Risk Manager, Transportation Controllership

At Amazon we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. Amazon Transportation Controllership team is an operation finance team that controls Amazon's transportation cost. This is achieved through strengthening internal & external systems by working closely with multiple internal stakeholders such as Operations, Procurement, Technology groups and external stakeholders such as carriers. Controllership Team is looking for a Risk Manager III who will own large scale projects to improve processes, drive compliance and insist high standards on how we operate. This is an Individual Contributory role.
Key job responsibilities
Identify, assess, and prioritize potential risks across the organization.
•Develop and implement comprehensive risk management strategies to mitigate identified risks.
•Own the annual strategic planning cycles in partnership with senior leaders. Drive key reporting mechanisms inclusive of business reviews.
• Define controls and processes for our new businesses and adapt/drive new best practices for existing businesses.
•Monitoring, and reporting with the goal of improving efficiencies, compliance policies, and risk management.
•Influence leaders and teams across teams, challenging proposed solutions while advocating for the customers.
•Challenge assumptions of why a process or mechanism failed, ask the questions to get to the root cause of the problem and work for a solve.
•Establish and cultivate a strong working relationship with multiple teams across Amazon to drive process improvement.
- 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
- Master's degree or equivalent
- Experience building cross-functional partnerships and influencing stakeholders across the organization to act without having a direct reporting relationship
- Experience in internal audit and risk management or equivalent
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
- Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
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