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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.

About the Internal Audit Group at 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.

About The Role

This role of IT Audit Senior Manager within the Internal Audit Group (IAG) will be an integral part of a focused team of experienced audit professionals that audit enterprise technology platforms and processes. 

  • Participate as a key team member on audit projects responsible for assisting with annual planning and owning core audit tasks, more complex areas and challenging workloads on successive assignments
  • Ensure effective and efficient execution of audits by evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of technology controls, including testing control effectiveness with analytics-based testing, in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets and timelines
  • 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
  • Present audit objectives, scope, 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 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 escalate issues
  • Assist team leaders, senior auditors and staff auditors in accomplishing team objectives and producing results
  • Work simultaneously on multiple audit projects of all sizes and complexity across multiple business areas within and outside of local region, and for different audit leaders
  • 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

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years technology audit experience (i.e., IT general controls, IT applications controls)
  • Knowledge and experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices including the audit cycle
  • BA or BS in or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field
  • 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 clarity and integrity
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, concrete and practical feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps
  • 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
  • Demonstrable ability to balance multiple projects and provide developmental feedback across the work you're doing
  • Proven ability to analyze data, identify trends, and evaluate risk scenarios effectively
  • Professional Certification (CISA, CISPP or equivalent) expected to be obtained within 12 months of employment

Preferred Qualifications

  • Big 4 audit experience and/or financial services audit experience and an understanding of related products, services, features, economics and key regulations
  • CPA or CIA preferred
  • Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and scorecards / dashboard
  • Skills for working with data, interpreting results, business intelligence and analytic standard processes 

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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

  • 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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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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