Senior Audit Manager | Corporate and Enterprise 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 Director 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 include acting as an Auditor in Charge (AIC) on more complex audits and / or leading multiple simultaneous low-risk audits, executing and managing the audit engagement end-to-end, planning audit projects, defining objectives and scope, and coordinating with control groups and external auditors to ensure effective execution; conducting L1 reviews. Additionally, the role involves analyzing / reviewing audit results and documentation to evaluate effectiveness and efficiency, synthesizing audit findings, leading audit client meetings and walkthroughs, and developing test steps, audit findings, and the audit report in accordance with IAG policies and procedures.

The ideal candidate will guide the team on how to validate and execute corrective actions / Management Action Plans (MAPs) that are impactful, sustainable, and improve the control environment of the business unit. They will support business monitoring activities with audit leadership, tracking key metrics to identify control issues and trends; stay up to date with evolving industry trends, external news and regulatory changes, and analyze the impact to the business exams. Furthermore, they will delegate tasks to team members, guide senior / staff in assessing risks, evaluating control design, and executing audit tests; review and provide feedback on work papers.

As a people leader, the candidate will provide mentorship, coaching, and career development support for direct reports. They will effectively coach, teach, mentor, and develop less experienced colleagues and co-sourced resources in geographically diverse locations across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic lifecycle, audit methodology and best practices. Conducting post-audit feedback discussions with audit team members to provide actionable feedback, support development, and recognize accomplishments is also part of the role. The candidate will guide team to proactively and routinely communicate task status, roadblocks, challenges, suggesting potential solutions to the team and begin to develop subject matter expertise in a specific line of business.

The role also involves serving as the first level of escalation, effectively navigating problems and difficult conversations. Attending report / issue conversations with management, working with the Director / Team Leader to communicate and action on next steps, reporting on assigned tasks in client reporting meetings, and assisting with preparing materials for Regulatory exams are also part of the responsibilities. The candidate will follow-up with management to ensure management action plans are closed effectively and timely.

Minimum qualifications include six years of audit experience, prior experience working at a Big Four / G-SIB, a BS, or equivalent degree in accounting or finance related field, strong written and verbal communication skills, effective leadership in a fast-paced environment, critical thinking to break-down complex problems, and control theory and professional auditing practices throughout the audit lifecycle.

Preferred qualifications include CPA, CISA, CIA, or equivalent certification, experience in People, Legal, and Environmental Social Governance risk pillars, 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.

Salary range : $103,750.00 to $174,750.00 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.

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.