Amazon India | Senior Fraud Investigator, Fraud Investigation, Recovery and Enforcement

Responsibilities

• You'll work with sophisticated transactional data to identify emerging fraud schemes, lead complex investigations, and develop detection systems that stop fraud before it impacts our business.
• As an Investigator for Retail Fraud Prevention, you'll dive into complex financial data to uncover patterns that signal potential fraud, waste, or abuse in our vendor payment processes.
• This role sits at the intersection of data analysis and investigative work, where your insights directly influence how we protect Amazon's financial operations.
• The individual will investigate complex financial fraud cases 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.
• Conduct thorough investigations into suspected fraudulent vendor payments, analyzing complex datasets and digital evidence to identify patterns and build comprehensive cases.
• Develop and implement detection systems and prototypes that identify new fraud schemes and prevent fraudulent payments from entering our financial system.
• Prepare detailed case summaries and evidence documentation with clear findings and recommendations for stakeholders, Legal, and law enforcement referrals.
• Communicate investigation results and strategic recommendations to senior leaders through periodic business reviews and updates.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline investigation processes, improve efficiency, and establish reporting systems that support investigation goals.
• You'll design new detection systems and refine investigation processes to improve how our team operates.

Qualifications

• Experience with advanced use of Excel and using statistical analysis applications, or experience with Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influencing decisions, or experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance & Accounting, Business economics or a Bachelor's degree or equivalent and experience in multiple finance and accounting roles.
• Experience applying AI and machine learning to build detection mechanisms, automate investigation workflows, and reduce cycle time.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large datasets and identify patterns indicative of fraud or financial irregularities.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to document complex investigations clearly and concisely.
• Advanced use of Excel and statistical analysis applications, experience with Microsoft office including Outlook, Word and Excel.
• Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles/Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvement or equivalent.
• Knowledge of SQL at the intermediate level.
• Background in financial crime investigation or forensic accounting.
• Knowledge of intermediate SQL

Amazon India

Amazon.com, Inc. was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookshop and is today one of the world's largest companies, spanning online retail, cloud computing through Amazon Web Services (AWS), digital media, devices and advertising. It is headquartered in Seattle and listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Amazon launched its Indian marketplace, Amazon.in, in 2013, and its businesses in India now include the marketplace, Amazon Pay, Amazon Business, Prime Video and AWS, which runs two Indian cloud regions — Mumbai (2016) and Hyderabad (2022). Its Hyderabad campus, opened in 2019, was at the time Amazon's largest campus building anywhere in the world.

Beyond serving Indian customers, Amazon's India offices handle a significant share of the company's global finance work: finance operations (accounts payable, receivables and payments), controllership and accounting, worldwide direct and indirect tax reporting, financial planning and business finance for its retail, AWS and payments businesses, and audit, risk and compliance programmes. These roles suit CA, CMA, CPA, ACCA and MBA (Finance) profiles as well as B.Com and M.Com graduates.

• Industry: E-commerce, cloud computing (AWS), digital payments and logistics
• Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, USA (parent: Amazon.com, Inc.); India operations based in Bengaluru
• In India: Corporate offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurugram, Mumbai and Pune, with fulfilment and delivery centres across India