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Global Security Services

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Security Investigation Officers are professionals responsible for investigating security breaches, incidents, or suspicious activities within an organization or facility. They gather and analyze evidence, interview witnesses, and prepare detailed reports to help prevent future incidents and ensure compliance with security policies. Their work is crucial in maintaining safety and protecting assets, people, and sensitive information from potential threats.

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To excel as a Security Investigation Officer, you need a background in criminal justice or security, strong analytical abilities, and experience with investigative procedures. Familiarity with surveillance systems, incident management software, and sometimes certifications like Certified Protection Professional (CPP) are commonly required. Attention to detail, critical thinking, and effective communication are essential soft skills for gathering information and presenting findings. These competencies are vital for conducting thorough investigations, ensuring organizational safety, and supporting legal and regulatory compliance.

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Security Investigation Officers often encounter challenges such as obtaining accurate and timely information from employees, navigating privacy regulations, and ensuring the integrity of digital evidence. Building trust with witnesses while maintaining confidentiality is crucial, as is staying up-to-date with the latest investigative technologies and compliance requirements. These challenges require strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate closely with legal, HR, and IT departments to ensure thorough and lawful investigations.

What is the difference between Security Investigation Officer vs Security Guard?

AspectSecurity Investigation OfficerSecurity Guard
CredentialsSecurity certifications, investigative trainingBasic security or guard license
Work EnvironmentInvestigations, reports, surveillancePatrols, access control, monitoring
Employer & IndustryCorporate, government, private investigationsCommercial, retail, residential security
Search & Comparison IntentUnderstanding investigative roles and skillsBasic security duties and responsibilities

The Security Investigation Officer focuses on conducting investigations, gathering evidence, and reporting security breaches, often requiring specialized training and certifications. In contrast, Security Guards primarily monitor premises, control access, and ensure safety through patrols. While both roles aim to maintain security, the Investigation Officer's role is more investigative and analytical, whereas the Guard's role is more patrol and presence-based.

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Financial Security Investigations Officer

Irwindale, CA • On-site

Rize Beyond Banking
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$16.75 - $19.75/hr

Other

Posted 24 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Manage complex, high-risk, and unusual fraud and financial crime investigations from initial review through resolution.

  • Analyze transactions, account activity, member profiles, system data, and other information to identify suspicious activity and broader risk exposure.

  • Analyze and optimize fraud detection systems, develop fraud analytics, and recommend strategies to improve fraud prevention and detection.

Job description

Position:Financial Security Investigations Officer

Location: 12701 Schabarum Ave

Irwindale, CA

Remote Status: Hybrid

Job Id:249

# of Openings:1

Financial Security Investigations Officer

Location: Irwindale, CA – Rize Credit Union Headquarters
Full-Time | Exempt
Hybrid work arrangement available
Protect More Than Accounts. Help Shape How We Fight Fraud.

Fraud is changing quickly. So are the tools, technologies, and strategies needed to stop it.

Rize Credit Union is looking for an experienced Financial Security Investigations Officer to take the lead on complex fraud and financial crime investigations while helping us strengthen how we detect, prevent, and respond to emerging threats.

This is not simply a case-management role. As a senior individual contributor on our Financial Security team, you’ll investigate high-risk and unusual activity, analyze fraud trends and control weaknesses, evaluate the effectiveness of our fraud detection systems, and recommend strategies that help protect our members, our assets, and our organization.

You’ll also serve as a subject-matter resource to colleagues across Rize, bringing together investigative expertise, data analysis, technology, and sound judgment to continuously improve our fraud prevention program.

What You’ll Do

Lead Complex Investigations

  • Independently manage complex, high-risk, and unusual fraud and financial crime investigations from initial review through resolution.
  • Analyze transactions, account activity, member profiles, system data, and other information to identify suspicious activity, emerging patterns, and broader risk exposure.
  • Conduct advanced interviews with members, suspects, witnesses, team members, and other parties.
  • Develop investigative findings and recommend appropriate case actions, including account restrictions, closures, reinstatements, recovery, restitution, and law enforcement referrals.
  • Perform root-cause analysis of fraud events and losses to identify control weaknesses and recommend solutions.

Strengthen Fraud Detection & Analytics

  • Analyze and optimize fraud surveillance and transaction-monitoring systems through rule tuning, threshold testing, alert optimization, and suppression analysis.
  • Evaluate fraud detection models, scoring logic, rules, and thresholds against emerging fraud trends and Rize’s risk profile.
  • Analyze alert volumes, detection rates, false positives, fraud losses, and other performance indicators.
  • Develop and maintain fraud analytics, Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), dashboards, loss-trend reporting, and other measures of program effectiveness.
  • Recommend new or enhanced fraud detection rules and strategies based on emerging schemes, scam typologies, member behavior, system performance, and industry intelligence.
  • Provide fraud analysis and reporting to support management, Executive, and Board-level reporting.

