Senior Manager - Risk Mgmt

• Establish and maintain relationships with key regional stakeholders to ensure team activities and initiatives are compliant with business, industry and legal standards.
• Drive the design of threat and risk management programs, controls and testing mechanisms in collaboration with internal teams to ensure industry best practice is met or exceeded.
• Lead the roll out and continuous improvement of strategic programs, audits and initiatives
• Identify, prioritizes and leads work streams, analytical requests and other tasks as necessary
• Establish SOPs, process controls, and ensure alignment with risk and regulatory requirements.
• Support incident management teams responding to high impact incidents
• Collect, collate, analyze, and disseminate accurate, timely and actionable reporting on loss, risk, threat and their future development.
• Assess known and emerging risks and threats within EMEA that impact Amazon business operations.
• Develop, maintain, and modify collection and analytical strategy and contacts to ensure reports are accurate, timely and relevant.
• Identify information and data gaps, create techniques and collation processes to close such gaps.
• Maintain quality of products through continuous measurement of impact, program and product effectiveness and suggest improvements.
• Researches and recommend innovative technology solutions to manage complex threat and risk situations.
  

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Dubai, ARE

Basic Qualifications

• Bilingual in both English and Arabic
• Bachelor’s degree in related field (Data Analysis, International Relations, Global Security, Risk Management, Business Resilience, Political Science, Business Intelligence, Analytical disciplines etc.).
• 10+ years of experience in Risk & Compliance Management and 5+ years as a people manager.
• Solid customer focused attitude.
• Experience with the information gathering processes, risk management strategies and analytical methodology.
• Familiarity and mastery of various relevant informational technology platforms.
• Communicate clearly, accurately in both written and spoken media.
• Strong self-discipline and self-management skills, able to work effectively lead a team or as individual contributor
• Demonstrated ability to work with multiple, competing deadlines, with great attention to detail.
• Professional demeanor and ability to communicate with all levels of business leadership and staff inside and outside Amazon.
• Should have Payments industry background working closely with banks and regulators in GCC.