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American Express Staff Auditor - Professional Practices in New York, New York
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IAG is a worldwide function with 200 team members and offices across nine countries within American Express. 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. 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. 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.
This Staff Auditor role falls within the Professional Practices group. Key Responsibilities include:
Support the maintenance and updates of IAG’s governing documents, including the IAG Charter, the IAG Policy and the IAG Procedures Manual, and supporting templates
Facilitate approval of exceptions to the IAG Policy and the Procedures Manual
Support the management of IAG’s internal risk and control matrices and respective process documentation in line with Enterprise requirements.
Support the management of IAG’s Risk Category Owner program
Review IAG Audit Reports, Special Reviews, Finding Communications, and Audit Memos and help to ensure alignment with the audit database
Assist in managing the IAG Audit Report Distribution List
Assist in managing IAG’s independence and objectivity process, including tracking the Department’s completion of independence attestations
Update the audit database, Archer, for ad hoc requests from audit teams
Assist with facilitating QA improvement opportunities into methodology documentation, audit systems, and training materials.
Participate in when required, IAG’s regulatory activities which include meeting overviews and deliverables of regulatory requests related to core practice areas
Run ad hoc reporting requested by the audit department or Professional Practices group.
Minimum Qualifications
1 years of experience in audit or assurance advisory
Bachelors degree or advanced degree in Accounting, Finance, Business administration, or equivalent
Strong written and oral communication skills
Excellent interpersonal skills, including a demonstrated ability to work within high-performing teams, as well as independently.
Pragmatic “team player” with ability to partner with members across the audit organization and outside stakeholders.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office
Preferred Qualifications
Financial services, banking/ capital markets industry experience
Internal Audit, Assurance, or Accounting professional certification (CIA, CPA, CISA or equivalent)
Experience in Professional Practices or similar support role
Knowledge and appreciation of Internal Audit regulatory standards and industry best practices
Knowledge and experience in risk management and control theory including the assessment of risk, evaluation of controls and issue management.
Strong analytic and problem-solving skills (issue identification, problem structuring, analysis, development of root causes and recommendations), including the ability to analyze results and data to identify issue themes and/or create opportunities for improvement.
Qualifications
Salary Range: $55,000.00 to $105,000.00 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 .
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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
Other Locations: US-Utah-Salt Lake City, US-Arizona-Phoenix
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 24010971
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