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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 company values 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.
American Express’ Internal Audit Group (IAG) has reinvented our audit process and is leading the financial services industry with our Audit NextGen, Data-Driven Continuous Auditing, and Auditor of the Future initiatives. Each uniquely support our Winning Aspiration to be a world class Internal Audit function that:
- Provides data-driven and technology-enabled assurance
- Delivers timely risk insights that are business-aware and forward-looking
- Supports our colleagues with experiences that prepare them to be enterprise leaders
Collectively, IAG’s strategic initiatives, combined with our greatest asset – our people – enable IAG to utilize advanced data analysis capabilities, provide greater and continuous assurance, and help ensure quality products and services are provided to American Express customers.
IAG’s innovative Data-Driven Continuous Auditing approach has led to patent-pending technology assets over our uniquely developed audit methodology and technology enablers.
We are looking for those who share our mission and aspirations and are passionate about the use of data and technology in a collaborative, people-focused environment.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
How will you make an impact in this role?
This role of Manager, Enterprise Digital & Data Solutions within the Internal Audit Group (IAG) will be an integral part of a focused team of experienced professionals that audit enterprise level platforms and processes.
- Participate as a critical team member on audit projects responsible for assisting with annual planning and owning core audit tasks, more sophisticated areas and challenging workloads on successive assignments
- Proficient use of automated work papers and other department and company tools
- Ensure effective and efficient execution of audits in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets, and timelines
- Present audit objectives, boundaries, and results to senior management, clearly articulating the potential impact of control gaps in a highly professional and proficient manner
- Validate that actions taken by management to address findings are appropriate and detail the results
- Maintain audit proficiency through ongoing professional development including data literacy skills
- Proactively lead audit execution including supervise and mentor junior staff, review their workpapers, and call out issues where appropriate
- Supervise a portfolio of audit analytics, assess analytic results, use the analytic data to tell the potential business story, and work with audit and business colleagues to validate that story
- Collaborate with audit teams to understand the data behind key processes, risk and controls to develop analytic control tests and analyze and interpret their results
- Assist team leaders, senior auditors and staff auditors in accomplishing team objectives and producing results
- Effectively coach, instruct, mentor and develop junior colleagues and co-sourced resources in geographically diverse locations across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic journey, and audit methodology
Minimum Qualifications
- Understanding of regulatory, accounting, and financial industry standard methodologies relevant to the business, including technology and data implications
- Experience with technology control testing including interface inputs, reports, application security, business continuity and third parties
- BA, BS, or equivalent degree in accounting or finance related field; background in information systems, data analytics or information technology would be a plus
- Skilled in working with data, interpreting results, business intelligence and analytic standard methodologies
- Ability to break-down a sophisticated problem into components, solve them using data analysis, process knowledge and risk/control knowledge, and communicate data analysis, issues and control recommendations with transparency and integrity
- Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, practical and beneficial feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps
- Evaluate results, synthesize audit findings across the project, draft audit reports, and ensure effective and efficient audit execution
- Lead multiple simultaneous audit projects of all sizes and complexity across multiple business areas within and outside of local region, in unfamiliar areas, and for different audit leaders
- Knowledge and experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices
- Ability to effectively integrate business, operational, technological, data, and financial components in audit work
- Lead integrated audits that consider financial, operational, compliance, and technology risks
- Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators, key performance indicators, and scorecards / dashboards
- Consistent record in project management and provide developmental feedback on outcomes
- Effectively works independently, within a team and across teams in a fast-paced environment to drive business results, applying related project management skills, employing creative thinking, and the ability to work on multiple priorities
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Preferred financial services industry experience and an understanding of related products, services, features, economics and key regulations
- Advanced degree in accounting, finance, business, or management information systems (or equivalent)
- Lead a team and coordinate the planning, execution and reporting of integrated audits and initiatives in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets and timelines
- Ensure the deployment and efficient utilization of analytic control tests on all applicable assignments
- Adapt quickly to unstructured assignments, clarifying objectives and delivering results
- Quickly develop a solid understanding of American Express' business model, products, services, and organizational units
- Enable effective assessment of controls, and delivery of high-quality audit findings by coordinating with appropriate control groups and external auditors in planning and performing audit work
- Professional certification: CISA, CISM, CAP or other technology-focused certification
- Drive business and risk insights through the monitoring and growth of a portfolio of audit analytics
- Analytics experience in Internal Audit, risk management, and/or financial services
- Maintain the team's resource calendar, training program and recruiting pipeline, and complete the screening and selection process
- Confirmed ability to ability lead team members in a way that encourages, develops, and delivers results
Salary Range: $90,000.00 to $165,000.00 annually + bonus + 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
For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.
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.
We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
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