Risk Manager 1
Amazon
Risk Manager 1
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
As a Risk Manager of the Quality & Audits team, you will be responsible for providing the overall management for a team of employees and direct leadership to the audit and investigation team, overseeing and developing employee performance and process improvement activities. This team conducts quality audits and risk reviews across multiple identity verification and compliance programs with investigatory resources and tools to validate identity. The group has responsibility for taking appropriate actions on accounts to protect Amazon from risk of account takeover and to prevent/mitigate fraud. The team aims and works towards zero fraud, zero account takeovers, zero false positives, and zero scams of any kind. The team seeks the best possible trade-off between customer experience and risk related losses, and when they have to make difficult choices, they will err towards the customer experience.
You will be responsible for building and maintaining SOP's, implementing, managing and reporting through Metrics, Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators through Strategic Leadership and Vision, Daily Operational Management and Continuous Process improvements. You will be responsible for building operational cadences and review mechanisms to enable the team to achieve performance standards. You will have a strong voice in the forecasting accuracy of audits and investigations, the necessary staffing requirements to achieve SLAs, and in ensuring all coaching, training needs are met. You will be a functional Operations owner, who works closely with the global program owners to design and deploy business strategies for enhanced Customer experience, including SLAs, First Contact Resolution, feedback on policies and decision quality and overall tools enhancements.
Key job responsibilities
• Manage a team of auditors and investigators across multiple identity verification and compliance programs
• Provide data analysis and conduct investigations as needed
• Pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, Access, SQL and/or other data management systems) 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
• Identify and eliminate root causes of defects in order to drive efficiency in Amazon's operations
• Understand the business impact of trends and make data-driven decisions based on available data
• Systematically escalate problems or variances in information and data to the relevant owners and teams
• Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs, while measuring and identifying activities performed
• Create narratives outlining weekly findings and variances to goals, and present these findings in review forums
• Achieve operational excellence and drive process improvements
• Develop employees and their skill sets to expand team capabilities
• Manage and execute for defined metrics and quality, maintain clear metrics on audit and investigation handling volumes, performance, and decision quality
• Drive operational efficiencies across all processing areas whilst improving internal and external customer experience
• Willing to work in rotational shifts in a 24x7 environment
About the team
It's no secret that Amazon relies on its technology to deliver millions of packages every day to its customers – on time, with low cost. Within Amazon's middle mile transportation network, our team provides scalable solutions across identity verification, quality audits, and process improvement programs – ensuring operational compliance and protecting the network from fraud and abuse. We proactively monitor processes, conduct risk reviews, and drive continuous improvement across multiple programs serving both North America and Europe. Our mission is zero fraud, zero account takeovers, and zero false positives – while always prioritizing the customer experience. This is a fast-growing, data-driven team where your work has direct, measurable impact.
- Experience with MS Office, MS Excel, and data retrieval languages
- Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent
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Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
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