AWS Japan Security Assurance Risk Manager, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of services offered by AWS. At our scale, we invent new ways to provide the highest level of assurance to our most security conscious customers. Our team works closely with customers across industries and their auditors and regulatory agencies to understand the security shift from on-premise to the cloud, security of the cloud and customer capabilities in the cloud. Our Security Assurance Risk Managers ensure that AWS can meet customers audit, assurance, and regulatory expectations. We are looking for an independent, passionate, and experienced Risk Managers for developing and implementing technology audits and assurance programs for Japan. You will be responsible for defining and developing an audit and assurance program for our customers and countries in Japan. You will also be assisting in gathering audit evidence supporting audit managers in other parts of Asia Pacific. At our scale, we are committed to inventing new ways to provide the highest level of assurance to our most security conscious customers. You should have prior experience in audit programs and evidence. We expect team members and management alike to take a high degree of ownership for their program, vision and execution. You will have an opportunity to work directly with most divisions across AWS as we build the tools and evidence needed to demonstrate assurance for our customers. This role is responsible for AWS' flagship audit, attestations, certifications, and regulatory analysis in Japan.

Key job responsibilities
*Participating in assurance engagements as an SME for Japan
*Lead and manage areas of examination with excellent project management skills.
*Communicate to team leads on the status and key deliverables of team initiatives, seek diverse opinions and coordinate improvement efforts.
*Fielding and addressing requests for team support in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
*Dive deep into the operations of AWS compliance programs to develop broad domain and technical understanding of regulatory and customer expectations to drive process improvement initiatives.

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of services offered by AWS. At our scale, we invent

- 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience handling confidential information

- 3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience
- Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
- Experience with SQL and Excel

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