Senior Auditor - Quality Assurance

**Description**
**You Lead the Way.
Weve 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, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, youll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success.
Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day.
And well do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

**About the Internal Audit Group at American Express**
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:**
The Quality Assurance team within IAG is responsible for providing reasonable assurance that internal audit activities are performed in accordance with relevant policies, industry and regulatory standards, and are of the highest quality.
The QA team partners with audit teams and strives to provide effective challenge to cultivate an environment of continuous improvement.

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

How will you make an impact in this role?

+ Participate as a key team member or support team members on Quality Assurance (QA) tasks and projects, as well as perform QA reviews
+ Perform activities supporting Internal Audit and Quality Assurances strategic initiatives
+ Continuously improve QA reviews and evolve QA practice to align with overall Internal Audit department policies, industry standards, and best practices
+ Influence audit teams and advise leadership on Quality Assurance and Improvement points
+ Assist in maintaining and performing quality checks of Quality Assurance data
+ Produce periodic Quality Assurance reporting for use internally and upon request of outside parties such as regulators
+ Maintain Internal Audit competency through ongoing professional development and participate in training delivery and content management
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ 2 years of experience in Assurance, Internal Audit, or Financial Services
+ BA or BS degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or equivalent degree
+ Knowledge and experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices including the audit lifecycle, and exhibit the skills for working with data analytics.

+ Ability to break-down a complex 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 professionalism
+ Strong client-facing and internal communication skills across all mediums and at various organizational levels
+ Project management and collaboration skills, including the ability to support concurrent activities across multiple teams, goals, and/or competing priorities
+ Effectively works independently and within a team construct in a fast-paced environment to achieve team objectives
+ Ability to employ strong analytical and creative thinking skills with a focus on quality
+ Proficient in Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Advanced degree in Accounting, or related field
+ Financial services industry experience, especially retail banking, and an understanding of related products, services, features, economics, and key regulations
+ Working toward a Professional Certification (CIA, CISA, CPA, or equivalent)
**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, well 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.

US Job Seekers/Employees - Click here to view the Know Your Rights poster and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.

If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters.

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

**Job:** Internal Audit
**Primary Location:** US-New York-New York
**Other Locations:** US-Utah-Sandy, US-Arizona-Phoenix
**Schedule** Full-time
**Req ID:** 24018304