Technology Audit Director, Integrated Projects - job 1 of 7

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, you'll 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.

About the Internal Audit Group at American Express:

Our Internal Audit Group (IAG) is a worldwide function with 300+ team members and offices across nine countries within American Express. We are committed to growing our audit staff significantly.  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.

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.

American Express’ IAG has reinvented our audit process and is leading the financial services industry with our 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

About the Role:

Our Internal Audit Group is seeking an eager Director – Project Governance Audit Team Lead to help advance and grow our audit coverage across an evolving Enterprise framework and global projects of varying complexities.  In this role, the ideal candidate will lead a lean team of managers and staff auditors with a focus on first and second line of defense processes including business unit project execution.  This opportunity may include supporting Third-Party Risk and IT General Controls audit entities as needed.  Additionally, this role will work immediately alongside colleagues that provide coverage over IT Applications, Cybersecurity and Resiliency. 

Key Responsibilities include:

• Quickly develop a strong understanding of American Express' business model, products, services, and organizational units 
• Lead a team of approximately four audit colleagues including audit managers, senior/ staff auditors: 
• Manage team metrics including effective and efficient execution of audits in conformance with professional and department standards, assigned schedule within budgeted hours and training program for development.
• Coach/teach/mentor/develop junior colleagues and co-sourced resources in geographically diverse locations on audit methodology, projects and technology processes & controls, stakeholder communication and effective workpaper documentation.
• Monitor a portfolio of audit analytics, & use data to tell the business story, evaluate results and work with audit and business colleagues to synthesize findings, draft audit reports.
• Present audit objectives, scope, and results to 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 document the results
• Maintain the team's resource calendar, training program and recruiting pipeline, and execute the screening and selection process
• Adaptable to work across multiple leaders with a workload of parallel audits of varying complexity primarily within the enterprise projects domain, secondarily support for technology or third-party risk domains including support of integrated audits.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in technology, information systems, business administration or related field
• Experience in a regulated environment
• 7+ years of experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices, with at least 5 recent years in IT audit, IT risk management, governance or related fields 
• People leadership experience managing audit teams and stakeholders in an internal audit role in a way that inspires, develops and delivers results.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that deliver high quality, actionable feedback to management 
• Effectively works independently, within a team and across teams utilizing related project management skills, employing creative thinking, a focus on quality, and the ability to work on competing priorities 
• Ability to break down a complex scenarios into components, solve them using data analysis, process and risk/control knowledge
• Self-confident with a strong sense of integrity, and the ability and willingness to challenge and be challenged, transparency and integrity
• Strong knowledge and appreciation of Internal Audit standards, regulatory, and financial industry guidance and best practices relevant to business, technology and data implications
• Experience with using data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and scorecards / dashboards

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices, with at least 5 recent years in IT audit, IT risk management, cybersecurity or related fields 
• Big 4 Audit/Consulting experience
• Audit credentials: Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
• Project Management Credentials: Project Management Professional (PMP); Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
• Experience testing interface inputs, reports, application security, business continuity and third parties
• Familiarity auditing against project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) principles, project risks/issues and common project management software
• Familiarity with technology frameworks e.g. NIST and experience testing IT General Control technology control domains

Non-considerations for sponsorship: Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Salary Range: $130,000.00 to $205,000.00 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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• 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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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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