Risk Specialist I, Relay Product Excellence
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Investigate suspicious activity, mitigate fraud risks, and perform data analysis for Amazon's middle mile transportation network.
Amazon is looking for a Risk Specialist that has a background in transportation, risk management and data driven problem resolution skills. In this role the Risk Specialist will continuously work with stakeholders to build trust-based relationships in order to investigate suspicious activity and address escalations while creating long-term, systemic solutions for a world-class customer experience. In this role, the Risk Specialist will be responsible for a wide range of duties related to identity verification.
Key job responsibilities
- Understanding of related accounts identification
- Provide data analysis & conduct investigations
- Pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, SQL and/or other database) and to perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed
- Take appropriate action to identify and help minimize the risk posed by fraud or abuse patterns and trends
- Identify and eliminate root causes of defects in order to drive efficiency in Amazon’s transportation operations
- Understand the business impact of the trends and make decisions that make sense based on available data
- Knowledge to systematically escalate problems or variance in the information and data to the relevant owners and teams
- Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs, while measuring and identifying activities performed
- Written and verbal communication experience, as you will be required to create a narrative outlining your weekly findings and the variances to goals, and present these finding in a review forum
- Participate in ad-hoc projects and assignments as necessary
- Partner with cross functional teams across Amazon for collaboration on fraud risks and investigations
- Apply risk management best practices to mitigate issues, identify operational inefficiencies and improve processes
A day in the life
- Define SOPs, document new methods of abuse/frauds, and partner with stakeholder teams to drive gaps to closure
- Constantly monitor metrics to identify deviations, and spot emerging frauds/ MOs that are adopted by bad actors
- Drive program/ process goals independently with minimal to no intervention from leadership
- Partner with multiple fraud/abuse teams to learn and implement industry wide best practices and other identity verification mechanisms
Basic qualifications
- 2+ years of logistics operations experience
- 3+ years of identity verification/fraud detection process experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Knowledge of and proficiency in Excel and SQL
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working with data warehousing, data quality
- Experience using data to drive root cause elimination and process improvement
- Experience using data and trends to articulate business needs or equivalent
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- Tell me about a project where risk management was part of your work. What did you do?
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