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Description

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 businesses within the North America and Latin America region. 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 the US and Mexico regulatory regime 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 and monitoring 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 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 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 regulations (Preferably US, Mexico or Brazil regulations);

• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge and solid understanding of relevant anti-money laundering, countering terrorism and consumer protection regulations.

• 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 culture

At 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.

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

Mexico City, DIF, MEX

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in banking, payments and/or e-commerce companies within a second or third line of defense function.

• Prior knowledge of North America or Latin America regulatory landscape especially on the level of financial crime compliance 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 knowledge in Mexico Regulations across several sectors (Payment Institutions, Issuers, Acquirers) etc. experience in gift cards compliance schemes is a strong plus;

• Prior Knowledge or experience in financial crime and terrorism 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.