# Risk Analyst

**Company**: Amazon
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456085

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## Description

Have you ever thought about what it takes to detect and prevent fraudulent activity in hundreds of millions of eCommerce transactions across the globe?

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

**Key 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.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- 1+ years of business or financial analysis experience

- Experience with SQL or ETL

- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree or above in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science, or PhD

- 1+ years of professional work experience, or experience in SQL or other relational databases

- Knowledge of a scripting language (Python, R, etc.)

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- ETL
- data analysis
- business insights

### Nice to have
- Python
- R
- statistics
- mathematics
- data science
- business analytics
- economics
- finance
- engineering
- computer science

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