Overview
DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Risk and Compliance Solutions team is looking for an experienced compliance professional to join the Dubai-based Compliance Office.
The Senior Compliance Manager is a senior role within the APS Compliance team and is responsible for operating and constantly improving Amazon Payment Service’s 2nd line Compliance Programs in the UAE.
The Senior Compliance Manager will:
– Lead the digesting and analysis of regulatory change and look for opportunities to influence the regulatory agenda.
– Provide effective and timely advice on complex compliance matters to the business, in conjunction with our legal teams. The advice will be aimed at managing and mitigating conduct and compliance risks for APS’ payments products.
– Accurately Interpret and advise on applicable UAE regulations.
– Work with legal, risk and business leads to develop and maintain our compliance policies and controls.
– Support the head of Compliance in communicating conduct and compliance risks to Senior Management.
– Operate and constantly improve the Compliance Monitoring plan for the UAE regulated entity.
-Design and ensure completion of Compliance training modules in the UAE.
– Work with business leads to identify and collate relevant information to respond to requests for information from auditors and regulators (regulatory exams) in a timely manner.
About the team
The MEA Compliance Office at RCS is a customer obsessed compliance team that operates Amazon’s 2nd line Compliance Programs in the Middle East. We enable Amazon to operate its regulated business in compliance with applicable regulation. We are real compliance geeks, are committed to be a team of choice for the best talent and are extremely obsessed with delighting our customers and delivering great outcomes.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dubai, ARE
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
– Master’s degree or equivalent
– -Demonstrable expertise in Payments Regulation (ideally UAE payments regulation), AML regulation and Consumer Protection Regulation.
– -Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
– -Previous experience as a senior member of a Compliance Office in a major bank and/or e-money/payment institution.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– -Held regulated roles (CO/MLRO) vis-a-vis regulators in the Middle East or Europe/UK in the past.
About Payfort INT FZ LLC, (Amazon)
"Make History
Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Since Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com, we have significantly expanded our product offerings, international sites, and worldwide network of fulfilment and customer service centres. Today, Amazon.com offers everything from books and electronics to tennis rackets and diamond jewellery.
If you thrive in a challenging and fast-paced environment, you’ll meet your match with us, as you will be part of a vibe of constant improvement, where the things you do at one moment, you will not necessarily be doing 6 months later. We don’t like to sit still, which is why we always treat every day like the first day. A day to make more good things happen for our customers. It’s that kind of spirit that drives our success now and keeps us ahead of the competition in the future. And you could be part of it. It’s as simple as this: Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History."
