Manager - Audit
American Express · Posted Nov 4
Banking, credit card, payment network, and travel services
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About the role
American Express' Internal Audit Group (IAG) is setting up a Resource Centre of Excellence in India that spans multiple audit portfolios and works with global and regional audit teams across various risk pillars. The group is heavily focused on a data-driven auditing approach, using analytics and automated work papers to assess processes, risks and controls. This Audit Manager role assists on multiple audit portfolios across IAG, covering annual planning, analytic control testing, report drafting, presenting to senior management, and coaching junior colleagues.
What you will do
- Participate as a key team member on global and regional audit projects responsible for assisting with annual planning and owning core audit tasks, more complex areas and challenging workloads on successive assignments
- 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
- Proficient use of automated work papers, analytics and other department and company tools
- Monitor a portfolio of audit analytics, assess results, & use data to tell the business story, and work with audit and business colleagues to validate findings
- Evaluate results, synthesize audit findings across the project, draft audit reports and ensure effective and efficient execution of audits in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets, and timelines
- Present audit objectives, scope, and results to senior management, clearly articulating the potential impact of control gaps in a highly professional and proficient manner
- Assist audit leaders and other team members in accomplishing team objectives and producing results.
- Execute multiple simultaneous global audit projects of all sizes and complexity across multiple business areas including integrated audits that consider financial, operational, compliance and technology risk.
- Effectively coach, teach, mentor and develop junior colleagues and co-sourced resources across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic lifecycle, and audit methodology
- Effectively manage scheduling, utilization and performance management for the assigned team members
- Maintain internal audit competency through ongoing professional development
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 7+ years of relevant audit experience within the financial Services Industry
- BA, BS, or equivalent degree in accounting or finance related field
- Knowledge and experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices including the audit lifecycle
- Understanding of regulatory, accounting, and financial industry best practices relevant to the business, including technology and data implications
- Ability to break-down a complex problem into components, solve them using data analysis, process knowledge and risk/control knowledge, and communicate results and control recommendations with transparency and integrity
- Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, actionable and beneficial feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps.
- Effectively works independently, within a team and across teams in a fast-paced environment to drive business results, utilizing related project management skills, employing creative thinking, and the ability to work on competing priorities
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with technology control testing including interface inputs, reports, application security, business continuity and third parties
- Experience with using data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and scorecards / dashboards
- Background in information systems, data analytics or information technology
- Professional Certification (CIA, CPA, CISA or equivalent)
- Experience from big accounting firms or global internal audit functions
Benefits and support
- 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 opportunities
About American Express
American Express Company is a globally recognized multinational financial services corporation specializing in payment cards, travel-related services, and network banking. Founded in 1850, the company provides charge and credit cards, expense management products, and merchant services to consumers, small businesses, and large corporations worldwide. It operates a proprietary payments network known for its premium customer engagement and lifestyle rewards programs.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 76800 employees
- Founded
- 1850-03-18
- Location
- New York City, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
Chief Colleague Experience Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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