CAMPUS - INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME - GMNS RISK & LEGAL ADVISORY INTERN - (MADRID) | MADRID, ES

Campus - Internship Programme - GMNS Risk & Legal Advisory Intern - (Madrid) You Lead the Way.
We've Got Your Back.
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways.
Whether we're supporting our customers' financial confidence to move are constantly redefining what's possible - and we're proud to back each other every step of the way.
American Express is one of the world's leading payments companies and provides customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build businesses.
Our "closed-loop" network includes card-issuing, merchant-acquiring and card network businesses.
Around the world we provide financial products and services to a broad range of customers, including consumers and businesses of all sizes.
Founded in and headquartered in New York, American Express has a heritage built on service and sustained by innovation.
When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse global community of over colleagues.
Your contributions to supporting, promoting and enhancing our brand will have a significant impact on how we continue to back our customers, communities and colleagues now and into the future.
You'll have the opportunity to develop a range of skills and networks, collaborate on challenging projects that deliver value to our business and customers, learn about our award-winning culture and network across our diverse business units and regions.
You'll become part of a collaborative and inclusive workplace as you build on your technical and interpersonal skills, hear from senior leadership through our Global Speaker Series, be responsible for your own live project, and learn first-hand how we deliver for our customers.
Overview/Bu.
Global Merchant & Network Services (GMNS) brings together American Express' merchant-and network-related businesses to enable a sharp focus on using the power of our network to provide unique value to all our mutual customers.
The organization manages the relationships with the millions of merchants around the world that accept American Express and runs the company's payment network and manages bank partnerships globally.
The Global Strategy & Capabilities (GS&C) group sits within GMNS.
GS&C's mission is to become essential to merchants and partners globally by delivering an easy, frictionless, value-added experience that enables them to meet their goals and serve their customers.
GS&C consists of a diverse set of teams that support the GMNS business.
GS&C operates in a dynamic, fast-evolving space, and candidates should thrive in environments with high levels of ambiguity and change.
Are you detail and process-oriented and enjoy problem solving? Are you comfortable navigating ambiguity and speaking up to do what is right? Do you bring curiosity and creativity to your daily role? Are you a fast learner and do you thrive sharing knowledge? Are you self-motivated with a bias for action? Then you could be just the candidate we are looking for.
Risk Advisory and Legal Entity Governance is a new organization within the GS&C, responsible for supporting our acquiring businesses across 30+ countries and ensuring they have a robust first line of defense.
The Risk Advisory and Legal Entity Governance team plays an active role in ensuring the business meets their growth objectives by providing risk expertise across all operational risk pillars to the GMNS Front Line and Control Management areas to facilitate comprehensive identification and management of operational and regulatory risk/changes.
Our organization assesses the optimal risk mitigation in support of business growth initiatives, and supporting our Legal Entities manage non-financial risk.
The Intern, Risk Advisory & Legal Entity Governance AEPE Legal Entity will.
Support the Risk Advisory and Legal Entity Governance team of AEPE by • Gaining experience analyzing outsourcing reporting metrics and ensure learnings are appropriately escalated through the Legal Entity Governance layers.
Includes but is not limited to tracking reporting to Bank of Spain, ensuring important performance metrics deviations are timely escalated, support with outsourcing documentation as needed.
• Familiarise with the Improvement process of Legal Entity Governance visibility on Third Party Data, by building risk visibility (e.
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third parties such as Acquiring Service Providers) by collaborating with various areas that have partial views on the associated risk, in order to build a holistic and consolidated visualization.
• Familiarise with the preparation and coordination of decks and meetings.
committees, business unit reviews, among others.
Includes following up with Subject matter experts to ensure appropriate updated risk assessment is performed on Committee items.
• Support the Acquire experience in the standardization of the report to the legal entity branches, including but not limited to- report analysis and extraction, creation of charts, consistent reports to bring better risk oversight • Support the documentation maintenance and appropriate storage of the AEPE Risk, Issues and Change tracker Desirable Qualifications/Skills & Experience.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to analyze data, identify trends, and evaluate risk scenarios effectively.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office pack, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Power BI knowledge • Strong project management, communication, and interpersonal skills • Fluent in English and Spanish, both written and spoken.
More information.
• Location.
Madrid • Starting Date.
28th April • Duration.
6 months internship + with potential 6 months renewal • Hours.
35 hours per week For Recent Graduate Students.
Alongside your internship you will be enrolled on programme coordinated by Fundación Universidad Empresa (FUE).
This programme will allow students to focus on productivity, adaptive management and innovation, to apply their theoretical knowledge in a real-world setting, collaborating directly on the management and optimization of commercial processes.
The student will develop essential skills in project management, data analysis, and negotiation, which are critical for future integration into the labor market.
To enroll the programme, the candidate must have completed the degree or due to submit the final degree project, or the final degree project plus 9 ECTS max.
For Undergraduate Students.
If you are an undergraduate student, your university will need to agree that you can commit to 35hours per week, please ensure you check this with your university prior to applying.
Qualifications 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 • Support for financial-well-being and retirement • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need • Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) • 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 Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.