Campus Undergraduate - 2025 Internal Audit Group Staff Auditor Summer Internship New York, NY

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 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.

Business Unit / Role Specific Info

American Express’ Internal Audit Group (IAG) has reinvented our audit process and is leading the financial services industry with our Audit NextGen and Auditor of the Future initiatives.

Each uniquely support our Winning Aspiration to be a world class internal audit function that :

• Provides data-driven and technology-enabled assurance
• Delivers timely risk insights that are impactful and forward-looking
• Supports our colleagues with experiences that prepare them to be enterprise leaders

Collectively, IAG’s strategic initiatives, combined with our greatest asset our people enable IAG to utilize advanced data analysis capabilities, provide greater and continuous assurance, and help ensure quality products and services are provided to American Express customers.

IAG’s innovative Data-Driven Continuous Auditing approach includes patented technology assets over our uniquely developed audit methodology and technology enablers.

We are looking for those who share our mission and aspirations and are passionate about the use of data and technology in a collaborative, people-focused environment.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Participate as a key team member on an audit team tosupport IAG in its Audit NextGen objectives, including but not limited :
• Assist in the ideation and development of impactful and high-quality analytic control tests Assist team leaders, senior managers / managers, and senior auditors in accomplishing audit objectives in a team environmentCollaborate with audit teams to understand the data behind key processes, risks, and controls to develop analytic control tests and analyze and interpret their resultsDevelop data literacy skills through ongoing professional development
• Those joining IAG for the summer internship will develop their Auditor of the Future (AotF) skills through a data analytics focused project working with one of our auditteams.
• During your internship, you will learn about how to audit business processes with data, the American Express business model, and audit methodologythrough hands-on, data driven work experience.
• IAG’s commitment to developing technology-enabled and data-driven auditors is unwavering. For this summer internship, we are seeking creative individuals with a desire for personal growth and a passion for data.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a full-time Bachelor’s degree program
• Students must have a graduation date between December 2025 and June 2026

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant financial services industry awarenessand an understanding of related products, services, and / or features
• Desire to develop technology audit and data literacy skills (e.g., technology and data that drives American Express industry leading business processes)
• Pursuing a BA, BS, or equivalent degree in information systems, data analytics or information technology related field;

background in accounting or finance would be a plus

• Desire and capacity to break-down 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
• Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, actionable and beneficial feedback to management on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps
• Effectively works within a team and across teams in a fast-paced environment to drive business results, utilizing related project management skills, employing creative thinking, and the ability to work on competing priorities
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau and basic coding skillspreferred

Our team will review completed applications on a rolling basis. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application and will be in contact with you.

Salary Range : $24.05 to $63.00 hourly + sign-on bonus

The 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.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions

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
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counselling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities
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