Amazon's Travel & Expense Reimbursement Audit (TERA) team is seeking a Risk Specialist II (L5) who combines deep investigative expertise with a builder's mindset and a relentless focus on operational excellence. This role is pivotal to TERA's automation roadmap — you will investigate complex expense fraud, abuse, and waste (FAW) cases with rigor and depth, independently design and prototype scalable, user-friendly investigation tools using AI, and systematically eliminate non-productive work that drains investigator capacity.

A core mandate of this role is to raise investigation quality while reducing wasted effort — by identifying and eliminating false positives in detection rules, streamlining multi-touch-point processes into effective single-pass workflows, and building the tooling and frameworks that make every investigator more effective.

This role sits at the intersection of domain expertise and technology — you will be the bridge between what investigators need and what automation can deliver,



with a constant eye on removing friction and non-value-add work from the investigation lifecycle.

Key job responsibilities
- Conduct end-to-end deep-dive investigations of complex FAW cases across transactional data, OCR receipts, badge scans, and travel records; identify patterns, perform root-cause analysis, and deliver evidence-based findings.
- Measure and test risk controls to inform program-level risk assessment; identify gaps in methodology and escalate with recommended solutions.
- Serve as the domain SME for your investigation area — stay current on fraud trends, regulatory changes, and industry best practices and apply insights across teams.
- Analyze detection rule outputs to systematically reduce false positives through threshold calibration, exception logic, and contextual filters — ensuring investigators focus on genuine risk signals.
- Define and own investigation quality frameworks and metrics (QC scores, rework rates, disposition accuracy); drive imp

📌 Risk Manager II, Travel and Expense Reimbursement Audit (Hyderabad)
🏢 Amazon
📍 Hyderabad