Audit Director - Conduct Risk & Internal Fraud

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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 experienced Audit Director – Conduct Risk & Internal Fraud in a hybrid role located in our New York City, Phoenix, or Sandy offices to help advance and grow our audit coverage across our conduct & internal fraud audit portfolio. The IAG Conduct & Internal Fraud Director role will lead core conduct & internal fraud audits, business monitoring, and management and regulatory action plan validations, leveraging in depth knowledge of conduct & internal fraud prevention and detection in the financial services industry, and support integrated audit teams with their conduct & internal fraud audit approach. The ideal candidate will have strong problem-solving skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to communicate audit issues and results effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee audit professionals across 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, ensuring audits are completed timely and with high quality; conduct L2 reviews

• Specialize in one or more specific lines of business; own portfolio with accountability, ownership and horizontal risk view of entire portfolio

• Collaborate with Audit Leaders to develop the annual Audit Plan, leveraging knowledge of the portfolio, banking, and industry trends to establish arisk-based Audit Plan with adequate coverage

• Support and/or lead regulatory activities and attend regulatory meetings as appropriate

• Lead delivery and execution of the annual Audit Plan for assigned audit portfolio using an integrated auditing approach that considers financial, operational, compliance, and technology risks

• Review management’s corrective action plans to address business-identified issues, audit findings and regulatory remediations

• Lead Chief Audit Executive (CAE) audit report reviews and share insights / observations

• Develop relationships with Senior Business Leaders across all business units, proactively identify changes in business environment, emerging risks, and control priorities that may impact Audit Plans, conducts effective business monitoring and guides team to adjust the audit approach accordingly; demon