Financial Crime Manager, Amazon Payments UK

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a Financial Crime Manager to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements within its UK operations. The successful candidate will provide oversight for payment activities, engage in policy development, and advise on compliance-related issues while fostering a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in compliance program management and legal governance.
• Experience handling confidential information is essential.

Responsibilities

• Monitor compliance of business activities according to regulations.
• Provide expert advice and training to stakeholders.
• Prepare reports for internal governance committees.

Skills

Financial Crime regulations

Regulatory compliance

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Job ID: 2929381 | Amazon Payments UK Limited

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
• Assist in ensuring APUK’s payment activities operate in accordance with all legal and regulatory requirements by monitoring the compliance of business activity
* Applying working knowledge of Financial Crime regulations relating to Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and Fraud.
• Assist with the development, documentation and maintenance of policies and procedures
• Provide SME advice and training to the business
• Prepare reporting to internal governance committees
• Review, challenge and approve risk records, policy breaches and matters for escalation
• 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).
• Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant regulations by monitor 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 professions 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

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent
- Experience handling confidential information

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Qualification with ICA, ACAMS or similar

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