Job Description

DESCRIPTIONAt Amazon we expect no more and no less from you. Ever since Amazon opened its virtual doors, our aim has been to become the most customer-centric company in the world.
How? By having people like you who make sure that our customers can find everything that they are looking for online - at great value and convenience. Immerse yourself in an environment that is fast-paced, growing and continuously innovating to offer great opportunities for our customers and for you!
We are looking for an Assurance Manager to join our fast-growing Global Assurance team. The successful candidate will help to establish a new function within the wider assurance team, providing advisory support to entities seeking to enhance their control environments by establishing in house assurance testing. In addition, the successful candidate will help the rollout and execution of our second line of defense risk monitoring across our regulated entities.
The successful candidate is an ambitious self-starter, with a proven capability to work independently and as part of a team, has good analytical and organizational skills, and a sound knowledge of relevant Assurance or Audit practices.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Global Assurance team stakeholders to develop tailored assurance methodologies, and support the implementation and embedding of this process in their business. In addition, they will work with stakeholders to drive scalable risk and compliance testing and monitoring solutions across many areas to help maintain a compliant status vis-\xc3\xa0-vis regulatory requirement. The successful candidate is ideally responsible for translating regulatory requirements to actionable recommendations and controls for the first line of defense by assessing risks, producing regulatory analysis and reports, and designing continuous risk monitoring solutions. The candidate is also a quick learner with an ability to absorb the nuances of Amazon's varied payment offerings, their risks and internal systems and practices.Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate should have good 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 product compliance as well as regulatory compliance relating to financial services;
• Significantly contribute to the design, development, implementation, and execution of compliance assurance testing, 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
Inclusive team cultureAt Amazon we embrace our differences and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experiencePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Consultancy, training, or project management experience a plus.

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