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Amazon Risk and Compliance Specialist, AWS Financial Services in New York, New York
Description
Please note this role can reside in Seattle or New York.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is rapidly expanding its presence in the enterprise arena with a focus on financial services.
AWS offers global public cloud offerings with a diversity of compliance programs and attestations to enable our customer base.
AWS is looking for independent, passionate, and deeply experienced professionals in the global financial services compliance and governance arena to provide thought leadership in assisting financial institutions to move regulated workloads and data into the cloud by addressing their specific governance, risk, controls (GRC), compliance, security, and regulatory, requirements.
This candidate should be an experienced and innovative security/risk/compliance/governance professional who has the ability to handle a wide range of GRC requirements and can translate those requirements into applications for cloud computing.
The Senior FSI Risk and Compliance Specialist will work directly with AWS partners and financial institutions in adapting their control frameworks to successfully move their IT to the AWS cloud environment.
This key position requires specialized experience supporting financial services sector compliance efforts and will have high visibility at the most senior levels of government agencies, institutions, and AWS including frequent interaction with CISOs, CTOs, CCOs, CROs, their staffs, and AWS senior leadership.
The position, as part of the AWS Worldwide Financial Services team, will act as the primary Governance/Compliance interface for Financial Services institutions.
The candidate will already have, and continue to foster, key relationships, and be able to interpret the impacts of policy changes, and track and report on industry trends.
Key job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Participate in financial services regulatory compliance assessments and relevant control discussions with AWS teams. This includes synthesizing control requirements, and recommending and pursuing alternative approaches assisting customers in developing compliance roadmaps
Develop industry leading compliance related, customer-facing resources based on projected customer needs and current demand
Assist the AWS Security Assurance team in determining the strategic direction of the various AWS compliance programs based on customer interaction and demonstrative metrics
Be and remain connected with industry trends and events. Develop and maintain relationships with key leaders in governance, risk, and compliance at Financial Services institutions
Collaborate with service teams on industry specific requirements that impact components of AWS services
Assist the work of Financial Services institutions’ internal and external auditors or advisors as needed
Keep the AWS Worldwide Financial Services leadership team fully informed of customer engagement status, issues, and activities.
About the team
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
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About The Team
About the broader organization: Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
5+ years of professional or military experience
Bachelor's degree
Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Preferred Qualifications
Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.