Senior Risk Mitigation Specialist

This position plays a crucial role in risk management by ensuring compliance throughout our recruitment and onboarding processes, with a focus on the AI space. The Senior Risk Mitigation Specialist will analyze recruitment and onboarding data to identify suspicious activities, they will conduct investigations and implement preventative measures to keep illegitimate activity in our recruitment processes at a minimum. This role will be responsible for continuously reviewing and improvement risk mitigation processes to ensure they are in line with the organization’s standards of compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Detect and identify fraudulent activities through data analysis and trend examination.
• Engage in constant monitoring and evaluation of applications transactions to pinpoint irregularities.
• Collaborating with Talent Finders to coach colleagues in fraud awareness, risk mitigation and prevention.
• Conducting in-depth investigations into identified fraud instances
• Investigate flagged transactions to determine their legitimacy
• Review data and conduct analysis to decide upon the viability of new fraud rules
• Contact applicants to verify suspicious transactions and gather necessary information
• Document and maintain detailed records of all investigations and actions taken
• Liaise with senior stakeholders in other areas (i.e.: Legal, Privacy, Security) to report on results and outcome of investigations
• Engage with Systems and IT teams to report on flags identified in current processes, and follow up on development of requested features / functionalities to support process improvement

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree a relevant field or equivalent experience
• +7 years of experience in a relevant role
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to liaise with and influence senior stakeholders
• Highly analytical skills, reliable and systematic
• Ability to work with data, analyze it and draw relevant conclusions / provide recommendations and reports.
• Able to execute in a high-volume, fast paced environment
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. 

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. 

RWS Values 

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

Recruitment Agencies: RWS Holdings PLC does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees.  Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.