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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 continuous monitoring of the audit universe, risk assessment of audit entities and the department’s business monitoring activities.
• Support the annual audit planning process, including the preparation and maintenance of the annual audit plan for the Parent Company and Subsidiary Banks.

• Assist with preparing material and statistics to support Audit Plan status monitoring, and planning sessions with the IAG Management team.

• Manage the intake, review, and processing of audit plan change requests in the system of record and the Audit Plan file. 
• Produce monthly and quarterly metric reporting for ongoing audit activities and key performance indicators (KPIs), including Business Monitoring activity tracking and aging, and Client Survey Results.

• Assist with IAG’s Audit Reporting process including managing Report Review Meetings with the Chief Audit Executive, database checks of reports, and allocation of reports to reviewers.

• Review IAG Audit Reports, Special Reviews, Finding Communications, and Audit Memos and help to ensure alignment with the audit database.

• Assist with updates to Archer, including risk category updates, and laws and regulations tagging

• Assist with Ad-Hoc related requests to support the execution of the audit plan

• Perform quarterly Archer Access Reviews

• Support IAG strategic initiatives or large change moments that impact IAG’s audit plan and/or audit universe. 

• Assist with preparing deliverables to address regulatory requests related to IAG’s audit plan or universe.

• 1+ years of experience in audit or assurance advisory
• Bachelors degree or advanced degree in Accounting, Finance, Business administration, or equivalent

• Excellent 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 and experience in use of automated reporting and analysis tools

• 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

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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