Manager Audit

Job Description - Manager Audit (24003831)

Description

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 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.

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

How will you make an impact in this role?

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 and d elivers 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 pivotal initiatives, combined with our greatest asset – our people – enable IAG to use 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.

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.

This role of Audit Manager, Enterprise Digital & Data Solutions within the Internal Audit Group (IAG) will be an integral part of a focused team of experienced audit professionals that audit company level platforms and processes.

Responsibilities:

· 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, planned coverage, and results to senior management, clearly articulating the potential impact of control gaps in a highly professional and proficient manner.

· Evaluate results, synthesize audit findings across the project, draft audit reports, and ensure effective and efficient audit execution.

· Validate that actions taken by management to address findings are appropriate and document 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 advance issues

· Monitor 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, teach, mentor and develop junior colleagues and co-sourced resources in geographically diverse locations across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic lifecycle, and audit methodology.

· Obtain a CISA, CISM, CAP or other technology-focused certification.

Minimum Qualifications

· 5+ years of relevant experience.

· Preferred financial services industry experience and an understanding of related products, services, features, economics and key regulations.

· Understanding of regulatory, accounting, and financial industry accepted practices 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.

· Aptitude for working with data, interpreting results, business intelligence and analytic accepted practices.

· Ability to break-down sophisticated problems 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, actionable and beneficial feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps.

· Knowledge and experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices including the end to end of an audit.

· Ability to effectively integrate business, operational, technological, data, and financial components in audit work.

· 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 competing priorities.

· Ability to travel 5% to 15%

Preferred Qualifications

· 7+ years of relevant experience

· Advanced degree in accounting, finance, business, or management information systems (or equivalent).

· Professional certification: CISA, CISM, CAP or other technology-focused certification.

· Analytics experience in internal audit, risk management, and/or financial services

· Proven ability to lead and manage multiple projects and provide developmental feedback across deliverables.

· Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators, and scorecards / dashboards

· Proven ability lead team members in a way that encourages, develops, and delivers results.

Minimum 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:

• 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.

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Internal Audit

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Schedule

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Full-time

Job Posting

Job Posting

Mar 21, 2024, 7:09:52 PM - Mar 29, 2024, 3:59:00 AM

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 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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