Senior Manager-Technology Project Management

Job Description

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, sharedand Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. 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.

Let's build on what you know.

The Enterprise FinOps team is a key pillar within the Global Infrastructure Product Services organization. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Enterprise FinOps Practitioner to join our dynamic team as a Senior Manager, Technical Project Manager. This role is essential for driving financial optimization and efficiency across our enterprise, ensuring that our public cloud investments align with our strategic objectives. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Public Cloud billing at a detailed level, cloud financial management, the ability to leverage data analytics to drive cost optimization initiatives, and will be responsible for the strategy, implementation, and refinement of the tools and systems developed to facilitate cost attribution.

Here's just some of what you'll do:

• Be collaborative to implement strategies to optimize public cloud costs

• Monitor and analyze financial performance, identifying areas for cost optimization and efficiency improvement

• collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive financial best practices and cost management

• Provide financial insights and recommendations to support decision-making and strategic planning

• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting and analysis

• Utilize data analytics tools to generate actionable insights and reports on financial performance

• Create and maintain dashboards to visualize financial metrics and KPIs

• Communicate financial performance and trends to stakeholders

• Work closely with Engineering, Finance, and Product teams, customers, key partners, and colleagues to define a product vision and strategy that is aligned with the high-level Enterprise FinOps roadmap

• Facilitate regional workshops and training sessions to promote FinOps best practices across the organization

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to design and implement solutions that accurately track and optimize costs

• Continuously evaluate and improve FinOps documentation and communication practices

Are you up for the challenge Here's what you should have:

• Deep knowledge of FinOps practices and frameworks

• Proven experience in financial operations, public cloud financial management or a related role

• Understanding of public cloud billing models (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), including savings/discount plans, reserved/spot instances and tiered service offerings

• Strong analytical skills and problem solving-skills, with a proficiency in data analytics, visualization and financial modeling tools

• Power User-level proficiency in data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau)

• Ability to translate business requirements to product deliverables

• Expertise in Apptio Cloudability

• Experience with Agile methodologies is desirable

• Ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects with competing deadlines

• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and business needs while maintaining focus on key objectives

• Ability to adjust the message, style, and tone of a communication to accommodate a variety of audiences

• Ability to quickly create relationships and build trust with internal and external stakeholders

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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

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.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.