Job Description
Job Summary: Assurance Manager sought to lead risk testing and compliance efforts for Amazon's regulated payment, lending, consumer credit, and insurance businesses.
Come build the future with us. At Amazon, we expect no more and no less from you. Our aim is to become the most customer-centric company in the world. We're looking for an Assurance Manager to join our fast-growing Global Assurance team and support our regulated payment, lending, consumer credit, and insurance businesses.
The successful candidate will help roll out and execute our second line of defense risk testing and have extensive knowledge of conduct, regulatory compliance, and financial crime requirements. They will work closely with Regional Leaders to drive scalable risk and compliance testing solutions across many areas to maintain a "compliant status" with regulatory requirements.
The Assurance Manager will work directly with stakeholders (Compliance Officers, Risk, Governance, Internal Audit, and other Support teams) to provide Senior Management with adequate visibility on regulatory risk exposure and the status of internal controls.
The candidate will be a quick learner with an ability to absorb the nuances of Amazon's varied payment offerings, their risks, and internal systems and practices.
Key Responsibilities:- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge and solid understanding of relevant conduct, regulatory compliance, and anti-money laundering.
- Contribute to the design, development, implementation, and execution of assurance testing for payment, insurance, and consumer credit businesses.
- Ability to learn and understand business processes, regulations, internal controls, and develop meaningful tests to determine control design adequacy and operating effectiveness.
- Perform operational deep dives to understand and find gaps in compliance-related processes and services.
- Identify and assess inherent and residual risks related to control deficiencies.
- Work with compliance office personnel, business units legal, and technology partners to identify deficiencies in internal controls and operational processes.
- Participate in process improvement initiatives, including identifying and implementing best practices in effective and innovative ways.
- Continuously identify industry best practices and contribute to the improvement of the Assurance Program.
- Embrace the use of data analytics to increase value and reduce costs of compliance-related assurance activities.
- Manage several projects simultaneously with precision and accuracy.
- Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience in banking, payments, or e-commerce companies including retail payments, consumer credit, lending, and insurance within a second or third line of defense function.
- Prior knowledge of regulatory compliance, conduct, and financial crime regulations.
- Sound knowledge of relevant Assurance or Audit practices.
- Experience advising, supervising, interpreting, and communicating complex regulations to a diverse audience.
- Excellent team player with the ability to work closely with others to deliver data-driven results, identify, and resolve issues.
- Strong and demonstrable influencing, stakeholder management, presentation, and communication skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly-ambiguous, changing environment.
- Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials.
- Experience with SQL and Excel.
- Prior experience auditing payments, e-commerce, consumer credit, lending, and insurance businesses within the EMEA financial services sector.
- Familiarity with digital payments, new payment methods, safeguarding, and settlement mechanisms.
- Certification in Internal Audit Risk Management, Governance, and Financial Crime such as FRM, PMI-RMP, CAMS, etc.