We are looking for an experienced Senior Manager Internal Audit to oversee audits and risk assessment activities across Worldwide Amazon Stores portfolio with a focus on the Payments business. The Senior Manager Internal Audit will oversee audits and risk assessment activities for financial payments and insurance across Amazon's Worldwide Amazon Stores businesses which encompasses both non-regulated and regulated entities.

In this high visibility role, you will build relationships with senior leaders and will have build strategy to scale approach and processes for financial payments auditing and drive improvements throughout the company. Our Internal Audit team is cross-functional, and you will perform a wide range of financial, technical and operational audits. We are seeking an individual with a strong audit background. Join us and take your audit, risk, leadership experiences and innovative ideas to the next level.

This role has regular interaction with various business units across Amazon and requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. You must be an excellent writer who can succinctly communicate complicated technical and operational issues in business terms. You must be comfortable developing strategy and performing in a highly collaborative environment and working with your peers to accomplish joint projects and meet the objectives of Internal Audit and Amazon. You must be a strong project manager who can manage end-to-end audit projects and borrowed resources, often managing multiple projects at once. You will help Internal Audit recruit from within Amazon and externally and with a passion for helping auditors expand their knowledge of the business, develop risk, analytical and auditing skills, improve their judgement and leadership capabilities, and grow their careers.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate high judgement, clear communication, creative approaches, the ability to think big, a consistent track record of delivering results and hiring and developing the best. You will thrive in a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic environment, and you will effectively work autonomously in an ambiguous environment and be able to lead and develop cross functional teams

This role requires ability to travel up to 30%.

Key job responsibilities
The Sr. Manager Internal Audit will lead and develop a scalable strategy for auditing a complex and large area such as financial payments while adapting to an evolving business and regulatory environment.

- You will be responsible for leading the strategy for Internal Audit approach and risk assessment activities for financial payments and insurance across Amazon’s Worldwide Stores lines of business.
- You will meet with senior leaders to understand the business and leverage multiple sources of business data to help you assess risks.
- You will use the risk assessment, your high judgement, and experience to identify potential audits and influence the audit pipeline and resource allocation both short term and long term.
- You will be responsible for responses to external agencies and regulators.
- You will lead engagement and reporting to boards at a country and entity level.
- You will oversee a portfolio of audits and will mentor and support Audit Managers and Lead Auditors to help them scope, plan and execute high-quality and impactful audits, which address the most important opportunities/risks.
- You will insist on the highest standards for your team and your audits, and you will be able to dive deep into every audit area, apply broad technical knowledge, sound business judgment, and partner with key stakeholders.
- You will understand complex business processes, system workflows, and technology to be able to identify the full range of risks relevant to the businesses and to help guide business owners in defining effective and value-added risk mitigation plans.

A day in the life
The Senior Internal Audit Manager works strategically to identify risks across the businesses. From the ongoing risk assessment, they create and prioritize audits for their teams. Throughout the audit process, they ensure clarity for their audit teams. The Sr. Manager balances quality and speed in audits, helping their team use resources most effectively to identify risk. The Sr. Manager guides and develops the audit team and provides support to clear barriers for their team.

Internal Audit for Worldwide Amazon Stores provides an opportunity to learn the breadth of the WW Amazon Stores businesses and systems across Amazon.


About the team
At Amazon we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth, and that includes protecting our customers and their data. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Internal Audit is a global, fast paced, dynamic team. We are one of many mechanisms at the company with the aim of continuous improvement. We look across the entire company at business, finance, and operational processes and the technologies that support them, evaluating risks that could harm our customers, the company, or prevent us from achieving objectives.