**Description** **You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.** With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally. At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact - every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong. Join Team Amex and let’s lead the way together. 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. **How will you make an impact in this role?** + Own audit tasks across all stages of the audit lifecycle working on concurrent core and integrated audit projects, across multiple business areas, for different teams and audit team leaders. + Perform validations of internal audit issues and/or regulatory issues / concerns and assist in performing root cause analysis, etc. across global, US, and international market audits, across first and second line of-defense business functions, with particular focus upon financial crime risk domains + Communicate results of the validations/audits to individuals at various levels of IAG and business management. + Participate in walkthroughs with relevant stakeholders to understand, credibly challenge, assess, and document relevant financial crime related processes, risks, and controls. + Develop familiarity of financial crimes risks within American Express, across all lines-of-business globally, and across both 1st and 2nd lines-of-defense functions. + Maintain audit proficiency through ongoing professional development including data literacy skills. **Minimum Qualifications:** + 5 years of relevant internal audit experience, in particular in Financial Crime area. + Demonstrated integrity, innovation, teamwork, and excellence. + Business process experience in the financial services industry, including an understanding of related products, services, features, economics, best practices, and key regulations. + Good understanding of existing and evolving U.S. and International Fin Crime laws, regulations, and regulatoryguidance. + Understanding and experience of financial crimes compliance risk domain. Preferred Qualifications: + Attained or work towards any of the following certifications related to financial crimes compliance:- ACAMS (Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist) + Experience within financial services, banking, or card products industries preferred. + Background in compliance, internal audit - Big-4 and/or large financial institution experience + Other relevant professional certifications (e.g. CIA, CISA, CPA, CISM, CAP, other technology-focused certification) + Knowledge and experience in the application of control theory and professional auditing practices **Qualifications** We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include: + Competitive base salaries + Bonus incentives + Support for financial-well-being and retirement + Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) + Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need + Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) + 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 Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations. **Job:** Internal Audit **Primary Location:** Spain-Madrid-Madrid **Schedule** Full-time **Req ID:** 25003351