Risk Specialist I, Aws Fraud Investigation Team

A Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Minimum of one year of experience in: Fraud, Cyber Crime, Financial Crimes, or Financial Risk Management
- Ability to perform deep investigations on complex, sensitive escalations for numerous internal stakeholders
- Excellent written and oral English communication and presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work effectively in a multi-task, high volume environment
- Ability to be adaptable and flexible in responding to deadlines and workflow fluctuations
- Ability to deal with high level of ambiguity
- Flexibility to work various shifts, including working one weekend day or alternative start-end times, and overtime hours per business needs.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider - from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases - to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. AWS Platform is the glue that holds the AWS ecosystem together. Whether it's identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.
- Are you interested in taking your skills and career to the next level, while having fun and fighting fraud in the cloud? Join a growing world-class team to conduct investigations to prevent malicious and fraudulent usage on AWS.
- You will be an integral member of a team of risk specialists and analysts, conducting complex investigations of fraud activity. You will help drive related intelligence initiatives targeting new and emerging fraud threats to AWS. You can leverage your analytical and data skills to deep dive into a myriad of fraudulent activities to help drive complex investigations and investigative strategies. You will be at the forefront of keeping abreast of trends and fraud issues impacting the Cloud industry to ensure AWS is leading the curve in identifying, mitigating and preventing fraud attacks.

The Risk Specialist position entails shift work, potentially evenings and weekends. Specific shift requirements to be based on the needs of the business. This position relies on judgment to plan and accomplish goals with nearly all decisions expected to be made independently with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail. Individual problem-solving and analytical skills are used to authenticate customer cloud computing behavior and complex transactions in AWS accounts
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Key job responsibilities
- Conduct complex and deep dive investigations of sophisticated criminals and criminal enterprises against a consistent cadence to meet operational metrics while ensuring a high level of decision quality
- Use a combination of manual and automated tools to gather data and conduct ad-hoc investigations
- Work with cross-functional teams across Amazon for collaboration on fraud risks and investigations
- Work with stakeholders to drive process improvements that will impact internal and external customers
- Maintain the confidentiality of all information obtained during the investigations process
- Take on ad-hoc projects/assignments related to fraud investigations as necessary.

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