**Description** **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. **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:** We are seeking an Audit Manager who has experience in either project management and/or IT audit. The Audit Manager will perform audits to evaluate the enterprise project management function as well as auditing individual special projects within the Company against regulatory requirements and industry best practices. The Project audit team is included within the technology risk management audit portfolio and the team is heavily focused on utilizing a data driven auditing approach across the audit portfolio. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to showcase and further expand your audit skills and knowledge! Key Responsibilities: + Participate as a key team member on audit projects to document processes under review, execute audit tests (including technology control tests) competently in accordance with policies and procedures + 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 + Ensure effective and efficient execution of audits throughout the audit lifecycle in conformance with professional and department standards, budgets, and timelines + 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 audit proficiency and credentials through ongoing professional development including data literacy skills; CIA, CISA, CPA or equivalent to be obtained within 12 months if not active by hire date. + Supervise and mentor 1-2 junior staff (senior/staff auditor), review their workpapers, and escalate issues + Assist team leaders in accomplishing team objectives and producing results + Ability to adapt to audits of varying complexity and familiarity that may span across business and geographic areas **Minimum Qualifications** + 3 years of experience with industry regulations and expectations in technology risk management or project management + Understanding of financial industry best practices relevant to the business, including technology and data implications preferred + Familiarity with PMBOK, FFIEC IT Handbooks and NIST CSF + Familiarity with common project management software, project risks and issues (SDLC) + Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, actionable and beneficial feedback to management + Knowledge and experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices including the audit lifecycle + BA or BS in or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field **Preferred Qualifications** + 5 years of experience of industry regulations and expectations in technology risk management or project management + Experience with technology control testing including interface inputs, reports, application security, business continuity and third parties + Project management certification (PMP, CAPM, SAFe, etc.) + Experience with using data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and scorecards / dashboards + Experience with project management and the software delivery lifecycle + Experience with large financial institutions (i.e., G-SIB, Category III/II bank) **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. **Qualifications** 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 . 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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. **Job:** Internal Audit **Primary Location:** US-Arizona-Phoenix **Other Locations:** US-Utah-Sandy, US-New York-New York **Schedule** Full-time **Req ID:** 25000915