Risk & Fraud Advisory · Seattle, Washington
Fraud capability for financial firms that can't hire it full-time.
Enderassey is the advisory practice of Wondwossen Mezlekia, CFE: one of ten LIMRA/LOMA Financial Crimes Council members who drove FraudShare's adoption across the life and retirement industry, and the program leader behind a 93% reduction in third-party account takeover fraud at a top annuity carrier.
en·de·ra·sé (Amharic): “as myself.” The person you trust to act on your behalf, with full authority and full accountability. Every engagement at Enderassey is held to that standard of care.
The record
Examined, not asserted.
A fraud examiner's claims should read like findings.
Designed and ran the fraud prevention program protecting call center and annuity administration operations at a top-tier annuity carrier.
One of ten members of the LIMRA/LOMA Financial Crimes Council: selling the platform to member companies, winning over legal and compliance teams, testing, contributing data, and operationalizing it across the industry.
Stood up the carrier's operational risk management program end to end and cut assessment cycle time by 50% through Lean process redesign.
Data risk management at MUFG Union Bank through the US Bank acquisition, performing independent review and challenge across seven enterprise GRC system conversions.
17 years across insurance and banking: operational risk, fraud prevention, AML coordination, and data governance. RSA Archer, OpenPages, and ServiceNow practitioner.
The practice
Two doors. One discipline.
Fraud and operational risk are the same problem examined from two ends: what the control environment was supposed to prevent, and what it actually did.
Practice 01
Fraud Advisory
Disbursement fraud diagnostics, fraud program builds, and fractional fraud leadership for annuity platforms, recordkeepers, TPAs, and credit unions.
Enter →Practice 02
Risk & Data Advisory
Operational risk program builds, RCSA design, risk registers and governance reporting, data risk management, and GRC platform conversion support.
Enter →The principal
One examiner. Full accountability.
Wondwossen Mezlekia
Founder & Principal Consultant · CFE
Wondwossen spent 17 years inside the operations he now defends: sixteen at Symetra Life Insurance, where he ran the life claims unit, owned SOX-compliant control processes, and built the company's operational risk and fraud prevention programs, and a year as VP of Data Risk Management at MUFG Union Bank through one of the largest bank acquisitions in recent US history.
As one of ten members of the LIMRA/LOMA Financial Crimes Council, he helped advance FraudShare, the industry's fraud intelligence platform, from a promising idea to the standard adopted across life and retirement services: selling it to member companies, testing it, contributing data and insights, and operationalizing it.
When you engage Enderassey, this is who does the work. No leverage model, no junior staff learning on your engagement.
The math
A single successful account takeover routinely costs more than the program that stops it.
The first conversation is free, confidential, and useful whether or not we work together. Bring your hardest fraud question.