Risk Specialist II, TERA (Travel and Expense Reimbursement Audit)

Amazon's Finance Operations Risk Management Services is seeking a Risk Specialist II to join our Travel and Expense Reimbursement Audit (TERA) team within Accounts Payable. In this Individual Contributor role, you will own the execution of risk, audit, fraud detection, and process improvement initiatives across a energetic global business environment.

You will work independently and cross-functionally with business teams, process owners, product teams, and technical teams to identify risks, investigate potential fraud and financial abuse, strengthen controls, and develop scalable solutions that improve controllership and operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical and investigative skills with experience in audit, expense compliance, fraud/risk management, or accounts payable. You should be comfortable working with large datasets, performing deep dives, identifying root causes, and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
Key Responsibilities





Execute pre- and post-reimbursement audits to identify and prevent potential fraud, abuse, waste, policy violations, and financial risks at the earliest possible stage.

Independently conduct risk assessments, audits, deep dives, investigations, and special projects related to employee expense reimbursements and corporate card spend.

Analyze expense and transaction data to identify anomalies, patterns, emerging risks, control gaps, and potential fraudulent activity.

Perform root cause analysis on identified defects and risks and translate findings into actionable recommendations and sustainable control improvements.

Develop and implement data-driven and automated solutions using tools such as Excel, VBA, SQL, Python, Tableau, or similar technologies to improve risk detection and reduce manual effort.

Identify opportunities to improve automated expense audit mechanisms, including increasing detection accuracy and reducing

📌 Risk Specialist II (Hyderabad)
🏢 Amazon
📍 Hyderabad