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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.

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IAG is a worldwide function with 300+ team members and offices across nine countries. Our assurance and risk professionals have diverse backgrounds including internal controls, consumer compliance, privacy, financial crimes compliance, technology, operational risk, financial accounting, data analytics, banking operations, fraud and investigations, among others. Most IAG team members hold at least one professional certification. Our audit teams align to key risk areas and business units to ensure IAG can provide comprehensive and risk-based audit coverage.

We seek data and technology literate risk and assurance professionals to deliver impactful audit conclusions and insight. 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 world class 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 experiences that prepare them to be enterprise leaders

IAG's innovative Data-Driven Continuous Auditing approach has led to patent-pending technology assets over our uniquely developed audit methodology and technology enablers.

Collectively, IAG's strategic initiatives, combined with our greatest asset - our people - enable IAG to utilize advanced data analysis capabilities, provide greater and continuous assurance, and help ensure quality products and services are provided to American Express customers. 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.

The Data Driven Continuous Auditing (DDCA) Center of Excellence (COE) Team:

• Driving key results for Audit NextGen to provide broader and deeper assurance, provide timely risk insights, and support colleague growth
• Leading DDCA strategic initiatives for IAG to enhance the impact and quality of our analytic portfolio
• Establishing best practices and providing training and support to the audit teams, and
• Continuously improving our DDCA methodology.

Key Responsibilities:

Participate as a key member of the DDCA COE team by identifying analytic opportunities across the audit universe, and coordinating data research across audit, analytic and client teams. A DDCA COE Manager will assist in both development and execution of IAG data driven initiatives and will assist the team in elevating the quality of analytics throughout IAG, identifying opportunities to use data in innovative ways, and to supporting colleagues in their Auditor of the Future journey.

The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong understanding of American Express' processes, system infrastructure, risk and control framework, and a passion for embracing data. Specific responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with audit teams to understand the data behind key processes, risk and controls to ideate and develop analytic control tests and analyze and interpret their results
• Aiding in setting a strategic vision & tone by assessing audit needs, balancing capabilities against key objectives, researching new methods as needed, and applying best practices across the department.
• Sustaining a close partnership with the Data Analytics Innovation (DAI) team to develop analytics in a timely and efficient manner
• Aid in establishing prioritization principles and managing a custom analytic engagement pipeline & operational model that drives a consistently high-quality analytic product across the broader audit department.
• Seeking & implementing auditor feedback to continue enhancing our DDCA methodology and achieving well thought out efficiencies for delivering a high-quality data analytic auditing process.
• Developing the technical skills across IAG in support of data literacy and adoption of data-informed decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant audit, technology, and/or internal control experience in a financial services environment
• Experience and/or strong acumen to quickly grasp technical risks, concepts, and processes and their relation to underlying supporting data
• Aptitude for working with data, interpreting results, business intelligence and analytic best practices
• Analytics experience in internal audit, risk management, and/or financial services
• Strong written and verbal communication skills of dense and/or highly numeric content in a simple and concise manner
• Ability to break-down a complex problem into components, solve them using data analysis, process knowledge and risk/control knowledge, and communicate recommended actions with transparency and integrity
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and provide developmental feedback across deliverables
• Attained or working towards one or more relevant industry certifications (e.g. CIA, CISA, CPA)
• BA, BS, or equivalent degree in accounting, finance, or data science related field;

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant audit, technology, and/or internal control experience in a financial services environment
• Advanced degree in accounting, finance, data science, business, or management information systems (or equivalent)
• Background in data analytics, information systems, and/or information technology
• Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators, key performance indicators and scorecards / dashboards
• Adapts quickly to unstructured assignments, clarifying objectives and delivering results
• Experience with (or ability to quickly develop an understanding of) American Express' business model, products, services, and organizational units
• Additional relevant professional certifications (e.g. CIA, CISA, CPA, CISM, CAP, PMP, other data/technology/audit-focused certification)
• Ability to lead team members in a way that encourages, develops, and delivers results

Qualifications

Salary Range: $90,000.00 to $165,000.00 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 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
• 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.

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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