Manager Audit

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Here, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day.

And well do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

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American ExpressInternal 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, IAGs 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.

IAGs 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.

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:.

Our Internal Audit Group (IAG) is seeking an eager Audit Manager to be part of the IAGs Resource Centre of Excellence being set-up in India.

In this role, the ideal candidate will be responsible for assisting on multiple audit portfolios across IAG.

This is an exceptional opportunity for you to showcase and further expand your audit skills, and knowledge!.

About the Team:.

IAGs Resource Centre of Excellence in India will span across multiple audit portfolios within IAG.

The Resource Centre of Excellence team is expected to work with global and regional audit teams to assist on audits across various risk pillars within American Express.

The teams shift timing will have some overlap with other regions, including US, EMEA and LACC.

IAG is heavily focused on utilizing a data driven auditing approach across all audit portfolios.

The Key Responsibilities of the role include:.

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.

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.

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.

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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