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Director Information Security - Exam and Findings Management

American Express

Job Description

Posted on: 
February 11, 2025

Summary and company overview

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.

Responsibilities

  • Optimize Technology regulatory and exam management process maturity and monitor emerging developments to assess the impacts and relevance to American Express and stay ahead of new policies and regulations.
  • Manage American Express regulatory engagements, internal compliance audits, and external assessments for Technology programs, processes, and procedures.
  • Respond to audit and examination requirements from both internal auditors and external examiners.
  • Understand and be able to develop, implement, and follow-through on the lifecycle components of an MRA.
  • Collaborate with Internal Audit Group, and 2nd line of defense partners to align data for reporting.
  • Track and report status of open findings, MAPs, MRAs for Technology across the three lines of business.
  • Provide understanding of results, findings, action plans, etc. to include plan activities, actions of coordination, priorities, steps, process, and timeline for monitoring.
  • Create and maintain an accurate flow of audit and exam information including schedules, results, and statuses.

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications:

  • 10-15 years of Information Security or Technology Risk Management leadership experience.
  • Strong in risk management. Ability to link threats to risk tolerance and control effectiveness measurements.
  • Strong writing skills: the ability to frame messages for specific audiences and communicate information about complex issues to stakeholders in a clear and easy to understand way.
  • Experience developing and reporting on project metrics to provide for different levels of an organization.
  • Must have the ability to work with a diverse audience, under tight deadlines, and negotiate successful outcomes to challenging problems.
  • Demonstrable leadership and team-building skills, with a proven track record for successful delivery of projects, working cross-functionally with Technology and Security teams.
  • Understanding of information security regulatory landscape.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Commensurate academic credentials (bachelor’s degree / master's degree preferred) and security certifications (risk and regulatory preferred).
  • Experience working with Regulators and in complex regulated businesses.
  • Broad understanding of information security disciplines with emphasis on vulnerability management, data protection, infrastructure security, application security, identity and access, incident management and data analytics.
  • Experience as an auditor in 2nd, 3rd, or regulatory spaces.

Additional commentary

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Summary and company overview

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.

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