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Risk Analyst, Buyer Risk Prevention

3 months ago


San Diego, California, United States Amazon Inc Full time
Have you ever thought about what it takes to detect and prevent fraudulent activity in hundreds of millions of eCommerce transactions across the globe? What would you do to increase trust in an online marketplace where millions of buyers and sellers transact? How would you build systems that evolve over time to proactively identify and neutralize new and emerging fraud threats?

Our mission in Buyer Risk Prevention (BRP) is to make the safest place to transact online.

BRP safeguards every financial transaction across all Amazon sites, while striving to ensure that these efforts are transparent to our legitimate customers.

As such, BRP designs and builds the software systems, risk models and operational processes that minimize risk and maximize trust in


As a Risk Analyst in BRP, you will be responsible for analyzing terabytes of data to identify specific instances of risk, broader risk trends and points of customer friction.

You will develop scalable solutions for fraud prevention.

In addition, you will be responsible for building a robust set of operational and business metrics and will utilize metrics to determine improvement opportunities.

Key job responsibilities

Perform complex data analysis to proactively generate actionable insights

Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. within SQL and other BI tools

Design and implement various visual dashboards in order to make insights available to team members, stakeholders and our customers

Support cross-functional teams on the day-to-day execution of projects and initiatives

Enable effective decision making by retrieving and aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a digestible and actionable format

Preparing and delivering business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks

Communicate complex analysis and insights to stakeholders and business leaders, both verbally and in writing

A day in the life

  • Review instances of fraud and create mechanisms to stop them
  • Report on fraud trends and improve products
  • Create and maintain dashboards that detect and inform stakeholders (such as payment product owners) on how to stop fraud
About the team


Our team consists of Business Analysts, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers and Applied Scientist rolling under the core Buyer Risk Prevention Machine Learning Team.

We evaluate instances of organized buyer fraud attacks on Amazon platform WW across various payment methods. We collaborate closely across multiple functions in order to mitigate these attacks through various short and long term solutions.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

San Diego, CA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
1. 1+ years of experience in financial/business analysis

  • Experience with SQL or ETL
  • Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in any quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Mathematics or Economics
  • Proven experience in working with large scale databases and SQL in a business environment
  • Demonstrated experience using scripting languages like R or Python
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $47,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $107,200/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

For more information, please visit Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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