Risk Manager, RCS

Are you ready to apply your risk and compliance expertise to Amazon's unique environment? We are looking for a candidate to lead one or more program level components for Amazon’s financially-regulated entities. This person will play a key role in building and embedding exciting risk programs across Amazon’s different organizations. The Risk Manager will accelerate a broad TPRM framework, drive risk assessments, escalation, and mitigation strategies for risks in our regulated payments entities. You will join a team that partners across the organization to shape the future of Amazon’s evolving risk and compliance programs and where we value ownership, insight, intellectual flexibility, and sound business judgment.
The Risk Manager will also be responsible for supporting the second-line third party risk management program for our financially-regulated entities, including oversight of first line operations related to vendor/outsourcing management. To include (amongst other responsibilities): participation in program strategy setting; policy and other governance document maintenance and annual refresh; reporting to governing bodies; facilitation of key risk indicators; developing effective monitoring mechanisms, conducting risk assessments.
The role is vital to ensure we comply with local and global legal and compliance requirements and manage third party liabilities.
Additional opportunities include working across multiple 2LoD programs to accelerate coverage and global capacity in other areas, not just third-party risk management.
Key job responsibilities
• Second-line program level ownership for operational risk programs, such as third party risk management
• Provide independent second-line oversight and challenge relating to the identification, assessment, control, review and reporting of risks effecting the business objectives of the organizations
• 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 good 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.
A day in the life
Working on a global risk team, you'll be expected to maintain CET hours to collaborate with colleagues in EU, UK, MEA, AMER, APAC. As a Risk Manager, you'll have opportunities to work in a fast-pace environment, and think big about how to drive risk management of regulatory and non-regulatory issues.
About the team
You will join a global team of 15+ different nationalities and diverse experience from different sectors, where we value inclusive team culture, work life harmony, mentorship, and career growth.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 3-5 years of risk management experience, including third party risk management experience; Good oral and written communication
- 3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience
- Experience with SQL and Excel
- Professional risk management qualifications