Fraud Investigator

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Global Loss & Integrity Investigator to identify and address misconduct, data leakage, fraud and financial abuse within the company. You will develop procedures and data-led monitoring to detect financial anomalies and support enterprise risk management.

You'll interview employees, build cases, prepare senior management reports, and collaborate with HR, Ethics, Legal, and DPO to implement remediation and strengthen internal controls across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Crime Investigation, Finance, Business Management, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience conducting financial crime investigations, including analyzing large datasets to identify trends and typologies.
• Proven experience building internal investigation case-management systems, including allegation triage, root-cause analysis, and remediation processes.
• Experience performing internal fraud risk assessments and implementing remediation and control measures.
• Strong background investigating and advising on internal misconduct matters across an organization.

Responsibilities

• Conduct investigations of policy violations, data leakage, fraud and financial abuse and develop data-led monitoring systems.
• Identify, obtain, and analyze financial and operational data relevant to investigations.
• Interview employees, obtain evidence, draw conclusions, and recommend controls.
• Build cases with witness statements and evidence for potential losses.
• Prepare reports and communicate findings to senior management and HR, Ethics and Legal.
• Prepare work papers to document investigations with supporting evidence.
• Collaborate with senior management, Employment Relations, Ethics, Legal, and DPO, and external counsel.
• Assess internal fraud risk by monitoring platforms and undertakings deep-dive projects.
• Identify threats to the company and take timely actions.

Skills

Financial crime

Data analysis

Interviewing

Case management

Fraud risk assessment

Remediation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice / related discipline

Job description

Responsibilities

About the Team

GLI is a team dedicated to identifying and addressing potential misconduct, legal violations, and ethical breaches. By detecting issues early, the GLI program helps minimize reputational damage, mitigate legal risks, and ensure compliance. Our efforts help protect the Company's integrity and build trust, by uncovering and managing problems before they elevate.

Responsibilities

• Conduct investigations of policy violation, data leakage, fraud and financial abuse occurring within the company and develop internal procedures and data-led fraud monitoring and identification systems that enable easy identification of financial inadequacies.
• Identify, obtain, and analyze financial, operational, and other data relevant to the investigation of allegations of misconduct and the assessment of enterprise risks.
• Interview employees associated with an investigation, obtain and analyze evidence, draw relevant conclusions, and recommend control enhancements.
• Build cases to substantiate allegations of fraudulent activity by requesting and compiling witness statements and evidence from employees that were involved in transactions that resulted in a potential loss.
• Prepare reports and communicate findings to senior management, HR, Ethics and Legal departments, and recommend corrective action relating to internal control failures.
• Prepare work papers to adequately document investigations with supporting evidence for all forensic findings.
• Collaborate with various levels of the organization internally, including senior management, Employment Relations, Ethics, Legal Counsel, and DPO as well as with various external organization legal counsel, and law enforcement in fraud and other financial mismanagement cases.
• Assess internal fraud risk by conducting platform monitoring and undertaking deep-dive projects.
• Identify any possible threats to company and take appropriate actions to avoid them promptly.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Crime Investigation, Finance, Business Management, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience conducting financial crime investigations, including analyzing large datasets to identify trends and typologies related to financial fraud, money laundering, bribery, and corruption within a large organization.
• Proven experience building and developing internal investigation case-management systems, including allegation triage, root-cause analysis, and remediation processes.
• Experience performing internal fraud risk assessments and implementing effective remediation and control measures within a business environment.
• Strong background investigating and advising on internal misconduct matters across an organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Managed end-to-end workplace investigations in a fast-paced social media environment, ensuring compliance with internal policies and legal requirements.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $121600 - $220400 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.