Fraud Examiners, Investigators & Analysts
Fraud Examiners, Investigators & Analysts
Career outlook for
Fraud Examiners, Investigators & Analysts
What's it like?
Plan, initiate, and manage information technology (IT) projects. Lead and guide the work of technical staff. Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects. Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage. Monitor progress to assure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met.
Working conditions
Tasks
- Document all investigative activities.
- Prepare written reports of investigation findings.
- Analyze financial data to detect irregularities in areas such as billing trends, financial relationships, and regulatory compliance procedures.
- Gather financial documents related to investigations.
- Interview witnesses or suspects and take statements.
- Review reports of suspected fraud to determine need for further investigation.
- Conduct in-depth investigations of suspicious financial activity, such as suspected money-laundering efforts.
- Lead, or participate in, fraud investigation teams.
- Prepare evidence for presentation in court.
- Coordinate investigative efforts with law enforcement officers and attorneys.
- Testify in court regarding investigation findings.
- Recommend actions in fraud cases.
- Evaluate business operations to identify risk areas for fraud.
- Create and maintain logs, records, or databases of information about fraudulent activity.
- Maintain knowledge of current events and trends in such areas as money laundering and criminal tools and techniques.
- Advise businesses or agencies on ways to improve fraud detection.
- Negotiate with responsible parties to arrange for recovery of losses due to fraud.
- Train others in fraud detection and prevention techniques.
- Design, implement, or maintain fraud detection tools or procedures.
- Conduct field surveillance to gather case-related information.
- Research or evaluate new technologies for use in fraud detection systems.
- Arrest individuals to be charged with fraud.
- Obtain and serve subpoenas.
Top Skills
- Reading Comprehension.
- Instructing.
- Writing.
- Speaking.
- Active Listening.
- Critical Thinking.
- Persuasion.
- Learning Strategies.
- Monitoring.
- Judgment and Decision Making.
- Complex Problem Solving.
- Service Orientation.
- Social Perceptiveness.
- Time Management.
- Coordination.
- Management of Personnel Resources.
- Negotiation.
- Active Learning.
Programs
Bachelor degree in Finance , Financial Mathematics
Average Salary
7581/ Month