Campus Undergraduate - 2025 Global Risk & Compliance Privacy Summer Internship New York, NY

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other.

Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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 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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

Business Unit / Role Specific Info

The Global Risk & Compliance Organization ( GRC ) independently oversee the company’s risk-taking and risk management activities, including the comprehensive identification, management, and mitigation of risks within the Company’s risk appetite.

GRC ensures the company operates in a safe, sound and fully compliant manner within all applicable regulatory expectations.

We create and maintain the overall risk management framework while ensuring legal and regulatory compliance.

We are passionate about our commitment to drive the company’s goals of growth and progress by creating a culture of awareness and proactivity around regulatory matters, and by partnering closely with business units across the enterprise to ensure we deliver maximum value to our shareholders and our customers efficiently and effectively.

How Will You Make an Impact in This Role?

Global Risk and Compliance is comprised of various organizations. These roles pertain to :

Compliance : The Global Compliance and Ethics organization plays a meaningful role in protecting the company, our brand and colleagues through practical, solution-focused guidance on regulatory and ethics-related matters.

A team of compliance officers work closely with the General Counsel's Office, business units, staff groups, and risk professionals across the company to provide standards and guidance in the development, implementation and maintenance of comprehensive compliance programs and to promote a strong risk management culture.

Privacy : The Global Privacy Team is responsible forproviding strategic guidance, principles, and advice to manage privacy risks.

The team focuses on driving and maintaining trust in the American Express brand through the creation of independent risk frameworks, policies and practices that ultimately protect our customers’ personal information while driving transparency and fairness in how the company uses data

Regulatory Exam Lifecycle Management : The Regulatory Exam Lifecycle Management team consists of strategic partners and a resource for our banks and the many business units at American Express that are implicated in regulatory oversight as they respond to exams and remediation.

The team is responsible for managing American Express’ end-to-end lifecycle of exams and the remediation of both regulatory and self-identified risk management issues, including internally driven gap assessments.

Skills / Experience

• Demonstrated experience building, sustaining and leveragingrelationships
• Strong work ethic, organizational skills and attention to detail with excellent follow-up skills
• Demonstrated willingness to take initiative and act decisively
• Ability to think strategically and influence teammates on multiple, cross-functional teams
• Positive, can-do attitude embracing Growth Mindset
• Project management skills with the ability to prioritize and multitask
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to organize, manage, analyze, and interpret large amounts of data to identify trends and themes
• Proven ability to translate highly technical and complex information into easily understandable terms
• Superior Microsoft Office skills with emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong interest in compliance related activities or experience in financial services

Minimum Qualification

• Currently enrolled in full-time bachelor’s degree program
• Students must have a graduation date between December 2025 and June 2026
• Minimum 0-3 years’ experience in Compliance or related activities across financial services

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding and knowledge of bank laws and regulations, relevant compliance requirements, U.S. Bank systems and processes as well as related governance activities
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory compliance requirements, preferably relating to regulated financial institutions and / or consumer products and AML / Anti-Corruption / BSA
• Experience with audit, compliance, risk, regulatory management, law, marketing and product management, finance, technologies or control related functions
• Experience with data and quantitative analytics

Our team will review completed applications on a rolling basis. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application and will be in contact with you

Salary Range : $24.05 to $63.00 hourly + sign-on bonus

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.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

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
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counselling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities
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