Vice President, Audit Leader - Head of Compliance and Conduct Audit

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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

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.

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

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.

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:

The Vice President, Head of Compliance and Conduct Audit will lead a global team of auditors evaluating enterprise frameworks and processes for Global Compliance and Conduct Risk. This is an excellent opportunity for a leader to develop and evolve the audit program of a leading global financial services organization. As a senior role within the company and a member of the global internal audit management team, the role holder will have the opportunity to influence at the most senior levels in the company.

Leveraging their experience, this role will involve developing world class internal audit approaches across Compliance and Conduct that will drive a sophisticated forward-looking risk-based audit plan, delivering assurance through both owned and integrated audits, aligning audit results with leadership, and leading related interactions with the various regulatory bodies.

About the team:

The Compliance and Conduct team audit portfolio team is a global team covering the overall audit coverage and approach for the 2nd line Compliance Function and the enterprise management of conduct risk. This includes executing assurance over the Compliance Framework and associated second line owned functions and driving coverage of Compliance and Conduct Risk globally.

Key responsibilities include:

• Drive the audit coverage strategy for Compliance and Conduct Risk globally ensuring this continues to evolve with regulatory and internal audit expectations.
• Lead and manage multiple projects and provide quality review across deliverables.
• Critically challenge risks and controls to identify any material systemic unmitigated risks.
• Maintain the team's resource calendar, recruiting pipeline, and execute the screening and selection process for strong talent.
• Coach, teach, mentor, and develop colleagues and co-sourced resources in geographically diverse locations across all aspects of their role including technical upskilling, audit lifecycle, audit methodology and best practices.
• Managing multiple audit deliverables ensuring these are completed on time, to quality and to budget.
• Maintain relationships with senior stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Drafting and communicating audit results at all levels.
• Experience of developing and leading analytics to support assurance work and drive insight.
• Travel - Ability to travel 5% to 15%

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA, BS, or equivalent degree.
• 12+ years of relevant Compliance and Conduct audit experience. Large Global Banking and/or Big 4 audit experience preferred.
• Financial services industry experience and an understanding of related products and services. Credit Card specific knowledge would be extremely beneficial.
• Knowledge and experience in Compliance and Conduct how these risks can manifest across the organization, and how frameworks and controls should be designed to address these risks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver high quality, actionable and value-added feedback to management on potential control issues.
• Ability to synthesize complex issues into simple and easy to understand language and verbally communicate assurance conclusions with clarity and professionalism.
• Proven ability lead team members in a way that inspires, develops, and delivers results.
• Task Management, Collaboration & Leadership - Effectively works independently, within a team and across teams in a fast-paced environment to drive business results, using related project management skills, employing creative thinking, a focus on quality, and the ability to work on competing priorities.
• Ability to strategically influence risk management across at all levels.
• Understanding of US and International Compliance and Conduct related regulatory expectations, industry approaches and trends.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification - Relevant professional Compliance and Conduct qualifications (e.g. International Compliance Association (ICA)).

Qualifications

Salary Range: $185,000.00 to $260,000.00 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 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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