Amazon is seeking a Investigation Specialist I to assist with identity verification and fraud mitigation for daily freight movements flowing into and out of our North American fulfillment centers and our associated fulfillment network. This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team in a huge growth area for Amazon.

Amazon is looking for a Investigation Specialist I that has a background in transportation, financial risk, AML, risk management and data driven problem resolution skills. In this role the Investigation Specialist I 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 Investigation Specialist I will be responsible for a wide range of duties related to identity verification.



Key job responsibilities
- Provide data analysis & conduct investigations
- Pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, Access, SQL and/or other data management systems) 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
- Consistently achieve weekly targets and quality standards for investigations
- 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
- Experience to follow through on the resolutions to ensure they are delivered
- 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


A day in the life
- Meet productivity, quality and other hygiene metrics/ goals
- Identify opportunities to Invent and Simplify processes, and deliver quicker with higher standards of accuracy
- Define SOPs, document new methods of abuse/frauds, and partner with stakeholder teams to drive gaps to closure
- Extract data independently through SQL queries, dashboards and use them to back up the problem statements/ proposals