Help Build the Future of Fraud Prevention

  • Evaluate fraud risks associated with emerging products, payment technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital identity verification, account-opening technology, and other services.
  • Recommend improvements to fraud prevention, detection, investigation, response strategies, policies, procedures, controls, and technology.
  • Participate in implementation, testing, validation, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for fraud applications, monitoring platforms, digital banking controls, and system enhancements.
  • Help develop fraud detection strategies that leverage analytics, automation, and emerging technologies.
  • Partner across Rize on projects involving fraud risk, controls, systems, and process improvements.

Support Compliance & Case Resolution

  • Conduct investigative activities supporting applicable BSA/AML, OFAC, USA PATRIOT Act, and other financial crime requirements.
  • Prepare detailed Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and supporting documentation.
  • Maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready investigative records.
  • Support regulatory examinations, Internal Audit requests, risk assessments, and internal control reviews.
  • Coordinate complex recovery and resolution efforts with Collections, Legal, law enforcement, external recovery partners, and other stakeholders.
  • Prepare or coordinate investigative and legal documentation, including subpoenas, garnishments, court filings, restitution requests, and prosecution packages, as applicable.

Be a Trusted Resource

  • Serve as a subject-matter resource on complex fraud matters for team members, management, members, and law enforcement.
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to Financial Security Investigators and support personnel on complex cases, investigative approaches, fraud systems, and corrective actions.
  • Maintain relationships with law enforcement, fraud networks, and relevant industry organizations.
  • Help identify training needs and facilitate fraud awareness and prevention education for teams across Rize.
  • This is a lead individual-contributor position and does not have direct supervisory responsibility.

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for someone who combines strong investigative instincts with analytical and technical expertise. You should be comfortable digging deeply into complex cases while also stepping back to identify trends, control gaps, and opportunities to make the entire fraud program stronger.

Required qualifications include:

  • Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in fraud investigations, financial crimes, fraud operations, BSA/AML investigations, financial intelligence, or enterprise fraud risk management within a financial institution.
  • Demonstrated experience independently managing complex or high-risk fraud investigations and working across departments on fraud prevention efforts.
  • Experience analyzing fraud trends, control weaknesses, and fraud detection effectiveness and recommending risk-mitigation or process improvements.
  • In-depth knowledge of fraud schemes, including digital banking and payment fraud, identity theft, scams, cyber-enabled financial crimes, and emerging AI-related fraud.
  • Experience with fraud rule tuning, threshold testing, model validation, and fraud detection strategy.
  • Experience working with law enforcement, attorneys, and regulatory bodies on fraud matters.
  • Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) preparation and writing experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, business administration, finance, accounting, information systems, or a related field.
  • One industry-recognized certification such as CFE, CAMS, CAFP, CAFS, or equivalent, or the ability to obtain one within 12–18 months of hire.

Experience working with fraud and financial technology platforms such as Verafin, Jack Henry Symitar, LexisNexis, digital banking fraud systems, AWS, Microsoft BI, Excel, or similar tools is highly valuable. Experience with fraud rule configuration and transaction-monitoring systems is preferred.

Bilingual English/Spanish skills are a plus.

The Person Who Will Thrive Here

You’re naturally curious and analytical. You notice patterns others may miss, ask the next question, and know how to follow information wherever it leads.

You can make sound decisions when the facts are complicated, incomplete, or changing. You’re comfortable handling sensitive and confidential matters, difficult conversations, competing priorities, and time-sensitive situations with professionalism and discretion.

Just as importantly, you can translate a complex investigation or data set into a clear story: What happened? Why did it happen? What is the risk? And what should we do differently going forward?

Join Rize

At Rize Credit Union, our work goes beyond banking. We uplift communities through knowledge, access, and care, and protecting our members from fraud and financial crime is an important part of that commitment.

If you’re ready to bring your investigative expertise, analytical thinking, and knowledge of emerging fraud risks to a role where you can influence both individual cases and the broader fraud prevention strategy, we’d like to hear from you.

Compensation

This is a full-time, exempt position based at Rize Credit Union’s headquarters in Irwindale, California.

The anticipated annual salary range for this position is $77,000 – $100,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, education, certifications, and other job-related qualifications.

Rize Federal Credit Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.

We’d love for you to consider joining our team to make a meaningful impact and help others realize their full potential.

We offer:

  • Full- and part-time positions
  • Life insurance, long-term disability insurance
  • Generous retirement plan with employer matching
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