Amazon is seeking a data-driven, highly motivated, eager to identify threat actors, and organized Investigator of Retail Fraud. The selected individual will support investigations within Vendor & Transaction Accuracy’s (VITA), EU Retail Fraud program. This role will focus on EU investigations.

The team is responsible for detecting and preventing fraudulent payments to suppliers, vendors, and employees globally. The team is uniquely situated within Finance Operations and uses signals in transactional data such as invoices and payments as indicators of theft, fraud, waste or abuse. We are looking for a data-driven, strong risk manager who has a proven track record of investigating complex fraud schemes, understanding fraud behavior and knowledge of fraud prevention. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing investigations end-to-end, investigating external threats, and emerging fraud schemes. This individual will ensure Amazon's Finance Operations stays ahead of risks while working collaboratively and effectively with multiple stakeholders, businesses, and leaders.

A successful candidate must have a passion for fraud prevention, advanced analytics, and be able to drive efficiencies with those around them through effective lateral and upward management. The Retail Fraud Prevention program is one of many fraud prevention programs in Finance Operations with the ultimate goal of preventing fraud, waste, and abuse across Amazon. The leader will work with global Corporate AP, Finance, Legal, and technical support teams. A successful candidate is a seasoned investigator, comfortable working with using data to derive patterns and assumptions, and communicating recommendations and findings to stakeholders. The ideal candidate must be able to write complex case summaries with clear recommendations for stakeholders.



Key job responsibilities
• Carry out the vision and mission of VITA to prevent, detect, and investigate issues of erroneous payments to vendors
• Execute complex investigations, deep dives and special projects in a timely manner while communicating recommendations and findings to management and other stakeholders
• Review digital evidence, documents and other sources of information
• Investigates complex emerging fraud trends and works to understand system impact using internal and external data analysis.
• Collect, analyze and preserve evidence for referral to legal or police
• Summarize evidence, facts and next steps to leaders at all levels in periodic business reviews
• Identify new fraud schemes and MOs to develop prototypes and systems that detect and prevent fraud
• Exercise judgement and bias for action to escalate incidents of fraud in a highly controlled environment
• Demonstrate effective writing through clear, concise and persuasive narrative creation that documents complex fraud investigations.
• Base pay for this position starts from EUR 3,916.00 gross per month and salary depends on the skills and requirements, there will be further pay components such as a sign on bonus and the eligibility to participate in a restricted stock unit scheme operated independently by Amazon.com Inc. in USA. Company benefits apply subject to further terms, including annual membership in medical clinic, life insurance, retirement pension, meal voucher card, career development





About the team
We have a mission to prevent erroneous payments globally for Amazon. Our customers are Amazon's shareholders as well as the teams that we support to close investigations. The individual will lead the India Operations team and will proactively close open investigations while inventing new ways to detect fraud. The individual will work with team members all over the globe including U.S., Costa Rica, Slovakia, India and U.K.