Amazon is seeking an experienced compliance professional to lead our second line of defense (2LoD) compliance team in Brazil, based in São Paulo.

To be successful, you will have extensive Anti-Money Laundering (AML) expertise relating to COAF requirements (in the context of e-commerce activities), as well as a detailed understanding of BCB requirements for payments and lending activities (acquiring / money remittance services / lending).

As a leader with 3 direct reports, you will develop compliance strategies and policies to ensure our Store business is compliant with the above regulations, as well as undertake compliance monitoring to understand the health of deployed controls.

Key job responsibilities
- Engage internally across business, legal, operations, and technical teams to understand the upcoming product roadmap and ensure products rolled out are done so with appropriate AML controls. This requires you to advise senior stakeholders on the compliance implications of business decisions, as well as trade-offs based on clear understanding of industry standards.
- Maintain a horizon view of incoming regulations to detect and respond to new regulatory developments and issues that may pose compliance risk; educate management and guide teams in the development of a risk-based and coordinated response across dependent teams.
- Promote a culture of compliance through education and training, proactively engaging with business teams to educate on compliance requirements and the “why” behind regulations.
- Manage the day-to-day functions of the compliance program, including ensuring policies and SOPs are updated, control effectiveness is monitored, and senior management reporting is produced and accurate.
- Manage examination and external audit processes, maintaining productive relationships with external assessors on an ongoing cadence and ensuring timely and accurate response to inquiries.

About the team
Risk and Compliance Solutions (RCS) is Amazon’s Financial Crime and Consumer Protection Compliance gatekeeper for payment entities and activities, protecting buyers, brands and selling partners while allowing the organization to scale safely. RCS designs, builds and manages Compliance Programs at the second-line level ensuring i) regulated and non-regulated RCS entities are compliant with applicable requirements, laws and regulations, ii) Amazon secures and maintains regulated licenses required to operate and, iii) Amazon brands can deliver trusted and valued payment experiences.