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At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. 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. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

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This Vice President will be an integral part of the Mergers & Acquisitions team within Corporate Development, tasked with supporting American Express growth and profitability through M&A transactions. This individual will be responsible for working in close consultation with the AXP business units and senior management to identify and execute on acquisition, divestiture and joint venture transactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with senior management and business units to frame and prioritize strategic objectives and evaluate M&A opportunities against identified strategies.

• Develop landscapes for key strategic focus areas and business cases for specific targets, including detailed financial evaluation.

• Ongoing monitoring of developments and trends in various payments, lending, B2B, digital consumer services, and other industries pertinent to our customers.

• Lead deal teams to evaluate potential transactions and develop business cases from strategic, operational and financial perspectives.

• Ownership of most all elements of day-to-day execution and managing cross-functional teams to ensure deliverables meet internal and external deadlines.

• Support and lead selected internal and external negotiations

• Preparing and communicating recommendations to senior management, including interaction with C-level management and the Executive Committee.

• Establish best practices, standardize processes and methodologies for approaching M&A transactions.

• Managing colleagues within the M&A team as well as cross functional project teams to deliver high quality results and seamless transaction execution.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8-10 years previous experience in investment banking, corporate development, or business development

• Must possess excellent business acumen and strong collaboration and influencing skill as well as ability to drive results

• Strong analytical capability, including the ability to quickly learn new business models and identify trends in both existing and emerging industries

• Expert financial and valuation skills and must be able to frame and guide financial analyses.

• Excellent project and process management skills and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive results while working under tight deadlines.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to distill complex issues quickly and summarize key implications to senior management

• Strong understanding and experience with transaction negotiations as well as definitive agreements

• Strong leadership skills, with ability to mentor and coach members of the M&A and broader project / deal teams.

• In depth knowledge of AXP businesses a plus.

• MBA strongly preferred.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $185,000.00 to $260,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) 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 our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• 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.

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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Job: Executive

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25003069