It Audit Manager

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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.
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

Collectively, IAG's strategic initiatives, combined with our greatest asset – our people – enable IAG to utilize advanced data analysis capabilities, provide greater and continuous assurance, and help ensure quality products and services are provided to American Express customers. 
IAG's innovative Data-Driven Continuous Auditing approach has led to patent-pending technology assets over our uniquely developed audit methodology and technology enablers. 
We are looking for those who share our mission and aspirations and are passionate about the use of data and technology in a collaborative, people-focused environment.
Our Internal Audit Group is a worldwide function with 300+ team members and offices across nine countries within American Express. 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.
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. 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.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Technology Audit Manager who is passionate about our Chief Technology Office (CTO) and technology risk management portfolio. The IT Audit Manager will perform audits to evaluate the CTO function, Technology Risk Management, and related processes against regulatory requirements and industry best practices.This is an exceptional opportunity for you to showcase and further expand your audit skills, and knowledge!
About the Team:
The CTO and technology risk management audit portfolio spans across information technology. Audit coverage includes auditing technology governance (e.g., application development, enterprise architecture) and first-line technology risk management. The audit team is heavily focused on utilizing a data driven auditing approach across the audit portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
Participate as a key team member on 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
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
Evaluate results, synthesize audit findings across the project, draft audit reports, and ensure effective and efficient audit execution
Validate that actions taken by management to address findings are appropriate and document 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 escalate issues
Monitor 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
Assist team leaders, senior auditors and staff auditors in accomplishing team objectives and producing results
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
Effectively coach, teach, mentor and develop junior colleagues and co-sourced resources in geographically diverse locations across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic lifecycle, and audit methodology

Minimum Qualifications:

3+ years of experience of industry regulations and expectations in assessing/auditing technology risk management or CTO functions such as: enterprise architecture, technology resilience, employee digital workplace, API management, application development, and IT asset management
BA or BS in or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field
Understanding of emerging technologies and its impact to control practices
Ability to clearly articulate risk insights to stakeholders
Familiarity with FFIEC IT Handbooks and NIST CSF
Ability to collaborate with colleagues and co-sourced resources in geographically diverse locations across all aspects of their role, the audit lifecycle, audit methodology and best practices.
Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver high quality, actionable and value-added feedback to management on potential control issues and potential solutions to close gaps.
Effectively works independently, within a team and across teams in a fast-paced environment to drive results, using related project management skills, employing creative thinking, a focus on quality, and the ability to work on competing priorities.
Proven ability to support multiple projects concurrently delivering high quality work products, in compliance with internal audit standards and regulatory expectations.
Ability to quickly resolve complex risk issues
Ability to adapt to evolving risk landscapes
Effective utilization of risk management tools
Proven ability to analyze data, identify trends, and evaluate risk scenarios effectively
High-level understanding of risk mgmt. tools within a financial services environment (e.g., GRC tools)
Professional Certification (CIA, CISA, CPA, or equivalent) expected to be obtained within 12 months of employment

Preferred Qualifications:

5+ years of experience of industry regulations and expectations in assessing/auditing technology risk management or CTO functions such as: enterprise architecture, technology resilience, employee digital workplace, API management, application development, and IT asset management
Technical Cybersecurity certification (CISSP, CCSP, CEH, etc.)
Experience with using data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and scorecards / dashboards
Experience evaluating cybersecurity risks and concepts
Experience with large financial institutions (i.e., G-SIB, Category III/II bank)
Proven ability lead team members in a way that encourages, develops, and delivers results

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: $90,000.00 to $165,000.00 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 .
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.
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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