
Risk Manager II, Relay Product Excellence
Job Description
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
- Detailed knowledge of related accounts identification
- Provide data analysis, conduct complex investigations and review investigations.
- Pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, SQL and/or other database), understanding of agentic AI 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 the patterns from the investigations and the data analysis
- 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
Amazon - Middle Mile is seeking a Risk Specialist to assist with identity verification and fraud mitigation for daily freight movements flowing into and out of our North American fulfillment centers and
- 5+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
- Bachelor's degree in Food Science or related field
- Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent
- Experience with research and investigation skills 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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