Job Description: Risk Capabilities: 2019: Intern Hiring

About American Express:

We are a global services company and the world’s largest card issuer.
Our direct relationships with many millions of consumers, businesses and merchants
worldwide—combined with our leading edge marketing, information management and
rewards capabilities—enable us to offer an array of valuable services that enrich lives,
build business success, encourage financial responsibility and create communities of
people with common interests.

Overview of the Business:

A single decision can have many outcomes. And when that decision affects hundreds of
thousands of customers and employees, it needs to be the right one. That’s where our
Enterprise Credit & Fraud Risk Management and Enterprise Digital & Analytics teams
comes in. ECFRM & EDA are the backbone of all financial services operations at
American Express—it impacts every aspect of the company. As a part of this team,
you’ll work with the industry’s top ECFRM & EDA teams to create smart but innovative
strategies that advance our market share and the way we do business. If you’re
interested in getting to know all areas of our business and can translate our business
needs into remarkable solutions, you should consider a career in ECFRM & EDA.

Job responsibilities:
We offer a student program to strengthen your skills and help shape your future
personally and professionally. The Internship Program is considered one of the key
entry points for our full-time campus hires. It is a project-based program that provides
you with the opportunity to address real business challenges and offers you access to
senior leaders, professional development activities, fun social events and more.

Specific job responsibilities will depend on the project assigned to the intern. Overall, all
projects will require the intern to:
• Solve complex business problems, leveraging leading technologies like SAS, Big
Data, Hadoop, Java, Hive, Pig, Python, SQL
• Create innovative solutions to help American Express grow and drive revenue
• Build capabilities that enable American Express to leverage its closed loop data for
purposes of insight generation, business decision making and business intelligence
• Implement advanced algorithms on Big data and other platforms that enable more
efficient and real time availability of information for business use
• Ensure that processes that are created and implemented have strong value
proposition for the business and long lasting usefulness.
• The role provided will be a part of one of the many capability job families including
data automation, campaign management, business intelligence, custom consulting
capabilities, etc

Qualifications & Skills Required:

•Detail orientation with strong programming, analytical and problem solving skills.
•Solid written and oral communication skills with an ability to convey results, explain
issues, drive resolution.
•Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
•Ability to think outside the box to develop solutions to complex issues and drive results.
•Open to learning new tools and technologies.
• Ability to understand data, research and fix issues. Be hands on with working on large
datasets.
•Understanding of database concepts like table structures, data relationships, and data
coding.
•Must be a self-starter and drive key processes, while working well in a team
environment as a key contributor.
•An advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related
discipline.

Job Location:

Please note that the position can be based out of either Gurgaon or Bangalore
depending upon the business requirement