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.

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 seeking an eager Audit Director to actively contribute to the execution of the audit plan across the EMEA region. This includes organizing and directing audit engagements, ensuring appropriate resourcing, and maintaining high standards of quality and consistency across the portfolio. While the audit scope spans EMEA, the Director will also manage key relationships with senior management and market leadership in the UK, serving as the primary audit point of contact. The individual will represent Internal Audit at UK Audit Committee meetings, presenting the audit plan, reporting on progress, and highlighting significant issues and emerging risks relevant to the UK market. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to showcase and further expand your audit skills, and knowledge!

How will you make an impact in this role?

Lead regional and international simultaneous audit engagements across multiple business areas, working with different audit leaders. Proactively manage audit execution including supervise and mentor junior staff, review their workpapers, and escalate issues. Evaluate results, synthesize audit findings across the project, draft audit reports, and ensure effective and efficient audit execution. Present audit objectives, scope, and results to senior management, clearly articulating the potential impact of control gaps. 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. Present the internal audit activity, including audit plan status and audit conclusions in the relevant committees of local legal entities.     Effectively coach and mentor less experienced colleagues and co-sourced resources in geographically diverse locations across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic lifecycle, audit methodology, best practices, and business processes and products (including associated risks and controls).

Minimum Qualifications

Significant relevant experience. Strong knowledge and experience in application of internal control and audit practices, including internal and/or external audit, compliance or operational risk management. Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, actionable and impactful feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps. Proven ability to work independently and to lead team members in a way that encourages, develops, and delivers results. Effective project management skills, the ability to manage competing priorities and employ creative thinking to lead and manage multiple projects. 

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred financial services/payments industry experience in the UK and an understanding of related products, services, features and key regulations. Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and scorecards/dashboards. 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 integrity.

 

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  Support for financial-well-being and retirement  Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)  Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need  Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)  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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.