At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared <a target="_blank" href="https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/company/who-we-are/">values</a> 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.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.  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:The Audit Control Management team within the Audit Department plays a critical role in strengthening the department’s control environment and risk management practices. This role will play a key role in establishing and maintaining a strong governance framework, developing a control testing strategy, identifying and assessing operational risks, driving issue and event management, and identifying and managing the IAG owned issues. The role is essential to enabling a well-controlled, resilient audit function that operates with integrity, effectiveness, and efficiency.The objective of the Audit Control Management team is to identify risks throughout audit processes, systems, and platforms, develop and recommend risk mitigation strategies to address these risks, and proactively flag risk themes for intervention and control enhancement.This is an exceptional opportunity for you to showcase and further expand your control management skills, internal audit skills, and ability to influence positive risk management change!IAG is looking for a Control Management Senior Analyst focused on ensuring control management is embedded in the day-to-day operations of the department. It will involve extensive collaboration with multiple partners across IAG.Key Responsibilities<ul><li>Partner across IAG to enhance the control environment</li><li>Support IAG in their risk assessments performance (e.g RCSA)</li><li>Perform control testing strategy to evaluate the design and effectiveness of controls supporting audit operations.</li><li>Support thematic risk reporting</li><li>Maintain issue trackers and support remediation</li><li>Support risk management practices within the department</li><li>Support control monitoring and compile key operational risk trends, activities, and events</li><li>Support sharing insights, better practices, themes, etc. across the department</li></ul>Minimum Qualifications:<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree </li><li>2+ Years experience in operational risk management (e.g., within Risk and/or Internal Audit function) Understanding of critical operational risk management lifecycle activities</li><li>Knowledge of process excellence, risk/control assessment data analysis, compliance control frameworks</li><li>Project management, communication, and interpersonal skills</li><li>Experience in process governance, with an understanding of processes that align with policies, regulatory frameworks, and/or operational standards</li><li>Sound analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to analyze data, identify trends, and evaluate risk scenarios effectively</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Experience working within an internal audit department or second-line risk/control function.</li><li>Familiarity with audit methodologies and audit management systems.</li><li>Strong analytical, problem-solving, and program management skills.</li><li>Proficiency in using data analytics, audit management tools, and agile delivery principles.</li><li>Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, and evolving environment.</li><li>Demonstrates flexibility and a growth mindset, thriving in a dynamic, newly formed team environment where processes are evolving.</li></ul> Salary Range: $78,000.00 to $124,750.00 annually + bonus + benefitsThe 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:<ul><li>Competitive base salaries </li><li>Bonus incentives </li><li>6% Company Match on retirement savings plan </li><li>Free financial coaching and financial well-being support </li><li>Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits </li><li>Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need </li><li>20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy </li><li>Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) </li><li>Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program </li><li>Career development and training opportunities</li></ul>For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our <a target="_blank" href="https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/colleagues/benefits">Colleague Benefits Site</a>.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. Thats 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.US Job Seekers - Click to view the “<a target="_blank" href="https://www.eeoc.gov/poster">Know Your Rights</a>” poster. If the link does not work, you may access the poster by copying and pasting the following URL in a new browser window: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eeoc.gov/poster">https://www.eeoc.gov/poster</a>Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.