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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.

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:

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Execute the internal audit process, including all requirements for audit planning, execution, report writing and discussions with stakeholders on any potential audit findings for the Treasury portfolio focusing on Liquidity Risk Management (LRM).

• Effectively challenge the First- and Second-line Treasury and Risk Management teams to ensure that the key governance, risk management and internal control processes are adequately designed and operating effectively.

• Remain current on the regulatory rules addressing LRM, including (but not limited to) Regulations YY and WW, and changes within the industry that may impact audit coverage/audit plan.

• Execute continuous business monitoring with an external perspective and an enterprise mindset.

• Validate management’s corrective actions to address audit findings and regulatory gaps. This involves reviewing applicable regulatory requirements, assessing/confirming compliance gaps, and evaluating management’s remediation activities to confirm that the regulatory requirements are effectively and sustainably addressed.

• Develop ideas and implement data analytics in support of the department’s NextGen initiative.

• Develop effective stakeholder relationships and have a strong understanding of the Company’s business model, its products, services, and organizational units.

• Identify and calibrate the primary sources of risk and design effective audit test plan to assess the control environment. Lead meetings with internal and external stakeholders.

• 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 banking concepts and products (including associated risks and controls).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, economics, or finance.

• 3 years of relevant work experience with a significant portion in one of the following: (1) 1st LoD Treasury (Liquidity), (2) 2nd LoD Risk Oversight or (3) Internal Audit within Treasury at a major financial institution in the U.S. (i.e., Category I, II or III banking institution under the Tailoring Rules).

• Experience of liquidity risk management including, but not limited to internal liquidity stress testing, cashflow forecasting, intraday liquidity risk management, collateral management, contingency funding planning, liquidity risk limits calibration/monitoring (including LCR), FR 2052a reporting, etc.

• Skillsets include understanding of:

• A bank’s Balance Sheet including the portfolio of high-quality liquid assets, loans, deposits, on and off-Balance Sheet commitments, and derivatives, and how these products react during periods of stress.

• Key liquidity risks and how they react during periods of stress

• Liquidity stress testing, back testing, and sensitivity analysis to assess the potential impact of stress scenarios to a firm’s solvency.

• Liquidity event management in the period of stress along with the processes, roles, responsibilities, and triggers for enacting the contingency funding plan.

• Identification of sources and uses of funding, understanding a firm’s funding patterns, and shifts between pledging of collateral.

• Experience creating or validating internal controls and deep understanding of risk assessment concepts to assess and challenge the existing controls framework supporting the management of liquidity risk.

• Strong people skills, with evidence of working collaboratively across an organization, and an ability to coach and mentor junior colleagues and co-sourced resources effectively.

• Proven ability to lead team members in a way that encourages, develops, and delivers results.

• Proven ability to work independently, within a team and across teams in a challenging environment to drive business results.

• Effective project management skills, the ability to manage competing priorities and employ creative thinking to lead and manage multiple projects.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, actionable and impactful feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps.

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• CFA, CPA, CIA, CRMA certifications preferred. Background in information systems, data analytics or information technology a plus.

• Experience interacting with U.S. regulatory examiners is desired but not required.

• Knowledge of other Treasury risk areas (e.g. ALM, capital risk management, CCAR) is desired but not required.

• Knowledge and experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices including the audit lifecycle.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $80,000.00 to $155,000.00 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 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

• 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 .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job: Internal Audit

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-Arizona-Phoenix, US-Utah-Sandy

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25012537