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About the Role
IAG is a global function within American Express committed to expanding and enhancing its Internal Audit Group. Our professionals come from diverse backgrounds and hold professional certifications. Audit teams align to key risk areas and business units to provide comprehensive, risk-based audit coverage.
Responsibilities
- Lead a geographically diverse team in planning, executing, and reporting credit and fraud risk audits and related initiatives.
- Lead audit-related regulatory examinations and interactions, coordinating responses and ensuring clear communication with regulatory bodies.
- Build and sustain subject-matter expertise in credit and fraud risk controls and translate it into effective audit coverage.
- Oversee risk and control assessments and the development of high-quality, actionable audit findings.
- Generate forward-looking business and risk insights by expanding and overseeing a portfolio of audit analytics.
- Coach, mentor, and develop junior colleagues and co-sourced resources across the audit and analytics lifecycle.
- Manage team capacity, capability-building, and talent planning, including training, recruiting pipelines, and selection.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience in internal audit, credit risk, fraud risk, operational risk, compliance, or a related control function within the financial services industry.
- Demonstrated leadership experience managing high-performing teams, overseeing multiple complex engagements, and providing developmental feedback.
- Deep knowledge of credit and/or fraud risk management frameworks.
- Strong understanding of risks across consumer, commercial, or small business lending and payment lifecycles.
- Working knowledge of regulations and industry guidance applicable to credit and fraud risk management.
- Strong command of professional auditing practices, control theory, and the end-to-end audit lifecycle.
- Experience evaluating technology-dependent controls.
- Demonstrated ability to use data analytics, visualization, KRIs, KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards to identify risk themes and communicate insights.
- Ability to break down complex problems, integrate data analysis with business-process and risk-and-control knowledge, and develop practical recommendations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex issues and recommendations clearly to senior management, regulators, and stakeholders.
- Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams, manage competing priorities, and deliver results.
- Prior experience at a Big Four firm or global systemically important bank is preferred.
- Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required; the company will not pursue visa sponsorship.
Skills
- Credit risk
- Fraud risk
- Operational risk
- Compliance
- Financial services industry
- Team leadership
- Audit planning
- Audit execution
- Audit reporting
- Regulatory examinations
- Risk assessment
- Control design
- Control testing
- Data analytics
- Data visualization
- KRIs
- KPIs
- Scorecards
- Dashboards
- Project management
- Problem-solving
- Communication skills
Experience Level
- 10+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in accounting, finance, risk management, information systems, data analytics, information technology, or a related field.
About the Company
- IAG is a global function with over 400 team members across nine countries within American Express.
- We are committed to growing our audit staff as we continue to expand and enhance the Internal Audit Group.
- Our professionals come from diverse backgrounds including internal controls, regulatory compliance, financial accounting, operational risk, technology, and data analytics.
- Most IAG team members hold at least one professional certification.
- Our audit teams align to 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.