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How will you make an impact in this role?
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 Senior Auditor, 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 wide platforms and processes.
Responsibilities:
- Participate as a key team member on audit projects to document processes under review, complete audit tests competently in accordance with policies and procedures.
- Proficient use of automated work papers and other department and company tools
- Summarize and communicate results and recommendations to close identified control gaps.
- 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.
- 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 managers / managers, and senior auditors in accomplishing audit objectives in a team environment.
- 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 execution, and audit methodology.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of relevant experience
- 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.
- Ability to break-down a complex 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, 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, throughout the end to end of an audit.
- Effectively works independently, within a team and across teams in a fast-paced environment to drive business results, using related project management skills, employing creative thinking, and the ability to work on competing priorities.
- Ability to travel 5% to 15%
Preferred Qualifications
- 4+ 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
- Professional certification: CISA, CISM, CAP or other technology-focused certification
- Analytics experience in internal audit, risk management, and/or financial services
- Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators, and scorecards / dashboards.
- Capability for working with data, interpreting results, business intelligence and analytic accepted practices.
- Proven ability to lead and manage multiple projects and provide developmental feedback across deliverables.
. - Proven ability to lead team members in a way that encourages, develops, and delivers results.
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
- 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.
