regulatory expertise to ensure an effective control environment.
Leverage technology, automation and analytics to enable agile decision making.
**2.



Role Purpose - Mexico AML & Sanctions Oversight**:
This position is responsible for assisting the MCO in the development and maintenance of an effective AML legal compliance program consistent with local market and U.S. sanctions legal requirements and American Express Company Compliance programs/policies within the business units operating in Mexico.
A Compliance Manager is responsible for ensuring that an organization adheres to applicable laws, regulations, internal policies, and ethical standards. This role is critical for minimizing legal, regulatory, and reputational risks.
Impact on results that this position must generate:
Risk management and potential impacts avoidance arising from violations of, or failure to conform to or comply with, Law(s) and/or Regulation(s), internal policies and procedures and related practices, or ethical standards.
Cover through preventive and detective controls, effective challenge and oversight, potential fines, civil money penalties, payment of damages, the voiding of contracts, damage to reputation, reduce franchise/enterprise value, limit business opportunities, reduce expansion potential, and harm ability to enforce contracts. Compliance coverage of risks also includes risk to consumers, which is the potential for consumers to suffer economic loss or other legally cognizable injury as a result of a violation of applicable laws.
**3. Core Responsibilities**:




**AML & Sanctions Program Oversight**:
- Assist the Compliance Director in the development and maintenance of an effective compliance AML and Sanctions program, consistent with local market legal requirements and American Express Compliance programs and policies within the business units, and legal entities operating in Mexico.
- Responsible for Compliance AML Program in Mexico, covering activities like RCM, CRA, Issue Management, Transaction Monitoring, Regulatory Reporting, Subpoenas and Information requirements, etc.
- Responsible for an effective Regulatory Change Management Program from a AML Compliance program standpoint, in adherence to Company guidance and standard procedures.
**Regulatory, Audit & Governance**:
- Experience as primary point of contact for regulators, auditors, and senior governance forums.
- Regulatory and audit exams administration expertise.
- Timely escalation of identified compliance risks to MCO.
- Support the preparation of internal and regulatory reports.
- Support MCO in taking appropriate steps to assure that compliance issues are regularly monitored and audited.
- Provide periodic or other reports to the MCO upon request.
- Provide such administrative oversight as is necessary to effectively document compliance activity.
- Maintain accurate and complete data or other records of compliance activities, in a form to be agreed with the MCO, so that compliance-related information is readily available in a comprehensive and uniform manner.
**Monitoring, Investigation & Reporting**:
- Ensure appropriate interpretation of AML cases to support MCO in decision making process regarding suspicious activity accounts.
- Ensure analytical approach and thought leadership to p

📌 Sr Mgr-compliance (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Amex
📍 Ciudad de México