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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.American Express' Global Financial Crimes Compliance (GFCC) team is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, and Anti-Corruption compliance functions.
This team has global responsibility for identifying, investigating, and reporting suspicious activity, including money laundering and terrorist financing, and provides broad analytical and operational support for the company's enterprise-wide AML function.
GFCC is part of the broader Global Risk & Compliance organization.High Level Responsibilities: Senior most Compliance Officer responsible for all AML related matters pertaining to American Express Spain legal entities.Serves as the AML Advisor to the Boards/ Committees of AXP Spain as Regional MLRO and AEESA and AEPE MLRO.Serves as a member of the AXP Spain Country Executive Team, contributing thought leadership behind the AML program, assisting local Management to take final decisions on the overall local program and helping them to set the tone at the top of the Spanish organization.Responsible for the identification and assessment of AML requirements ensuring proper harmonization at regional level.Responsible for ensuring that AML risks are adequately identified, assessed, monitored, and controlled, across entities, lines of business, and product by coordinating the assessment of ML/TF risk assessment carried out at local level by Markets' Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs) in the Region.Monitoring adherence to the measures, Policies, controls, and procedures implemented within the Amex Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing compliance program, with all applicable Spanish laws and regulations, the AXP Spain Policies (where relevant), and the American Express Global Anti-Money Laundering Policy.Key escalation point in the market for anti-money laundering/counter terrorism financing decisions that need resolution