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Financial Crime Manager, Amazon Payments UK

ENGINEERINGUK

London

On-site

GBP 100,000 - 125,000

Full time

30 days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Financial Crime Manager to join their compliance team. This role involves ensuring that payment activities adhere to legal and regulatory standards while providing expert guidance to stakeholders. You will be a key player in developing policies, monitoring compliance, and preparing reports for governance committees. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment, leveraging their expertise in financial crime regulations to foster a compliant culture. If you are passionate about compliance and innovation, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a collaborative team setting.

Qualifications

  • Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, or audit.
  • Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure compliance of payment activities with legal requirements.
  • Provide SME advice and training to the business on regulations.
  • Maintain knowledge of regulatory changes and communicate them.

Skills

Compliance Program Management
Legal Knowledge
Risk Management
Anti-Money Laundering Regulations
Sanctions Knowledge
Fraud Prevention
Policy Development

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Job description

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Sector: Banking and Financial Services
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an experienced compliance professional to join the Amazon Payments UK (APUK) team to support financial crime compliance of the firm. Reporting to APUK's Deputy Money Laundering Officer (DMLRO), the Financial Crime Manager will be responsible for supporting regulatory compliance of the payments propositions within the UK.

The Financial Crime Manager will be part of the 2nd line Compliance Office and responsible for providing regulatory oversight and approval for new programs, providing expert advice to stakeholders and supporting strategy design with regulatory input.

This opportunity requires a subject matter expert to contribute within a fast-paced, growing team. You will champion customer outcomes and use your knowledge of the industry and regulatory horizon to ensure sustainable, compliant solutions are formed. You will comfortably handle ambiguity, and provide pragmatic challenge to colleagues, peers and leadership and you are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and dive into the details. You think outside of the box, coming up with solutions in times of ambiguity.

Key job responsibilities

  1. Assist in ensuring APUK's payment activities operate in accordance with all legal and regulatory requirements by monitoring the compliance of business activity
  2. Applying working knowledge of Financial Crime regulations relating to Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and Fraud.
  3. Assist with the development, documentation and maintenance of policies and procedures
  4. Provide SME advice and training to the business
  5. Prepare reporting to internal governance committees
  6. Review, challenge and approve risk records, policy breaches and matters for escalation
  7. Work with business leads to identify and collate relevant information to respond to requests for information from auditors and regulators (ad hoc and regulatory returns).
  8. Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant regulations by monitoring regulatory change and emerging risk from regulatory sources, to proactively communicate key developments to internal stakeholders and support the implementation of regulatory change.

About the team

APUK Compliance is an ambitious team of professionals who are passionate about supporting Amazon grow in a compliant and scalable way. We see Compliance as a service to our business teams and customers, we get excited about innovation and collaboration. We are a group that challenge each other to ensure we maintain high standards and enjoy internal debate to make sure we keep our core values at the forefront of how we work.


BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  2. Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent
  3. Experience handling confidential information

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  1. Qualification with ICA, ACAMS or similar

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