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Manager - Risk Management

Manager - Risk Management

locationPhoenix, AZ, USA
PublishedPublished: 4/4/2026
Project Management / Professional Services
Full Time
$89,250 - $150,250 per year

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, sharedvalues 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.

American Express Fraud Risk is a place to create, innovate, and collaborate, to push the boundaries on providing a world-class customer experience and catching fraudsters. Fraud Risk colleagues are industry’s most innovative thinkers and creative problem solvers with access to cutting edge tools and one of the world’s most valuable datasets. You’ll have the power to identify insights and take actions that can have a meaningful impact on our customers and our business.

This exciting and critical position will be responsible for evaluating victim and first party fraud risk by designing key fraud risk servicing strategies to improve customer experience and reduce enterprise risk exposure from first party fraud. This role will also interact with enterprise partners including Global Servicing, EDMX, Enterprise Digital, and Technology.

Responsibilities:

Within the Global Fraud and Banking Risk organization, the Suspect Claims team is responsible for leading bogus fraud claim detection and decisioning strategies. The successful candidate will provide thought leadership for the bogus fraud transaction identification and rebill process, which leverages Amex’s unique closed loop and big data capabilities.

In this role, you will collaborate with Risk and other enterprise teams to build efficient strategies, reducing the losses due to bogus claims by identifying data signals to accurately distinguish bogus and fraud transactions. You will work in a highly dynamic and exciting environment and will have the opportunity to shape strategies and policies for American Express Card and Non-Card products as it relates to bogus claims. You will be part of a high performing team and play an influential role working closely with partners in other Risk teams, Global Servicing Network, Legal/Compliance, and Technologies to create world-class strategies and capabilities.

The responsibilities would include:

·Designing victim fraud and first party fraud claims management strategies.

·Analyze structured and unstructured data and translate data using statistical, financial machine learning, or business intelligence techniques.

·Partner closely with internal credit & fraud risk teams and business partners to ideate, and create solutions, capabilities, and strategies.

·Leverage GenAI model in designing efficient strategies to reduce first party fraud risk.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Ability to build strong relationships across all levels and across organizations.
  • Experience manipulating and extracting data from both very large and small datasets; Fluence with data processing languages and tools such as SQL, SAS, Hive.
  • Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-changing environment, with a strong attention to detail, communicate effectively and work well in a cross-functional environment.
  • Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning techniques - GBM, GPT etc. is preferred
  • Post Graduate Degree in Economics, Statistics, Computer science, Mathematics, Finance, Operations Research, Engineering, Science, or in related advanced quantitative fields is preferred.
  • 3+ years’ experience in analytics is preferred.

Salary Range: $89,250.00 to $150,250.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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
  • 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
  • Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
  • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
  • 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
  • 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Salary range

  • $89,250 - $150,250 per year