Manager - Audit

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, youll 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.

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
  
  

• Participate as a key team member on APAC 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 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  

• 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