Are you ready to apply your risk expertise to Amazon's unique environment? We are looking for a candidate with demonstrated expertise in EU regulated financial services company to be part of the EU Risk and Compliance Solutions team. You will play a vital role in ensuring that Amazon complies with local and regional regulatory requirements, using a pragmatic approach to balance risk management guidance against competing priorities. 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.

Key job responsibilities
EU Risk Manager: Lead the risk management program for the EU licensed entities (payments), including:
• Roadmap creation, including embedding of risk management mechanisms and support for change management (e.g. product launches, geographic launches, etc.);
• Monitoring of risk exposure versus entity risk appetite, with escalation as appropriate;
• Facilitate detailed, data driven narratives to inform leadership/Board members of risk levels, mitigations, and impacts;
• Incident response support.

Other Duties as Assigned include Global Programs development of policies, procedures, toolkits, and other governance documents as necessary

Key skills needed for the role include:
• Strong operational, second line risk management skills, with a minimum of 5 yrs experience in a risk management role;
• Manage several projects simultaneously with a sense of urgency;
• Articulate the three lines of risk management model and help define ownership roles and responsibilities;
• Coach non-risk professionals on key elements of Risk Management best practices;
• A pragmatic approach to risk, balancing risk mitigation activities with risk appetite and resource levels;
• Strong document writing and verbal communication.
• Assessing risks across regulatory, financial, and non-financial categories.
• Proven data analysis skills.


A day in the life
You will use your experience working with compliance and businesses and working autonomously to meet with external customers, give advice and feedback on application of risk management, draft documents, schedule meetings and workshops, provide feedback, meet with internal risk team, create reports, meet with senior leadership, keep abreast of risk exposures, report to Board and Committees, oversee the work of others who are supporting this initiative, determine workloads, work on global projects, raise your hand to innovate the global risk management program.

About the team
You will join a small 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.