Audit Director - Gen Ai

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IAG is a worldwide function with 200+ team members and offices across nine countries within American Express. 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. Most IAG team members hold at least one professional certification. 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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Develop and implement an audit coverage strategy for Gen AI, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. The audit strategy should help assess potential risks and vulnerabilities in Gen AI use cases and allow the Internal Audit Group to provide the First and Second Lines with sound recommendations for effective risk mitigation.
• Lead specialized ("core") audits focused on Gen AI to assess the Company's Gen AI governance, risk management framework and supporting control processes. This involves assessing the governance, risk management and internal control processes that support the ideation, development, deployment and monitoring of the Gen AI use cases.,.
• Educate and advise the Internal Audit Group on an effective approach for assessing Gen AI risks across audit portfolios.
• Effectively challenge the Gen AI use case developers/users, risk management groups/committees to ensure that the appropriate risks are identified and documented correctly.
• Identify potential biases, ethical concerns, and risks associated with Gen AI use cases and ensure that such use cases comply with data management/data governance requirements, privacy laws, and industry-specific regulations; evaluate broader implications of the use of Gen AI for reputational, strategic and compliance risks.
• Maintain internal audit competency through ongoing professional development; and keep abreast of the latest developments in Gen AI technologies, ethical considerations, and regulatory requirements, and update the audit coverage strategy accordingly.
• Set direction and provide oversight during the planning, execution, and reporting phases of all audit engagements in the assigned audit portfolio, including special advisory reviews; and ensure ongoing monitoring activities are effective in capturing existing, upcoming, and emerging risks.
• Demonstrate strong judgement and sound decision making
• Effectively coach, instruct, mentor and develop junior colleagues and co-sourcing personnel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced degree (Minimum a master's degree) in Statistics/Computer Science/Mathematics/Financial Engineering
• 7+ years of relevant work experience in the Financial, Banking or Consulting Industry
• Strong managerial skills, written and verbal communication skills, analytical, problem solving, lateral thinking and interpersonal skills
• Experience in developing/validating/auditing of AI/ML Models

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with regulatory interaction
• Understanding of local and globally significant regulatory requirements pertaining to AI/Gen AI.

Salary Range: $130,000.00 to $205,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + benefits

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.

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
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• 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

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