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Description

Amazon is seeking a data-oriented transaction Risk Specialist I to support Vendor Investigations & Transactions Accuracy’s (VITA) Digital Fraud Review team. This staff member will join the team responsible of ensuring Amazon's Finance Operations processes stay ahead of erroneous and fraudulent payment risks in the Digital business. This professional will look for suspicious transactions in vendor invoicing, vendor payments, and vendor account creation with the goal of stopping fraud before it occurs. The person will review large datasets within a defined timeline to provide stakeholders with information about vendors.

The candidate must be eager to drive improvements and innovation in detecting possible fraud scenarios by conducting a detailed analysis of large quantities of data. They should have the ability to take ownership and communicate effectively with technical teams to achieve the process objectives. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, has outstanding data analysis and auditing skills, is passionate about inventing new ways to detect fraud, thinks globally, and has the ability to think big to contribute innovative ideas.

Key job responsibilities

• Understand and follow Amazon’s policies and procedures on invoice entry, transaction processing, account creation in Digital.

• Carry out the vision and mission of the VITA team to prevent, detect, and investigate issues of potential fraud scenarios using transactional data.

• Identify and clearly define issues and root causes for the potential fraud and provide recommendations on controls to mitigate the risk.

• Execute audits, deep dives, and special projects in a timely manner while communicating recommendations and findings to management and other stakeholders.

• Collaborate with tech teams to develop and implement analytical models that identify risk patterns, suspicious activities, and emerging trends through data examination and systematic testing

• Propose process improvement ideas and work with other teams to implement solutions to increase controllership.

• Coordinate tasks within team members, including other Finance Operations teams, on any activities assigned to the team as a whole.

• Maintain productivity targets and timelines.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Risk Management, Business, Statistics, Computer Science, or any other quantitative field from an accredited institution.

• 3-5 years of relevant professional experience in Risk Management, Fraud Investigations Analytics, Business Intelligence, or a Data Science.

• Advanced English skills, including excellent business writing.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, including advanced Excel.

• Must be passionate about data analytics and have a natural curiosity and ability to dive deep into large datasets uncovering insights and presenting relevant findings to business partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

• Experience working in a high paced environment with a high degree of ambiguity.

• Experience with reporting and Data Visualization tools such as Quick Sight, Tableau, Power BI or other BI packages.

• Forensic data analysis skills with experience writing SQL queries.

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