Audit Director | Corporate & Enterprise Shared Services

Internal Audit Role

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. 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.

This role is based in New York, Phoenix, or Sandy and will be supporting the Vice President of Corporate Services and Enterprise Shared Services. This leader will play a key role in ensuring audit delivery across the end-to-end audit lifecycle, with a specific focus on the effective design and operating effectiveness of People, Legal, and Environmental Social Governance risk pillars that support regulatory, operational, and business objectives. In this role, the ideal candidate will advise on risk-based decisions leveraging in depth knowledge of business processes, controls, and risks.

Key Responsibilities :

• Oversee audit professionals across multiple simultaneous audit projects of all sizes and complexity across multiple business areas within and outside of local region, in unfamiliar areas, and for different audit leaders, ensuring audits are completed timely and with high quality; conduct L2 reviews
• Specialize in one or more specific lines of business; own portfolio with accountability, ownership and horizontal risk view of entire portfolio
• Collaborate with Audit Leaders to develop the annual Audit Plan, leveraging knowledge of the portfolio, banking, and industry trends to establish a risk-based Audit Plan with adequate coverage
• Support and / or lead regulatory activities and attend regulatory meetings as appropriate
• Lead delivery and execution of the annual Audit Plan for assigned audit portfolio using an integrated auditing approach that considers financial, operational, compliance, and technology risks
• Review management's corrective action plans to address business-identified issues, audit findings and regulatory remediations
• Lead Chief Audit Executive (CAE) audit report reviews and share insights / observations
• Develop relationships with Senior Business Leaders across all business units, proactively identify changes in business environment, emerging risks, and control priorities that may impact Audit Plans, conducts effective business monitoring and guides team to adjust the audit approach accordingly; demonstrate effective challenge by providing deep subject matter knowledge industry related knowledge to support business partnership efforts
• Collaborate with Senior Managers / Managers to conduct post-audit feedback discussions with audit team members to provide actionable feedback, support development, and recognize accomplishments
• Support Audit Leader with special projects across multiple business units and geographic regions, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and risk frameworks, helps prepare for regulator responses and attend meetings as needed
• Serve as a People Leader, providing mentorship, coaching, and career development support for direct reports
• Recruit, supervise, coach, mentor, and develop audit staff to build high-performing teams, fostering continuous learning and professional growth
• Develop the training plan to upskill colleagues to ensure audit teams have the skills necessary to effectively deliver the Audit Plan
• Champion 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

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Preferred Qualifications :

Salary Range : $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 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.