Audit Manager - Enterprise Projects

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

Our Internal Audit group is seeking an eager Audit Manager - Enterprise Projects in a hybrid role located in the Phoenix or New York office to help advance and expand audit coverage across enterprise projects and change management. This role will help manage and execute audits, conduct business monitoring, assess key risks and controls, and support remediation and validation activities as needed. The ideal candidate will have strong problem-solving skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to communicate audit results effectively.

Minimum Qualifications

- 5+ years of audit experience
- Prior experience working at a Big Four / G-SIB
- Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills to deliver deliverables with quality, and actionable value-add feedback to management on issues, opportunity areas, and deficiency solutions
- Effectively leads a team in a fast-paced environment to drive business results, utilizing related project management skills, employing creative thinking, and the ability to work on competing priorities
- Applies critical thinking to break-down complex problems into components, and solve using data analysis, process, risk control knowledge, and experience to drive risk-based conclusions and decisions
- Applies control theory and professional auditing practices throughout the audit lifecycle
- Understands regulations, regulatory risks, accounting, and financial industry best practices relevant to the business, including emerging technology and data considerations, and incorporates into the audit approach to enhance outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), information systems / technology, and scorecards / dashboards, etc.
- Interest in working with data, interpreting results, analytic best practices and experience with data analytics tools and data visualization
- Experience auditing large-scale enterprise projects, transformation initiatives, and change management programs
- Strong understanding of project and change management governance, including planning, risk and issue management, implementation readiness, stakeholder impact, and adoption
- Familiarity with project and change management methodologies such as PMBOK, Agile, SAFe, or similar frameworks
- Project or change management certification such as PMP, CAPM, SAFe, or equivalent

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