Risk Manager , Vendor Risk

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

Have you ever thought about what it takes to detect and prevent fraud and abusive purchases among hundreds of millions of e-Commerce transactions across the globe? Selling Partner Services (SPS) ensures Amazon's Customers are able to transact in the safest way possible. In order to ensure this safety, we utilize Vendors Risk Managers to strengthen our vendor risk management efforts and proactively detect fraud and abuse within our vendor relationships. You will support business lines with fraud & abuse detection and prevention. The team is responsible for developing fraud & abuse detection prototypes to improve accuracy and efficiency.

Key job responsibilities

1. Innovating and designing new or improved processes to support the business needs.
2. Execute audits, deep dives, and special projects in a timely manner while communicating recommendations and findings to management and other stakeholders.
3. Maintain a good understanding of best in class risk and control principles, and regulatory expectations – embed governance processes to perform recurring gap analysis against those expectations, and drive remediation where necessary.
4. Identify and develop appropriate data sources and elements which contribute to risk-based assessments.
5. Experience working in or supporting a fast-paced operations environment.
6. Perform operational deep dives on compliance-related processes and systems. Understand business processes, regulations and controls, work with partners to identify root cause of issues.
7. Take leading role in drafting and presenting deep-dive documents, including responses to senior executives and Correction of Errors (COE) reports.
8. Analyze existing policy and process gaps, and develop solutions to close them.
9. Understand and follow Amazon’s policies and procedures on invoice entry and transaction processing.
10. Coordinate with different process owners to conduct deep dives walk throughs and quality reviews of evidence to resolve complex problems.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience handling confidential information
- Exceptional written communication skills: able to write, clearly and succinctly
- Exceptional ownership and bias for action: willing to move quickly and decisively
- Proven analytical thinking with a natural tendency to use data in decision-making and prioritization

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience
- Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
- Experience with SQL and Excel

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