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American Express · 1 day ago

Senior Manager - Portfolio Management

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$104K/yr - $175K/yr

5+ years exp

American Express is a company built on a long history of innovation and a commitment to its customers and communities. The Senior Manager Portfolio Management will lead portfolio reporting and manage investment portfolios with a strategic focus on optimization, requiring strong financial management and analytics skills.

Credit CardsFinanceFinancial ServicesPaymentsTravel

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Partners with the Portfolio Director to monitor and track portfolio performance against delivery, cost, budget, resource allocation, forecast, schedule, and quality targets, ensuring the successful execution of the portfolio of tech projects

Identifies and addresses resource capacity risks that may affect delivery priorities, proactively managing potential impacts on project timelines and milestone delivery

Takes ownership in managing and ensuring successful financial, delivery and operational outcomes across the portfolio – leveraging data analytics and insights to gather and formulate status updates and escalating delivery risks when needed

Collaborates closely with finance teams to ensure alignment of budgets, actuals, and forecasts, maintaining financial accuracy and supporting budget management

Plays key role in driving continuous improvement of portfolio processes, identifying, influencing and implementing best practices to enhance overall Portfolio Management efficiency and effectiveness

Builds strong partnerships across technology, product, finance, and business stakeholders to maintain and deliver against technology roadmaps and promote awareness of key decisions

Develops recommendations by connecting the dots between seemingly disparate conversations, workstreams, and data, while also synthesizing feedback

Enables Executive leadership decision making through development and presentation of metrics and actionable insights covering areas of operations, delivery, finance and business

Drives change management needs while enabling process and tool improvements

Qualification

Data AnalyticsFinancial ModelingPortfolio ManagementAdvanced ExcelPower BIJiraApptioChange ManagementCommunication SkillsRelationship BuildingProblem Solving

Required

Bachelor's degree in business administration, Finance, Information Technology, and/or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred

Extensive Data Analytics and Financial modeling experience with advanced technical skills including but not limited to Apptio, Jira, Power BI, advanced Excel, General Ledger, and Amex AI tools (including ChatGPT and Copilot)

Skilled in evaluating and analyzing project portfolios to assess strategic alignment, performance, financial health, and value contribution

Demonstrated experience leveraging analytics to drive decision-making by synthesizing and visualizing data, then communicating actionable insights through clear, audience-tailored narratives

Strong relationship building with the ability to collaborate, influence and inspire others at all levels of the organization

Ability to continuously identify improvement opportunities and implement solutions to optimize processes and systems to improve productivity, financial accuracy, and data quality

Preferred

Ability to execute and maintain high performance under tight timelines and competing demands

Superb written and verbal communication; advanced or expert PowerPoint and visual presentation skills

5+ years of Portfolio or Program Management experience, in a large technology organization with a working knowledge of software development processes and Agile methodologies

Flexible and adaptable; ability to thrive in ambiguous situations with limited leadership oversight

Expresses intellectual curiosity with an aptitude and passion to challenge the status quo and problem solve

Understand linkages between supply and demand spend to provide meaningful, actionable insights and recommendations to ensure Operating Expense and LOB Spend targets are achieved