Senior Analyst - Control Management | Internal Audit Group

Internal Audit Role At American Express

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.

Our Internal Audit Group is a worldwide function with 300 team members and offices across nine countries within American Express. 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.

The Audit Control Management team within the Audit Department plays a critical role in strengthening the department's control environment and risk management practices. This role will play a key role in establishing and maintaining a strong governance framework, developing a control testing strategy, identifying and assessing operational risks, driving issue and event management, and identifying and managing the IAG owned issues. The role is essential to enabling a well-controlled, resilient audit function that operates with integrity, effectiveness, and efficiency. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to showcase and further expand your control management skills, internal audit skills, and ability to influence positive risk management change! IAG is looking for a Control Management Senior Analyst focused on ensuring control management is embedded in the day-to-day operations of the department. It will involve extensive collaboration with multiple partners across IAG.

Key Responsibilities :

• Partner across IAG to enhance the control environment
• Support IAG in their risk assessments performance (e.g RCSA)
• Perform control testing strategy to evaluate the design and effectiveness of controls supporting audit operations.
• Support thematic risk reporting
• Maintain issue trackers and support remediation
• Support risk management practices within the department
• Support control monitoring and compile key operational risk trends, activities, and events
• Support sharing insights, better practices, themes, etc. across the department

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Salary Range : $78,000.00 to $124,750.00 annually bonus benefits.

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