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Description

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

Our Internal Audit Group is seeking an eager Vice President, Audit Leader, Application & Technology Controls, in New York City, Phoenix, Sandy, or Charlotte that will lead audits of integrated technology controls, focusing on IT application controls embedded in critical business processes across the enterprise and general IT controls. This leader will play a key role in ensuring audit delivery across the end-to-end customer lifecycle, with a specific focus on the effective design and operating effectiveness of application-level controls that support regulatory, operational, and business objectives. In this role, the ideal candidate will advise on risk-based decisions leveraging in depth knowledge of IT structures, infrastructure, business processes, and IT controls and risks.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as an audit subject matter expert (SME) for assigned portfolio and continually monitor trends and developments in the auditing profession and banking industry

• Review and approve test plans, ensuring audit activities are performed with executional excellence and in alignment with IAG and Amex’s strategic goals

• Set the coverage strategy and determine deliverables / approach to evidence adequate coverage

• Lead and support regulatory activities, participate in regulatory meetings

• Support the development of the annual Audit Plan, leveraging knowledge of the portfolio, banking, and industry trends to establish the risk-based Audit Plan, with adequate coverage; review the Audit Plan, identifying new skills needed for audit delivery and upskilling the team accordingly

• Oversee delivery of the annual Audit Plan for assigned audit portfolio using an integrated auditing approach that considers financial, operational, compliance, and technology risks

• Understand other portfolios in IAG and how risks in those portfolio impact own portfolio

• Provide recommendations on how to improve audit execution practices and risk-based decision making to drive effective audits that deliver timely results

• Oversee and maintain relationships with Senior Business Leaders across all business units, identifying changes in business environment, emerging risks, and control priorities that may impact the Audit Plan, conducts effective business monitoring and guides team to adjust the audit approach accordingly

• Oversee special projects across multiple business units and geographic regions, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and risk frameworks

• Drive continuous improvement by monitoring industry trends, regulatory developments, and best practices in auditing and banking, and incorporate these insights into audit methodologies and team ways of working; identify ways to enhance business monitoring and partnership with the business

• Recruit, supervise, coach, mentor, and develop audit staff to build high-performing teams, fostering continuous learning and professional growth

• Oversee the execution of the training plan to upskill colleagues to ensure audit teams have the skills necessary to effectively deliver the Audit Plan

Minimum Qualifications

• 10 years of audit experience

• Prior experience working at a Big Four / G-SIB or equivalent experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline

• CISA (or CISM) certification is required

• Strong command of IT general controls, application controls, and business process automation risks

• Knowledge of regulations and frameworks such as SOX, Basel III, GLBA, CCPA, HIPAA, or equivalent

• Demonstrates exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex audit findings into clear, actionable, and strategically aligned recommendations for senior and executive management; presents well-supported solutions that strengthen control environments and close gaps

• Leverages a range of data to generate insights on risks and facilitate discussions with teams about the implications for Amex

• Guides teams in applying control theory and professional auditing practices to shape enterprise-wide control frameworks, providing strategic insight on systems, processes, and controls

• Continually monitors trends and developments in the auditing profession and banking industry, incorporates external perspectives and best practices into the annual Audit Plan?

• Ability to travel 5%–15%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ERP systems, automated workflows, or other core financial and operational platforms

• Additional certifications such as CPA, CIA, CRISC, or CIPP are preferred

• Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), information systems / technology, and scorecards / dashboards, etc.

• Interest in working with data, interpreting results, analytic best practices and experience with data analytics tools and data visualization.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $176,750.00 to $282,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) 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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Job: Executive

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Other Locations: US-North Carolina-Amex - for internal use only, US-Utah-Sandy, US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25018792