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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.

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:

Our Internal Audit group is seeking a Global Risk Audit Director to help advance and grow our audit coverage across our credit and fraud risk audit portfolio. In this role, the ideal candidate will be the team leader for auditors to provide assurance over the credit and fraud risk management across the customer lifecycle beginning from the underwriting phase through all aspects of customer management.

Responsibilities Include:

+ Manage a team and coordinate the planning, execution and reporting of credit and fraud risk management audits and initiatives in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets and deadlines

+ Plan audit projects; make project-level judgments around objectives and scope

+ Evaluate results, synthesize audit findings across the project, draft audit reports, and ensure effective and efficient audit execution

+ Enable effective assessment of controls, and delivery of high-quality audit findings by coordinating with appropriate control groups and external auditors in planning and executing audit work

+ Translate business risks, controls and supporting data into analytic requirements and partners with a development team to build audit analytics

+ Ensure the deployment and efficient utilization of analytic control tests on all applicable assignments, including credit and enterprise risk management

+ Proactively lead audit execution including supervision and mentoring of junior staff, reviewing workpapers, and escalating issues

+ Supervise 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

+ Lead 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

Minimum Qualifications

+ 7 years’ experience in public accounting, finance and/or internal audit in the Financial Services/Banking industry

+ BA, BS or equivalent degree

+ Aptitude for working with data, interpreting results, business intelligence and analytic standard methodologies

+ Ability to break-down complex problems into components, solve them using data analysis, process knowledge and risk/control knowledge, and communicate data analysis, issues and control recommendations with clarity and professionalism

+ Knowledge and appreciation of regulatory, accounting, and financial industry guidance and best practices relevant to the business, including technology implications

+ Knowledge and experience in application of control theory and professional auditing practices

+ Ability to optimally integrate business, operational, technological, data, and financial components in audit work

+ Proven track record of integrity, effective communication, innovation, and excellence

+ Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver high quality, actionable and valuable feedback to management on potential control issues and potential solutions to close gaps

Preferred Qualifications

+ Background in credit risk management and fraud risk management

+ 4 years’ experience in risk management control functions

+ Advanced degree in Accounting, or related field

**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: $130,000.00 to $205,000.00 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

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-New York-New York

**Schedule** Full-time

**Req ID:** 25009265