Amazon is seeking a data-driven, highly motivated, eager to identify threat actors, and organized Investigator of Corporate Fraud Prevention. The selected individual will support investigations within Vendor & Transaction Accuracy’s (VITA), Corporate Fraud program.
The team is responsible for detecting and preventing fraudulent payments to suppliers, vendors, and employees globally. The team is uniquely situated within Finance Operations and uses signals in transactional data such as invoices and payments as indicators of theft, fraud, waste or abuse. We are looking for a technical minded, data-driven, strong risk leader who has a proven track record of investigating vendor fraud in procure-to-pay lifecycle and building systems to detect fraud the moment it hits the financial system. The chosen leader will take ownership of fraud investigations and has a proven track record of managing investigations end-to-end and developing other fraud investigators to root out bad actors, external threats, and emerging fraud schemes. This individual will ensure Amazon's Finance Operations stays ahead of risks while working collaboratively and effectively with multiple stakeholders, businesses, and leaders.
A successful candidate must have a passion for fraud prevention, advanced fraud detection techniques, analytics, and be able to drive efficiencies with those around them through effective lateral and upward management. The Corporate Fraud Prevention program is one of many fraud prevention programs in Finance Operations with the ultimate goal of preventing fraud, waste, and abuse across Amazon. The leader will work with global Corporate AP, Finance, Legal, and technical support teams. This is a highly visible role, and a successful candidate is a seasoned investigator, comfortable working with data to derive patterns and assumptions, communicating recommendations and findings to senior leaders at a high level in weekly, monthly or quarterly updates. The ideal candidate must be able to write complex case summaries with clear recommendations for Legal, management or Law Enforcement referral.
Key job responsibilities
- Carry out the vision and mission of VITA to prevent, detect, and investigate issues of erroneous payments to vendors
- Execute complex investigations, deep dives and special projects in a timely manner while communicating recommendations and findings to management and other stakeholders
- Review digital evidence, documents and other sources of information
- Collect, analyze and preserve evidence for referral to legal or police
- Summarize evidence, facts and next steps to leaders at all levels in periodic business reviews
- Conduct interviews with witnesses and key persons of interest to support investigations (both remote and in person)
- Drive productivity across teams that support investigations by creating efficient processes and reporting to meet goals
- Identify new fraud schemes and MOs to develop prototypes and systems that detect and prevent fraud
- Exercise judgement and bias for action to escalate incidents of fraud in a highly controlled environment
- Demonstrate effective writing through clear, concise and persuasive narrative creation that documents complex fraud investigations, new program ideas, and periodic senior leadership updates
- Understand and follow Amazon's policies and procedures on invoice entry and transaction processing for Corporate vendors highest levels of controllership
A day in the life
40-50% of time is complex investigations, escalations. Works with full autonomy on investigations, and can complete an investigation end to end with little direction. Partners with senior stakeholders on root cause analysis and closure of remediation efforts. 30% of time is spent with prototypers, tech or both to develop future prototypes based on new and existing fraud schemes. Lead on VITA resource for supporting law enforcement referrals.
About the team
We have a mission to prevent erroneous payments globally for Amazon. Our customers are Amazon's shareholders as well as the teams that we support to close investigations. The individual will lead the India Operations team and will proactively close open investigations while inventing new ways to detect fraud. The individual will work with team members all over the globe including U.S., Costa Rica, Slovakia, India and U.K. - Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 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
- 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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