About the Role
This role supports the Internal Audit Group's assurance strategy and coverage for AI/Gen AI. The Manager will help drive audit engagements end-to-end, supporting planning and execution, evaluating controls, and delivering actionable insights to strengthen AI governance, lifecycle management, and risk assessment practices.
Responsibilities
- Drive audit engagements end-to-end.
- Support planning and execution of audits.
- Evaluate the design and effectiveness of controls.
- Deliver actionable insights that strengthen AI governance, AI lifecycle management, and AI risk assessment practices across the enterprise.
Requirements
- The Manager will help drive audit engagements end-to-end.
- Supporting planning and execution, evaluating the design and effectiveness of controls, and delivering actionable insights that strengthen AI governance, AI lifecycle management, and AI risk assessment practices across the enterprise.
Skills
- AI governance
- AI lifecycle management
- AI risk assessment
- Data Science
- Model Risk
- AI/Gen AI solutions
- Quantitative expertise
- Business knowledge
- Regulatory knowledge
Location
- US
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Onsite
- Virtual
Experience Level
- Manager
Benefits
- 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
About the Company
- Our Internal Audit Group is a worldwide function with 400+ 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 our key risk areas and business units to ensure IAG can provide comprehensive and risk-based audit coverage.
- 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.
- Our Data Science and Model Risk/AI team plays a critical role in supporting Internal Audit by providing specialized assurance over models and AI/Gen AI solutions used across the enterprise.
- We deliver independent, risk-based evaluations that help auditors gain a clearer understanding of how models and AI are developed, governed, validated, and deployed within the business.
- By combining quantitative expertise with business and regulatory knowledge, the team helps uncover model risks, assess governance practices, and highlight opportunities to strengthen controls — ultimately enhancing the depth, rigor, and quality of Internal Audit's coverage over AI and model risk.
- 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.
- From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
- As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 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.
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