Risk Analyst, Amazon Leo - Fraud and Abuse
Redmond, WAJob$83–130K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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The Risk Analyst on Amazon Leo’s Fraud and Abuse team investigates complex cases, validates product capabilities, and defines new fraud scenarios to address emerging threats. The role bridges operations, engineering, and business stakeholders, using investigative judgment and strategic problem-solving to improve detection, enforcement, and prevention. It also provides feedback on tooling and workflows and recommends enhancements to mitigate risk.
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Description
Are you passionate about protecting customers and building trust at scale? Do you thrive at the intersection of fraud and abuse investigation, engineering collaboration, and strategic problem-solving?
As a Risk Analyst within the Leo Fraud and Abuse team, you will serve as a critical bridge between operations, engineering, and business stakeholders. You will be accountable for investigating complex fraud and abuse cases, surfacing and validating product capabilities, and proactively defining new fraud and abuse scenarios to stay ahead of emerging threats. This is not a traditional back-office operations role. You will be expected to think like an investigator and communicate like a strategist, driving measurable impact across the fraud and abuse prevention ecosystem.
Key job responsibilities
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Investigate and adjudicate complex fraud and abuse cases across Account, Identity, Payment Fraud, and Abuse vectors using associated investigation tooling.
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Apply sound judgment and navigate high-risk decisions where outcomes directly impact customer trust, financial exposure, and enforcement integrity.
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Adhere closely to established Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) while constantly questioning assumptions, suggesting improvements, and following up on implementation of those enhancements.
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Collaborate with the Fraud and Abuse product team to deep-dive on escalations and complex edge cases requiring nuanced investigation.
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Provide ongoing feedback to product and engineering stakeholders on tooling gaps, workflow friction points, and opportunities for automation or process simplification.
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Proactively ideate, design, and document new fraud and abuse scenarios based on investigation insights, industry trends, and adversarial thinking to strengthen detection models and enforcement rules.
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Identify gaps in current detection systems, investigation strategies, and enforcement workflows, and recommend enhancements and process improvements to mitigate emerging risks through a collaborative approach with stakeholders.
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Drive innovation in fraud detection and investigation methodologies - challenging the status quo and bringing fresh, creative approaches to problem-solving.
Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Basic Qualifications
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3+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
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3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent
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Experience handling confidential information
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Experience with research and investigation skills or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
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3+ years of program or project management experience
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Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
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Experience with SQL and Excel
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, WA, Redmond - 82,700.00 - 129,800.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 804 open Risk Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$83–130K/yr
- US median$91–130K/yr541 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $106K, is 7% below the US median midpoint ($115K) — in the middle half of Risk Analyst salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 11 open Risk Analyst jobs in Washington and 804 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Risk Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (636 postings).
- Education
- 263 of the 804 open Risk Analyst jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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