Senior Auditor Financial Crimes
Senior Auditor Financial Crimes
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Job Description
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.
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 youll 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.
How will you make an impact in this role
IAG is a worldwide function with 300 team members and offices across nine countries.
Our assurance and risk professionals have diverse backgrounds including internal controls consumer compliance privacy financial crimes compliance technology operational risk financial accounting data analytics banking operations fraud and investigations among others. Most IAG team members hold at least one professional certification. Our audit teams align key risk areas and business units to ensure IAG can provide comprehensive and risk-based audit 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.
We seek data and technology literate risk and assurance professionals to deliver impactful audit conclusions and insight. American Express 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
IAGs innovative Data-Driven Continuous Auditing approach has led to patent-pending technology assets over our uniquely developed audit methodology and technology enablers.
Collectively IAGs 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. 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.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own audit tasks across all stages of the audit lifecycle working on concurrent core and integrated audit projects across multiple business areas for different teams and audit team leaders.
- Participate in walkthroughs with relevant stakeholders to understand credibly challenge assess and document relevant financial crime related processes risks and controls.
- Execute testing of process and control design and operating effectiveness across global US and international market audits across first and second line of-defense business functions with particular focus upon financial crime risk domains
- Perform validations of internal audit issues and/or regulatory issues / concerns and assist in performing root cause analysis etc.
- Assist in documenting risk-based evaluation of audit observations and findings and validate corrective actions taken by management to appropriately and sustainable address findings / audit observations.
- Develop familiarity of financial crimes risks within American Express across all lines-of-business globally and across both 1st and 2nd lines-of-defense functions.
- Maintain audit proficiency through ongoing professional development including data literacy skills.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 2 years of relevant audit and financial crime experience.
- Proficient understanding and experience with Audit Methodology within internal/external audit with demonstrated experience in the assessment of risks and controls.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality actionable and beneficial feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps.
- Optimally works independently within a team and across teams in a fast-paced environment applying related project management skills employing creative thinking and the ability to work on contending priorities
- Proven integrity innovation teamwork and excellence.
- Business process experience in the financial services industry including an understanding of related products services features economics best practices and key regulations.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Solid understanding of existing and evolving U.S. and International Fin Crime laws regulations and regulatory guidance.
- Attained or work towards any of the following certifications related to financial crimes compliance:
- ACAMS (Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist)
- ACAMS (Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist)
- Understanding and experience of financial crimes compliance risk domain
- Experience within financial services banking or card products industries preferred.
- Background in compliance internal audit - Big-4 and/or large financial institution experience
Other relevant professional certifications (e.g. CIA CISA CPA CISM CAP other technology-focused certification)
Non-considerations for sponsorship:
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the Enter Country Here is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
Considerations for sponsorship:
Depending on factors such as business unit requirements the nature of the position cost and applicable laws American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
