DIRECTOR AUDIT

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When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other.
Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success.
Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day.
And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.
American Express' Internal Audit Group (IAG) has reinvented our audit process and is leading the financial services industry with our Audit NextGen, Data-Driven Continuous Auditing, and Auditor of the Future initiatives.
Each uniquely support our Winning Aspiration to be a premier internal audit function that.
Provides data-driven and technology-enabled assurance Delivers timely risk insights that are business-aware and forward-looking Supports our colleagues with audit leadership that helps elevate business objectives We are looking for those who share our mission and aspirations and are passionate about the use of data and technology in a collaborative, people-focused environment.
IAG is a worldwide function with 200+ 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 a diverse set of backgrounds including internal controls, consumer compliance, technology, operational risk, financial accounting, data analytics, and banking operations.
The candidate will lead a team and oversee the planning, execution and reporting of integrated audits and initiatives in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets and deadlines.
This role will interact with market specific audit committees and local leadership in communication of audit results, significant findings identified, and upcoming risks to be aware of.
How will you make an impact in this role? Lead regional and international simultaneous audit engagements across multiple business areas, working with different audit leaders.
Proactively manage audit execution including supervise and mentor junior staff, review their workpapers, and escalate issues.
Evaluate results, synthesize audit findings across the project, draft audit reports, and ensure effective and efficient audit execution.
Present audit objectives, scope, and results to senior management, clearly articulating the potential impact of control gaps.
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.
Present the internal audit activity, including audit plan status and audit conclusions in the relevant committees of local legal entities.
Effectively coach and mentor less experienced colleagues and co-sourced resources in geographically diverse locations across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic lifecycle, audit methodology, best practices, and business processes and products (including associated risks and controls).
Minimum Qualifications Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience.
Proficiency in both English & Spanish.
Preferred financial services/payments industry experience and an understanding of related products, services, features and key regulations.
Strong knowledge and experience in application of internal control and audit practices, including internal and/or external audit, compliance or operational risk management.
Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, actionable and impactful feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps.
Proven ability work independently and to lead team members in a way that encourages, develops, and delivers results.
Effective project management skills, the ability to manage competing priorities and employ creative thinking to lead and manage multiple projects.
Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and scorecards/dashboards.
Ability to break-down a complex problem into components, solve them using data analysis, process knowledge and risk/control knowledge, and communicate data analysis, issues and control recommendations with transparency and integrity.
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being.
That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life.
Benefits include.
Competitive base salaries Bonus incentives Support for financial-well-being and retirement Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 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 opportunitiesOffer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.