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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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

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:

We are seeking a Technology Auditor to join our Cybersecurity and IT Process audit team. The Technology Auditor will primarily perform audits to evaluate the design and effectiveness of controls related to information technology, information security and related processes against regulatory requirements and industry best practices. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to showcase and further expand your audit skills, and knowledge!

About the Team:

The Cyber and IT Process portfolio focuses on key areas of cybersecurity and technology including application security, infrastructure security, cloud engineering and more. The audit team is heavily focused on utilizing a data driven auditing approach across the audit portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate as a key team member on audit projects to document processes under review, execute audit tests (including technology control tests) competently in accordance with policies and procedures

• 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

• Perform root cause analysis on identified control gaps

• Validate that actions taken by management to address findings are appropriate and document the results

• Summarize and communicate results and recommendations to close identified control gaps

• 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

• Assist team leaders, senior managers, and managers in accomplishing audit objectives in a team environment

• Document or complete administrative planning, fieldwork tasks with a minimal level of input and supervision

• Maintain audit proficiency through ongoing professional development including data literacy skills

• Validate that actions taken by management to address findings are appropriate and document the results

• Assist team leaders in accomplishing audit objectives in a team environment

Minimum Qualifications

• 1 years of relevant or educational experience

• BA or BS in or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field

• Professional Certification (CIA, CISA, CPA, or equivalent) expected to be obtained within 12 months of employment

• Understanding of cybersecurity risks and concepts

• Understanding of emerging technologies and its impact to control practices

• Demonstrated proficiency of technology auditing control disciplines

• Knowledge and experience in control theory and professional auditing practices

• Ability to identify problems and recommend solutions to complex control or technical issues

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to deliver high quality, actionable feedback on variety of complex issues to management on control issues and potential solutions to close control gaps

• Effectively works independently within a team construct, while supporting teamwork and achievement of team objectives

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 Years experience in relevant fields such as cybersecurity, IT Audit, or risk management

• Technical Cybersecurity certification (CISSP, CCSP, CEH, etc.)

• Demonstrated experience in applying cybersecurity concepts and countermeasures in public cloud environments

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

Non-considerations for sponsorship: Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 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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Job: Internal Audit

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Other Locations: US-Utah-Salt Lake City, US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25008679