Proactive Fraud Investigator with extensive experience in corporate security, specializing in investigating fraudulent activities and ensuring compliance with legal standards. Expert in developing strategies to mitigate financial institution risks, conducting thorough investigations, and maintaining detailed case records. Skilled in fraud prevention, evidence collection, and delivering comprehensive investigative reports.
Experienced with a strong background in financial crime detection and prevention. Skilled in data analysis, risk assessment and conducting thorough investigations. Proven track record of uncovering fraudulent activities and implementing effective solutions. Track record of maintaining compliance with legal standards and providing reliable results.
• Investigate all known or suspected fraudulent and other criminal activities against the organization.
• Ensuring that proper organizational standards/legal requirements are followed.
• Conducts logical investigations of financial institution fraud.
• Monitor existing, new and emerging criminal trends as they relate to financial institutions and develop strategies to protect the organization from these criminal initiatives.
• Maintain an effective fraud program and provide ongoing support and training in all matters of security.
• Coordinate and professionally handle and facilitate recovery of losses through civil processes. This includes maintaining a fraud database to pro-actively identifying potential risks/losses due to criminal activities.
• Maintain the fraud program including investigating suspicious transactions and referring suspicious.
transactions to the police as well as assisting in establishing the integrity of potential/established customers.
• Prepare status reports for management and final reports on investigative results.
• Review documents, interview employees and third parties as required.
• Responsible for statement writing and testifying in court trials.
• Analyze, research and evaluate various sources of information to determine vulnerabilities.
• Assess and identify immediate and isolated risk and prioritize items for further action for Investigators.
• Prepare preliminary findings for review by Investigators including ordering of photos, link analysis, preparing divesture requests.
• Initiates investigation activity including evidence gathering and documentation with limited direction and support from senior staff.
• Maintain accurate and timely case records.
• Confirm fraudulent transactions within the PRM database.
• Document detailed notes clearly outlining all unauthorized transactions to assist Investigators with unnecessary customer follow-ups and minimize delays.
• Handle internal and external customer inquiries concerning fraudulent issues.
• Receive all incoming files, check for accuracy and content. Enter information and scan all
documentation into the case management system.
• Review all assigned files as directed by Manager.
• Review Client Intentional Fraud Queue.
• Prepare and complete indemnity agreements for recovery opportunities.
• Update and maintain the fraud data base and PPM case management system with new information received.
• Research evolving technologies available to implement preventative solutions as they become available. Keep abreast of current and emerging industry trends, competitor and client updates.
• Monitor detection software and review alerts for suspected fraud and money laundering activities, on a timely basis.
• Check the Interac web site daily for new CPP locations and identify any Tangerine accounts at risk
• Recommend divestitures of clients that may pose a risk to the Institution
• Establish and maintain both internal and external contacts as well as BCPIO industry related contacts
• Maintaining a fraud database to pro-actively identifying potential risks/losses due to criminal activities.
• Make outbound and receive inbound calls to review transactions identified through our fraud detection
software.
• Determine the legitimacy of cardholder and/or authorization request to minimize fraud loss while ensuring negligible customer impact.
• Document detailed notes, clearly outlining all unauthorized transactions to assist the Loss Prevention
Analyst with the investigation to reduce unnecessary customer follow-ups and minimize delays.
• Respond to incoming inquiries, from both merchants and customers, regarding referred, declined and/or
unusual authorization requests.
• Handle internal and external customer inquiries concerning fraudulent issues.
• Receive all incoming files, check for accuracy and content. Enter information and scan all documentation into the case management system.
• Enter all Grid warnings received into the case management system and check client data base for any matches.
• Investigate/analyze all known or suspected debit fraudulent activities against the Bank, ensuring that proper organizational standards/legal requirements are followed.
• Update and maintain the fraud data base with new information received.
• Manage on-going personal development by researching evolving technologies available to implement.
preventative solutions as they become available.
• Perform outbound calls to existing and potential clients.
• Identify common trends and propose solutions that will enhance the customer experience.
• Demonstrate effective call control and use of sales skills.
• Working in a fast pace and high pressure environment.
• Account management (resolving client issues and inquiries).
• Achieved 100% of sales targets while promoting the Bank and it’s products to prospective and existing customers.
• Delivered value-added banking service through top-notch CRM Initiatives.
• Meet and exceed individual and team sales objectives while driving the business forward.
• Selling value-added banking services while providing top-notch customer service.