American Express - Manager - Internal Audit

Key Responsibilities:

- Participate as a key team member on global and regional audit projects responsible for assisting with annual planning and owning core audit tasks, more complex areas and challenging workloads on successive assignments

- 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

- Proficient use of automated work papers, analytics and other department and company tools

Monitor a portfolio of audit analytics, assess results, & use data to tell the business story, and work with audit and business colleagues to validate findings

- Evaluate results, synthesize audit findings across the project, draft audit reports and ensure effective and efficient execution of audits in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets, and timelines

- Present audit objectives, scope, and results to senior management, clearly articulating the potential impact of control gaps in a highly professional and proficient manner

- Assist audit leaders and other team members in accomplishing team objectives and producing results.

- Execute multiple simultaneous global audit projects of all sizes and complexity across multiple business areas including integrated audits that consider financial, operational, compliance and technology risk.

- Effectively coach, teach, mentor and develop junior colleagues and co-sourced resources across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic lifecycle, and audit methodology

- Effectively manage scheduling, utilization and performance management for the assigned team members

- Maintain internal audit competency through ongoing professional development

Minimum Qualifications:

- 7+ years of relevant audit experience within the financial Services Industry

- BA, BS, or equivalent degree in accounting or finance related field

- Knowledge and experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices including the audit lifecycle

- Understanding of regulatory, accounting, and financial industry best practices relevant to the business, including technology and data implications

- Ability to break down a complex problem into components, solve them using data analysis, process knowledge and risk/control knowledge, and communicate results 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.

- Effectively works independently, within a team and across teams in a fast-paced environment to drive business results, utilizing related project management skills, employing creative thinking, and the ability to work on competing priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with technology control testing including interface inputs, reports, application security, business continuity and third parties

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

- Background in information systems, data analytics or information technology

- Professional Certification (CIA, CPA, CISA or equivalent)

- Experience from big accounting firms or global internal audit functions