
Risk Specialist I, 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
- 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
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
- 2+ years of transportation and supply chain experience
- Experience working on identity verification/fraud detection processes
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel at an advanced level, including: pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup, VBA, data links, etc.
- Experience in data mining (SQL, ETL, data warehouse, etc.) and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets
- Experience using data to drive root cause elimination and process improvement
- Experience working with large datasets, determining trends/patterns which can be used for value decisions
- Experience with reporting and Data Visualization tools such as Quick Sight / Tableau / Power BI or other BI packages
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