Risk Manager, RCS Risk

DESCRIPTION

Are you ready to apply your risk expertise to Amazon’s unique environment? We are looking for an experienced financial services Risk Manager with demonstrated expertise in payments, operational risk, and operational resilience.

The Risk Manager will be responsible for leading one or more program level components of operational risk for our regulated payments entities. You will drive risk assessments, escalation, and mitigation strategies for risk in our regulated payments entities. The role is vital to ensure we comply with local and global legal and compliance requirements. You will have the chance to join a team that partners across the organization to shape the future of Amazon’s evolving risk and compliance programs. We value ownership, insight, intellectual flexibility, and sound business judgment.

Key job responsibilities

• Second-line program level ownership for operational risk programs with a focus on operational resiliency
• Identify and develop appropriate data sources and elements which contribute to risk-based assessments.
• Own, maintain, and annually update policies, procedures, and other governance documents, as necessary.
• Board and Executive Management level document and report writing. Develop detailed, data driven narratives to inform Board members of risk levels, mitigations, and impacts.
• Maintain a strong understanding of best in class risk and control principles, and regulatory expectations – embed governance processes to perform recurring gap analysis against those expectations, and drive remediation where necessary.
• Perform operational deep dives on compliance-related processes and systems. Understand payments business processes, regulations and controls, work with partners to identify root cause of issues.
• Identify, track, and report key risk indicators.
• Manage several projects simultaneously with a sense of urgency.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent
• Experience handling confidential information

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
• Experience with SQL and Excel
• Experience in program requirements definition, together with data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements

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