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Internal Audit Role

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and leadership behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Our Internal Audit Group is a worldwide function with 300 team members and offices across nine countries within American Express. Our mission is to protect and enhance organizational value by providing independent, objective, risk-based assurance, advisory services and to influence the way the company manages risk. We are committed to growing our audit staff significantly as we continue to expand and enhance the Internal Audit Group. Our assurance and risk professionals have diverse backgrounds including internal controls, consumer compliance, technology, operational risk, financial accounting, data analytics, and banking operations. Our audit teams align to key risk areas and business units to ensure IAG can provide comprehensive and risk-based audit coverage. In addition, IAG has a Professional Practices group responsible for managing audit operations, quality, and standards; regulatory relations; reporting; training and professional development; and key internal capabilities and technologies.

This role is based in New York, Phoenix, or Sandy and will be supporting the Director of Corporate Services and Enterprise Shared Services. This leader will play a key role in ensuring audit delivery across the end-to-end audit lifecycle, with a specific focus on the effective design and operating effectiveness of People, Legal, and Environmental Social Governance risk pillars that support regulatory, operational, and business objectives. In this role, the ideal candidate will advise on risk-based decisions leveraging in depth knowledge of business processes, controls, and risks.

Key responsibilities include:

• Act as an Auditor in Charge (AIC) on more complex audits and/or lead multiple simultaneous low-risk audits, executing and managing the audit engagement end-to-end, planning audit projects, defining objectives and scope, and coordinating with control groups and external auditors to ensure effective execution; conduct L1 reviews
• Analyze/review audit results and documentation to evaluate effectiveness and efficiency, synthesizing audit findings
• Lead audit client meetings and walkthroughs
• Develop test steps, audit findings, and the audit report in accordance with IAG policies and procedures
• Guide team on how to validate and execute corrective actions / Management Action Plans (MAPs) are impactful, sustainable, and improve the control environment of the business unit
• Support business monitoring activities with audit leadership, tracking key metrics to identify control issues and trends; stay up to date with evolving industry trends, external news and regulatory changes, and analyze the impact to the business exams
• Delegate tasks to team members; guide Senior/Staff in assessing risks, evaluating control design, and executing audit tests; review and provide feedback on work papers
• Serve as a People Leader, providing mentorship, coaching, and career development support for direct reports
• Effectively coach, teach, mentor, and develop less experienced colleagues and co-sourced resources in geographically diverse locations across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic lifecycle, audit methodology and best practices
• Conduct post-audit feedback discussions with audit team members to provide actionable feedback, support development, and recognize accomplishments
• Guide team to proactively and routinely communicate task status, roadblocks, challenges, suggesting potential solutions to the team
• Begin to develop subject matter expertise in a specific line of business
• Serve as the first level of escalation, effectively navigating problems and difficult conversations
• Attend report / issue conversations with management, work with Director / Team Leader to communicate and action on next steps
• Report on assigned tasks in client reporting meetings; assist with preparing materials for Regulatory exams
• Follow-up with management to ensure management action plans are closed effectively and timely

Minimum qualifications include:

• 6 years of audit experience
• Prior experience working at a Big Four / G-SIB
• BS, or equivalent degree in accounting or finance related field
• Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills
• Effectively leads a team in a fast-paced environment
• Applies critical thinking to break-down complex problems into components, and solve using data analysis, process, risk control knowledge, and experience
• Applies control theory and professional auditing practices throughout the audit lifecycle
• Understands regulations, regulatory risks, accounting, and financial industry best practices relevant to the business

Preferred qualifications include:

• CPA, CISA, CIA or equivalent certification
• Experience in People, Legal, and Environmental Social Governance risk pillars
• Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), information systems / technology, and scorecards / dashboards, etc.
• Interest in working with data, interpreting results, analytic best practices and experience with data analytics tools and data visualization

Salary Range: $103,750.00 to $174,750.00 annually bonus benefits

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

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