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Internal Audit Group (IAG) is a worldwide function with 300+ team members and offices across nine countries within American Express.

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Support the internal audit process, including all requirements for audit planning, execution, reporting and discussions with partners on any potential audit findings.
• Ensure quality of audit documentation, in compliance with the internal audit standards, regulatory expectations and IAG policies and procedures.
• Effectively challenge the First

- and Second-line Management to ensure that the key governance, risk management and internal control processes are adequately designed and operating effectively.

• Remain current on key regulations across LAC markets and changes within the industry that may impact audit coverage/audit plan.
• Execute continuous business monitoring with an external perspective and an enterprise approach.
• 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 partner relationships and have a solid 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 across all aspects of their role, the audit and analytic lifecycle, audit methodology, standard processes, and products (including associated risks and controls).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, economics, or finance.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in internal control and risk management in the internal audit department, consulting or external audit in the financial sector.
• Experience validating internal controls and deep understanding of risk assessment concepts to assess and challenge the existing controls framework.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills both in Spanish and English that deliver quality, actionable and impactful feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps.
• Proven ability work independently and to coordinate less experienced team members in a way that encourages, develops, and delivers results.
• Effective project management skills, ability to manage competing priorities and employ creative thinking to support multiple projects.
• Experience with data analytic tools, data visualization, key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and scorecards/dashboards. Ability to breakdown 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

• Relevant Audit professional certifications are preferred, such as Certified Inter

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