5 Safety Regulations jobs in the United Arab Emirates

Regulatory Reporting – Standards and Control Manager (UAE National)

Join HSBC and grow your career in a role that offers opportunities for advancement and impact. We are looking for a dedicated professional to lead the embedding of the regulatory reporting process framework in the UAE.

Role Purpose:

Lead the implementation of the regulatory reporting process framework in the UAE by:

• Driving strategic regulatory reporting initiatives in UAE
• Coordinating and delivering end-to-end regulatory reporting processes
• Maintaining oversight of the regulatory reporting inventory in the UAE
• Creating playbooks and overseeing the delivery of key regulatory reports (RBS, EWRA, BRFs, etc.) that require bank-wide coordination
• Acting as the SME and single point of contact for specific regulatory reporting requirements across all lines of business and functions
• Leading transformation efforts and implementing effective changes in UAE regulatory reporting and notification processes
• Embedding policies, procedures, and target operating models related to regulatory reporting in the UAE
• Driving initiatives to enhance regulatory reporting practices
• Engaging with second line of defense functions to scope and manage new reporting requirements

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing an optimal, scalable bank-wide operating model for regulatory reporting
• Identifying and managing new reporting requirements in collaboration with 2LoD Stewards and industry bodies
• Coordinating and delivering the end-to-end reporting process, including submission management and handling queries from regulators
• Validating report submissions through data assurance and analytical reviews, and conducting quality assurance reviews
• Managing ad-hoc regulatory reporting tasks and maintaining the report inventory
• Overseeing strategic regulatory reporting deliverables and ensuring effective control policies
• Ensuring accuracy and integrity of regulatory returns
• Minimizing risks by establishing strong control frameworks
• Engaging with key stakeholders including COO, CRO, CCO, and compliance teams
• Providing status updates to governance forums and ensuring efficient BAU reporting

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Description
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. One focus area of the Amazon Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) mission is to provide tools, resources, and environments that support safe, efficient, and healthy behaviors and encourage employees to proactively manage their health and wellbeing. To support this focus area and given the rapid business growth across Africa, Middle East and Turkey (AMET), Amazon is seeking an experienced Health & Safety Professional to join our team. This individual will play a critical role in driving operational implementation of WHS projects/programs across AMET. This individual will execute WHS projects/programs as well as drive WHS operational excellence for our business. The role will identify and facilitate best practice sharing across the organization and incorporate these best practices into our standards. It will also actively benchmark and seek solutions to help solve current and future business challenges. This role is expected to travel throughout AMET countries and be able to work flexible hours, which could include day, nights, and weekends and supporting WHS field teams during peaks. This role, based in AMET supporting all business types and will support all networks to execute towards our goals of safety excellence.
Key job responsibilities
The extent of your duties will include:
- Leading the development of the Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) 3-year forecast (3YF) strategic plan, setting annual quantitative and qualitative goals and supporting AMET operations with the implementation of the plan
- Reporting to the business on progress against the WHS 3YF plan, both analytical tracking of numerical metrics and goals and providing narrative of qualitative project delivery
- Proactively collaborating on the development of a Health and Safety Management system, ensuring global and regional standards and procedures meet local and regional WHS legislation and best practice
- Managing local documentation control requirements in accordance with the management system structure, supporting documentation, forms and templates.
- Support in the implementation of local WHS legislative and Amazon WHS procedure requirements, across all AMET sites. Ensuring site teams understand the requirements and building action plans to close any compliance gaps
- Proactively collaborating with Amazon Audit and Inspections team, aligning on annual audit and inspections plans, supporting site teams through the audit program, agreeing appropriate corrective and preventative actions and tracking through to completion
- Proactively collaborating on Health and Safety projects, providing authoritative guidance on Health & Safety compliance to all stakeholders
About the team
The Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) department, also known as the Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) department, plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety and well-being of employees within Amazon. The WHS team is responsible for developing and implementing health and safety policies and procedures, conducting risk assessments and audits, and investigating accidents and incidents to determine the causes and propose measures to prevent future occurrences. They also have an advisory role for associates and managers in the field of Amazon's legal procedures and requirements. The WHS team is comprised of Safety Specialists, Injury Prevention Specialists, Onsite Medical Representatives, and Hazardous Materials personnel who work together to uphold and advance Amazon's Global Workplace Health and Safety System. The WHS Audit Team conducts systematic evaluations to assess adherence to health and safety standards, mitigate risks, and foster a culture of proactive safety awareness. By identifying potential hazards and recommending corrective measures, the WHS team plays a pivotal role in safeguarding employees' well-being and minimizing workplace incidents.
Basic Qualifications
- Degree level Diploma in Health and Safety Management
- You have significant experience as WHS Compliance Manager, ideally gained in the Middle East Region
- Flexible approach to work, while always managing your own priorities and workload,
- You're able to effectively lead and manage a project, as well as influence peer and other stakeholders
- You possess excellent English writing and oral communication and influencing skills
- You're also comfortable communicating at all levels of seniority within a large organization,
- You possess an in-depth understanding of Health and Safety legislation and management systems
- You can quickly build credibility, using your influencing skills and strategies to build buy-in for change,
- Fluent English language skills
- Arabic writing/verbal beneficial
Preferred Qualifications
- You possess experience of Lean, 5S and Kaizen methodologies,
- Qualifications or experience of environmentally-conscious initiatives would be advantageous.
- Experience with logistics and road safety (long haul and middle mile) ·
- Multi-country experience
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Description
Our vision is to protect customers from products that are illegal, unsafe or non-compliant. The Compliance and Safety team for the Middle East, Africa, and Türkiye Region is looking for a Risk Manager to manage our product and food compliance policies to protect our customers from unsafe products in the MEA region.
This role is responsible for creating and driving a roadmap of risk policies and controls across business, legal, compliance, operations, tech, and other cross-functional teams globally. This role owns program level metrics and ensures success by leading risk initiatives, prioritization discussions, and reporting.
Key job responsibilities
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key internal stakeholders globally, including Legal, Product Safety Policy, Operations, and Category Management teams to ensure alignment on compliance & safety strategies and initiatives
- Partner with cross-functional teams to define clear project requirements, establish timelines, manage dependencies, and ensure successful and timely execution
- Own and drive initiatives to proactively improve Selling Partner experience, focusing on reducing friction by streamlining processes, simplifying requirements, and enhancing communication
- Identify, design, and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the compliance & safety program, leveraging automation and data analytics where possible to eliminate manual processes and create scalable solutions
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and success metrics, develop reporting mechanisms, and regularly communicate progress, risks, and mitigation plans to cross-functional leadership.
- Deep dive specific product safety and compliance requirements (e.g. external regulatory and internal Amazon policy requirements) and make data-driven compliance solution
- Develop and improve mechanisms for continuous improvement on product safety, compliance and customer trust.
A day in the life
The Risk Manager is a key driver of Amazon's compliance and safety programs. The role works across multiple global stakeholders, including operations and tech, to drive a large portfolio of key deliverables that are tracked at an executive level.
About the team
The MEA Compliance & Safety team is charged with protecting Amazon customers from illegal, prohibited and unsafe products. Our customers trust us to ensure a trustworthy shopping experience and provide a safe shopping environment for them and their families.
Basic Qualifications
- 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
- Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
- Master's degree or equivalent
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.