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Amazon Risk Manager, SPTC Account Compliance - AML SAM Program in Tempe, Arizona
Description
The WW Selling partner trust and compliance (SPTC) vision is to enable every brand ranging from the small business to the large multi-national corporation – to be able to thrive and grow into a global selling success.
Our mission is to enable the long-term success of our selling partners by providing the most trusted shopping and selling experience and by providing powerful solutions for accelerating our selling partners’ business growth. We are entrusted with preventing fraud and abuse, and we are guardians for all our customers. We deliver at massive scale through technology, science, and expert human judgment while continuing to think even bigger about the future.
SPTC designs and builds the software systems, risk models, compliance solution and operational processes across Amazon Marketplaces with over 2 million sellers worldwide selling hundreds of millions of items. This minimize risk and maximize trust across Amazon's global product surface area, by ensuring every transaction and entity is compliant. We do all of this while creating a team culture that we are proud of – one that builds fulfilling careers, is inclusive and gives back the community, and is fun to be a part of.
We are looking for a strong Risk Manager to drive the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Suspicious Activity Monitoring program. You can influence without authority and skilled at communications across levels and functions. You are always looking to improve processes and are reflective on improving your own processes. You measure effectiveness and you make us better month over month. You are a relationship builder who cares passionately about the customer and how we deliver value each day.
The right candidate will possess a solid understanding AML and transaction monitoring combined with a strong business and project management background. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done, and provide recommendations to speed key decisions. The candidate should also have a track record of timely delivery of large-scale projects, and have the ability to operate independently.
In this role, you will work closely with the legal, business, product, operations, and engineering teams on effective risk mitigation countermeasures to ensure continued safety and compliance for Amazon. This senior leader will leverage their knowledge of regulations, their insight into industry standards, and their experience in risk assessment and mitigation to create and influence policies and strategies.
Key job responsibilities
You will leverage your deep AML experience to drive large-scale efforts to ensure adherence with regulations. You will translate high level requirements into straight-forward solutions, often inventing new ones. We are looking for a critical thinker who is also technically adept and thrives on solving challenges in partnership with teams across Amazon. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than many programs and display high levels of bias for action, earning trust, and ownership.
This position will be responsible for the following activities:
· Lead Suspicious Activity Monitoring Controls program by developing transaction monitoring strategies based on applicable business and compliance objectives and risks.
· Oversee Suspicious Activity Monitoring controls development and performance.
· Drive strategic projects across business and technical teams and effectively report to senior Compliance leadership on progress.
· Assess and communicate risk posture to the senior management, Compliance Officers, legal, and business stakeholders.
· Work with product, engineering, and analytics teams on development of new solutions to enable compliance at scale.
A day in the life
The SPTC Account Compliance AML SAM Program team defines, builds, and continuously evaluates controls across the Compliance systems and processes. We perform risk assessments, identify control needs, and drive control buildout, remediation, and improvements. We work closely with technical, business, legal, and operations teams to review process and system designs and provide input on controls solution.
About the team
Here at Selling Partner Services, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 14 employee-led affinity groups, reaching 10,000+ employees in chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our DEI Ambassador Program. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of program or project management experience
Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
Preferred Qualifications
4+ years of defining and executing against risk mitigation timelines timeline & requirements experience
Working cross-functionally with various technical stakeholders - Engineers, Business Analyst, Data Science team
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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $142,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.