Portfolio Manager - Phoenix, United States - Amex

Amex

Verified Company

Phoenix, United States

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

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The Portfolio Manager role presents a dynamic opportunity for a motivated and accomplished financial professional to manage all aspects of the operating expense base for the Global Merchant and Network Services Technology (GMNST) organization.

The responsibility will also include managing GMNS Technology investment portfolio with strategic focus on investment optimization.

As a Portfolio Manager, you will establish strong partnerships with the GMNS, GMNST leadership team, Finance, and peers across Tech Strategy & Portfolio Management to ensure the financial success of GMNST through sound management of monthly operating expenses and a deep understanding of the GMNST resource base.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Manage monthly financial processes and reporting in full collaboration with GMNST leaders, with an emphasis on projection accuracy and proactive identification of risks and opportunities.
Maintain accurate resource rosters inclusive of linkages to key initiative funding, investment cost model resource mapping components and forwardlooking views incorporating strategic workforce plan elements.
Collaborate with platform leaders and Finance on the annual budget process and ensure alignment with delivery priorities and talent strategies.
Implement and manage largescale vendor labor contracts ensuring contractual obligations are met and appropriate expenses are accrued.
Ensure consistent financial management processes are supportive of the technology investment strategy as well as regulatory and accounting standards.
Partner with the Portfolio Director to help define, plan, and build the technology investment portfolio for Enterprise Architecture.
Manage daytoday Portfolio activities such as resourcing, financial modelling and data trending, risk identification.
Take ownership in managing and ensuring successful financial, delivery and operational outcomes across the portfolio gathering status updates and escalating delivery risks when needed.
Drive delivery by creating and maintaining a comprehensive view of the organization's tech investments.
Build and enhance financial models and business cases that support the complex operating environment while taking into consideration the needs of a wide group of partners and stakeholders including GMNST leadership, Finance, Portfolio, Talent Strategy, and product and engineering teams.
Adapt, Refine and Develop standards, processes and supporting tools for budgeting/monitoring operating expenses and managing resource rosters while considering relevant feedback loops to enable transparency of financial performance against established plans.
Create and deliver insightful communication for leadership that highlights performance against targets, comprehensive forecasts, and recommendations for addressing risks and opportunities.
Uncover and manage the financial impacts of platform capacity changes and coordinate with the platform and portfolio teams to align the financial impacts to delivery impacts.
Build strong partnerships with technology, product, finance, and business stakeholders to maintain and deliver against technology roadmaps.
Develop recommendations by connecting the dots between seemingly disparate conversations