Senior Assurance Manager, Risk and Compliance Solutions

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We are looking for a Compliance Assurance Professional to join the MEA Risk and Compliance team and support our regulated payments in the Middle East and Africa. The successful candidate should help the rollout and execution of our second line of defense risk monitoring in the region and has ideally extensive knowledge of Payments and Financial Regulation. The successful candidate is an ambitious self-starter, with a proven capability to work independently and as part of a team, has strong analytical and organizational skills, and a sound knowledge of relevant Assurance or Audit practices.

The role is uniquely placed to work directly with Compliance Officers across the MEA region to drive scalable risk and compliance testing solutions across many areas to help maintain a compliant status vis-à-vis regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will therefore work closely with the Global Assurance team stakeholders (Compliance Officers, Payments Risk, Governance, Internal Audit and other Operational and Support teams) to provide Senior Management with adequate visibility on regulatory risk exposure and the status of internal controls.

The successful candidate is ideally responsible for assessing risks, producing regulatory analysis and reports, and designing continuous testing solutions. The candidate is also a quick learner with an ability to absorb the nuances of Amazon's varied offerings, their risks and internal systems and practices.

Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate should have strong business and communication skills, able to influence senior stakeholders via data-driven and actionable insights. The successful candidate will also:

• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge and solid understanding of Financial Regulation including relevant anti-money laundering, countering terrorism regulations and consumer protection.
• Significantly contribute to the design, development, implementation, and execution of assurance testing for MEA, lead issue validation activities with stakeholders and report to Senior Management;
• 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 and identify root cause of issues;
• 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.

About the team
The MEA Compliance regional team supports Amazon's regulated entities across the Middle East and Africa to implement 2LoD controls that enable them to demonstrate compliance with regulation and manage their risk effectively. We do this while keeping customers at heart.

• 8+ years of audit or assurance experience.
• Masters degree or equivalent.

• 10 years of internal audit or assurance experience with a clear focus on regulatory compliance.

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