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Come build the future with us!

At 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 a Compliance Assurance Professional to join our fast-growing Global Assurance team and support our regulated payments and lending businesses within in the Americas. 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 North or Latin America's regulatory regimes governing financial services institutions. 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 Regional Leaders 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 of 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 relevant anti-money laundering, countering terrorism regulations, consumer protection and lending regulations.

• Significantly contribute to the design, development, implementation, and execution of assurance testing for the Americas, 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.

A day in the life

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ 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 the US regulatory landscape on the level of financial crime compliance and consumer protection regulations;

• Experience advising, supervising, interpreting and communicating complex regulations to a diverse audience;

• Demonstrable experience of influencing stakeholders and senior stakeholders;

• Proven strong written and verbal communication skills;

• Proven experience in leading or supervising others to deliver multiple projects and/or reports on time and at the highest standards;

• Passion for collaborating with high energy and focus, driving results across multiple assurance reviews.

• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, changing environment; relentless innovator.

• Demonstrated capability to challenge status quo and champion best-in-class technical solutions and problem solving.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience auditing payments, e-commerce, consumer credit, lending and insurance businesses within the North or Latin American financial services sector;

• Prior Knowledge or experience in financial crime, terrorism regulations and consumer protection regulations;

• Familiarity with digital payments, new payment methods, safeguarding and settlement mechanisms;

• Certification in Internal Audit Risk Management, Governance and Financial Crime such as such as FRM, PMI-RMP, CAMS etc.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.