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Amazon Senior Compliance Manager - UAE, Risk and Compliance Solutions in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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.