Audit Manager - New York, United States - Amex

Amex
Amex
Verified Company
New York, United States

3 weeks ago

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You Lead the Way


We've Got Your Back:

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways.

When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other.

Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.


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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

How will you make an impact in this role?


This role of Manager, Enterprise Digital & Data Solutions within the Internal Audit Group (IAG) will be an integral part of a focused team of experienced professionals that audit enterprise level platforms and processes.


  • Participate as a critical team member on audit projects responsible for assisting with annual planning and owning core audit tasks, more sophisticated areas and challenging workloads on successive assignments
  • Proficient use of automated work papers and other department and company tools
  • Ensure effective and efficient execution of audits in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets, and timelines
  • Present audit objectives, boundaries, and results to senior management, clearly articulating the potential impact of control gaps in a highly professional and proficient manner
  • Validate that actions taken by management to address findings are appropriate and detail the results
  • Maintain audit proficiency through ongoing professional development including data literacy skills
  • Proactively lead audit execution including supervise and mentor junior staff, review their workpapers, and call out issues where appropriate
  • Supervise a portfolio of audit analytics, assess analytic results, use the analytic data to tell the potential business story, and work with audit and business colleagues to validate that story
  • 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
  • Assist team leaders, senior auditors and staff auditors in accomplishing team objectives and producing results
  • Effectively coach, instruct, mentor and develop junior colleagues and cosourced resources in geographically diverse locations across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic journey, and audit methodology

Minimum Qualifications:


  • 3+ years of relevant experience
  • Understanding of regulatory, accounting, and financial industry standard methodologies relevant to the business, including technology and data implications
  • BA, BS, or equivalent degree in accounting or finance related field
  • Skilled in working with data, interpreting results, business intelligence and analytic standard methodologies
  • Ability to breakdown a sophisticated problem into components, solve them using data analysis, process knowledge and risk/control knowledge, and communicate data analysis, issues and control recommendations with transparency and integrity
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, practical and beneficial feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps
  • Evaluate results, synthesize audit findings across the project, draft audit reports, and ensure effective and efficient audit execution
  • Lead multiple simultaneous audit projects of all sizes and complexity across multiple business areas within and outside of local region, in unfamiliar areas, and for different audit leaders
  • Ability to effectively integrate business, operational, technological, data, and financial components in audit work
  • Lead integrated audits that consider financial, operational, compliance, and technology risks
  • Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators, key performance indicators, and scorecards / dashboards
  • Consistent record in project management and provide developmental feedback on outcomes

Preferred Qualifications:


  • 5+ years of relevant experience
  • Preferred financial services industry experience and an understanding of related products, services, features, economics and key regulations
  • Advanced degree in accounting, finance, business, or management information systems (or equivalent)
  • Lead a team and coordinate the planning, execution and reporting of integrated audits and initiatives in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets and timeli

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