Fraud Investigator
Chicago, IL, US
- IT
- Full-time
- fraud investigation
- forensic accounting
- risk management
The Fraud Investigator at Aramco conducts sensitive investigations into fraud, conflicts of interest, waste, and abuse within the company, utilizing data mining and Enterprise Risk Management tools. The role involves preparing reports, delivering fraud awareness trainings, and coordinating with multiple departments to mitigate fraud risk. Candidates are expected to have extensive experience in forensic accounting, auditing, law enforcement, or compliance along with relevant professional certifications.
Aramco energizes the world economy.
Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.
With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.
Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.
We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.
Overview
We are seeking a Fraud Investigator to join the Internal Special Audits Division.
The Internal Special Audits Division is responsible for conducting highly sensitive investigations into issues involving fraud, conflicts of interest, waste, and abuse to provide the management and the Board of Directors with reports, analyses, recommendations, and information concerning the activities reviewed. The Special Audits Division also helps addressing fraud risk management across the Company with programs of awareness, policy and risk consulting, and proactive risk mitigation measures.
Your primary role is to conduct confidential investigations involving misconduct by employees and contractors, while seeking to identify and develop relevant facts.
Key Responsibilities
As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:
- Lead or support time-sensitive investigations.
- Become familiar with and utilize data mining and analytical techniques to both identify potential fraud and gather corroborating evidence to support investigations.
- Become familiar with and utilize Enterprise Risk Management tools (i.e., SAP) to obtain data in support of investigations.
- Provide fraud awareness presentations throughout the Company to varying job specialties and levels of management.
- Liaise and coordinate with other fraud-related stakeholder departments including Corporate Security, Law, Personnel and Labor Relations.
- Draft timely investigative reports and verbally communicate results.
- Provide on-the-job training and mentoring to less experienced staff.
- Work independently yet effectively within a team of experienced professionals
Minimum Requirements
- As a successful candidate, you will hold a bachelor degree in accounting, finance, human resources, law, criminology, compliance, computer. an advanced degree is a plus.
- You will have a minimum of 10 years of experience in forensic accounting, fraud investigation, auditing, law enforcement, compliance, or a related field where you utilized and developed expert interviewing and investigative techniques.
- You will have at least one professional certification, such as the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Professional Certified Investigator (PCI), Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
- You must demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills in English with solid presentation and interpersonal skills.
- You should be able to quickly evaluating allegations of fraud, abuse and conflicts of interest and determine the violation of the law, regulations, or Company policy.
- You should have effective and modern investigative techniques to quickly unravel, explain, and report complicated fraud and conflicts of interest schemes.
- You should be able analyze facts and evidence and form evidence-based conclusions concerning violations of the law, regulations, or Company policy.
Work Location and Work Schedule
Work location: Within Saudi Arabia – To be specified in Job offer
Work schedule: Full Time - To be specified in Job offer
Job Posting Duration
Job posting start date: 12/15/2025
Job posting end date: 12/31/2026
Working environment
Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.
At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.
We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.
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