Risk Manager, Amazon Payment Services, Buyer Risk

1. 3+ years’ experience working in a payment gateway, payment processor, payment aggregator, bank or payments industry related institution 2. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. 3. Strong written and verbal communication skills 4. Strong attention to detail and organizational skills. 5. Strong problem solving, initiative and follow-through skills. 6. Experience working with geographically distributed teams within a complex international organization 7. Knowledge of the payment industry, regulatory compliance landscape, and of credit and debit payments systems 8. Ability to effectively communicate in written and verbal form across functional groups within the company, with clients, customers and vendors, as well as senior management. 9. Ability to manage through influence 10. Strong analytical skills (Excel skills is a must) 11. Bachelor's degree from a reputed university 12. Experience working in a risk and control capacity with engineering teams and technical functions. 13. Knowledge in card-not-present payments, fraud-prevention, buyer & merchant risk management and/or chargeback management.

Job summary
Are you customer obsessed, flexible, smart and analytical, execution focused and passionate about e-payments?

Amazon Payment Services (APS) is a leading payment service provider in MENA region with operations spanning across 8 countries and technically integrated with 14 acquirers and 18 issuers, offers online payment services to thousands of merchants. APS team is trying to build a robust execution and management process for driving the best payment experience on & off Amazon. While we are working towards launching innovative ways to pay and with the most friction less manner, we understand payments to customers & sellers is a key enabler in building trust.
We are looking for a fraud-prevention specialist who can become a key contributor in our fight against financial crime

Key job responsibilities
1. Executes against established SOPs and identify opportunities for process improvement
2. Identify gaps in controls and processes
3. Design program controls and testing mechanisms in collaboration with internal teams
4. Consult legal for guidance on specific use cases or escalations
5. Establish SOPs, process controls, recommend revisions and ensure alignment with risk and regulatory requirements.
6. Observe, escalates & resolve gaps in processes or controls
7. Communicates and defends processes and controls to peers in partner organizations
8. Perform deep dive analysis and creates COE based on identified deviations and recommends appropriate solutions.
9. Measures key metrics, process or control risk to inform product and program level risk assessment and own weekly/monthly metrics and process reviews with internal and external stakeholders
11. Earns trust of peers by understanding operational processes related to risk management programs and product offerings
12. Makes recommendations as inputs into product and technology roadmap discussions
13. Research and recommend innovative technology solutions to management
14. Implement operational program controls by creating project plans
15. Identifies, prioritizes and coordinates work streams necessary
16. Influences internal teams to uphold and maintain program control
17. Recommend to product and technical teams improvements to technical risk management solutions to drive program efficiencies

**Preferred but not mandatory qualifications**: 1. Fraud investigator, risk, compliance or similar certification 2. Master's degree from a reputed business school 3. 5+ years’ experience working in a payment gateway, payment processor or payment aggregator 4. Experienced in working for a start up as well as a multi-national tech firm