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American Express

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10,000+ employees

🏦 Banking

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

Banking • Finance • B2B

American Express is a global financial services company that issues consumer, business, and corporate credit cards, operates payment and merchant services, and offers banking products such as savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and personal loans. It provides rewards and travel programs, corporate and B2B payment solutions, financial education and security services, and extensive cardmember and merchant support.

📋 Description

• Regulatory and policy advice and strategic support with an emphasis on a wide range of regulatory matters, including regulation related to payments systems, competition law, and financial services, and other materially relevant policy developments affecting payments globally, such as digital, data and consumer policy developments. • Monitoring regulatory policy and competition law developments relating to financial services, payment services, payment schemes and adjacent sectors through internal, external and desktop resources and reporting these developments internally. • Feeding regional updates into quarterly payments reports and other periodic reports in related bespoke areas. • Advising on the strategic implications of emerging legal and policy developments affecting the company and competition law driven payments regimes, drawing from experience of global developments. • Assisting in the development of American Express strategy in response to and anticipation of regulatory developments in the payments industry. • Partnering with colleagues in Government Affairs and across the GCO on external engagement efforts to ensure regulation is proportionately tailored according to different business models. • Building positive working relationships with relevant policy makers through attending meetings with policymakers and participating in legal and industry groups. Responding to public policy consultations and supporting regulatory engagement on key developments. • Liaising with other industry participants on regulatory developments including in trade associations and industry bodies. • Interfacing with local regulators on various matters related to Amex activities in LAC. • Drafting and review of regulatory responses as a result of the interface with local regulators. • Carrying out legal research. • Managing databases and omni-channel forms of communicating policy updates. Managing, implementing, and improving methods for legal knowledge management within the team. Suggesting process improvements. • Briefing colleagues and clients on significant developments and projects. • Preparing and supporting delivery of internal training as appropriate. • Managing related legal budgets and subscription serves. • Leading projects and assisting more senior lawyers. • Attending relevant training courses and conferences. • Supporting the work of the Global Legal Policy and Strategy function, as required. A keen interest in thinking creatively about how to make our research and horizon scanning visible, readily accessible and appealing to senior management.

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified to practice law and provide legal advice in Brazil and/or other countries in the LAC region, with relevant post-qualification experience in the policy and regulatory areas the role will cover. • Experience in payments industry regulation and competition law is desirable and familiarity with one or more of the following areas would be helpful: payment services and payment schemes. • Experience in and a demonstrated aptitude for identifying, interpreting, and communicating relevant policy trends and regulatory developments (including for technically complex regulation) in a number of these areas to different stakeholders, in the context of the company’s commercial strategy. • We would encourage applications from candidates with a range of diverse backgrounds preferably from in house legal teams, private practice, or external policy reporting organizations. • Fluency in Portuguese, Spanish and English along with local law competency in Brazil. Additional local law competency across the region is a bonus. • Solid drafting, research, and negotiation/influencing skills. • Strong collaborative and team working skills, as well as self-leadership. • Skilled at multi-tasking – able to manage and prioritize a wide variety of matters and client contacts at once • Good PowerPoint skills and ability to present complex concepts succinctly and visually. • Project and process-management skills - strong knowledge-management and organizational skills, and willingness to help identify and implement improvements in work process to enhance efficiency and productivity. • High engagement – passionate about payments and regulatory matters. • Commercial focus – able to interpret and apply regulation in a practical, hands-on, common sense manner. • Strong communication skills – personable, able to communicate clearly, concisely, effectively, and persuasively with clients, all levels of business, legal management, and external regulators. • Prepared to take the lead and make appropriate recommendations to management. • Comfortable with speaking up in meetings and briefing stakeholders orally and in writing. • Adaptable and collaborative - able and willing to work both as part of a team and independently. • Willingness to learn and grow - willing to learn about business sectors relevant to American Express as well as the applicable regulatory environment and to leverage experience gained in this position to expand skill set for future career growth at American Express. • Strong relationship focus - able to build solid working relationships with clients, colleagues, and external parties. Enjoys getting to know people. • Commitment to integrity and American Express values, with high personal work standards. • Strategic thinker with good analytical skills, attention to detail even under time pressure.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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