Amazon - Risk Specialist I - Travel Expense & Reimbursement Audit

Amazon is seeking a Risk Specialist I, TERA (Travel Expense & Reimbursement Audit) to support the Finance Operation's Risk Management and fraud detection Services in Accounts Payable at Amazon.

This individual must have a passion for leadership; driving efficiencies with those around them. This individual must have good process knowledge, data analysis, auditing and interpersonal skills.

Key job responsibilities

- Carry out the team's vision to prevent, detect, and investigate issues of potential fraud, abuse, and waste by employees' expenses within the company. This involves taking ownership of the operational aspects of programs, such as conducting expense dive deeps and performing quality reviews of case documentation.

- Execute audits and special projects in a timely manner while communicating recommendations and findings to management and other stakeholders

- Maintain productivity targets and timelines and understand and follow Amazon's policies and procedures on expense reimbursements and corporate cards

- Identify and clearly define issues and root causes for the potential fraud and financial abuse by the employees and provide recommendations on controls to mitigate the risk.

- Reduce False positive and develop efficiency metrics reports for leadership review

- Run effective meetings and able to convey high-level plans. Their verbal and written style are clear and concise. Able to transform raw thoughts into clear documentation and requirements

- Identify red flags in spend patterns by independently analyzing employee expenses and conducting Deep Dives, coordinating with stakeholders with minimal oversight. Execute projects in a timely manner while communicating recommendations and findings to management and other stakeholders. Take Ownership of the entire investigation life cycle.

- Design program controls and testing mechanisms in collaboration with internal teams and provide continuous feedback to BI & Analytics, AP Expense and policy team to improve their process and close these gaps. Also, as necessary, the individual is responsible for creating Standard Operating Processes (SOPs).

A day in the life

A day in the life will consist of reviewing expense lines submitted by employees for reimbursements and historically reviewing the patterns of submission and taking decision on approval/rejection. Identifying expense lines which may have Fraud indicators and flagging them for dive deep and providing feedback to upstream system for improvement in system logic to reduce false positive.

Candidate should be comfortable working from office and shifts of 1 pm-10 pm