Senior Manager, Spain Chief Risk Officer - Financial Risk Management

Madrid, Spain (Hybrid)

Job Description

The General Risk & Compliance (GRC) organization serves as American Express' independent risk management function. GRC maintains the enterprise risk framework, provides oversight and challenge, and monitors key risks. By embedding risk discipline into strategy and operations, GRC enables responsible growth, innovation, and long‑term value creation while protecting customers and shareholders.

The Spain CRO function is part of the Int'l CRO team, within Global Risk and Compliance (GRC). It is responsible for identifying and overseeing risk across all processes.

Key Responsibilities
- Participate in Risk Appetite Framework (RAF) refresh process and seek to align International Legal Entities (ILE) Financial Risk metrics with Enterprise (as far as possible)
- Provide Financial Risk credible challenge to Legal Entity (LE) projects, strategies and in the Change Advisory Forums.




- Understand and speak to the Financial Risk profile of the LE based on aggregation of data and reporting
- Act as main point of contact for Financial Risk for LE regulator, Audit and ILE Leadership, and requests for Financial Risk program/results requests
- LE specific committee Financial Risk representative, and point of contact for Financial Risk at LE board meetings (as required)
- Own ILE R Financial Risk policies and frameworks, where required
- Influence Enterprise Financial Risk and Framework/Policies/Programs to ensure fit for purpose for ILE, and support ILE deployment of Enterprise Financial Risk programs
- Advise business on applicability and effective execution of Financial Risk frameworks
- Coordinate with enterprise Risk Lead on 2nd Line testing, and/or support ILE Financial Risk testing & provide output of ILE testing to Enterprise for awareness and risk aggregation
- Ensure appropriate communication of risks between ILE and Enterprise
- Support the ILE Chief Risk Officer (

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