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.

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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.

Three practices

Choose your door.

For financial institutions

Fraud & Risk Advisory

Disbursement fraud diagnostics, full program builds, and fractional fraud leadership for annuity carriers, retirement recordkeepers, TPAs, and credit unions.

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EX–01
    93% reduction in third-party account takeover fraud
    Designed and ran the fraud prevention program protecting call center and annuity administration operations at Symetra Life Insurance, a top-tier annuity carrier.
EX–02
    Drove FraudShare's industry adoption
    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.
EX–03
    COSO-aligned risk program, built from scratch
    Stood up Symetra's operational risk management program end to end and cut assessment cycle time by 50% through Lean process redesign.
EX–04
    VP, Data Risk Management
    Led data risk management at MUFG Union Bank, including independent review and challenge of seven enterprise GRC system conversions through the US Bank acquisition.
EX–05
    Certified Fraud Examiner
    15+ years across insurance and banking: operational risk, fraud prevention, AML coordination, and data governance. RSA Archer, OpenPages, and ServiceNow practitioner.

Advisory engagements

Three ways to engage.

Fixed scope · Fixed fee · Stated before work begins

The entry point

Disbursement Fraud Diagnostic

4–6 weeks · Fixed fee

A structured examination of your account takeover and disbursement fraud exposure, benchmarked against industry best practice, with a prioritized remediation roadmap.

Intake-to-payout control walkthrough
Callback and bank-change procedure review
Detection rule assessment

The core engagement

Fraud Program Build

4–6 months

A complete fraud defense capability, designed, implemented, and handed over: the same playbook that produced a 93% fraud reduction, adapted to your operation.

COSO-aligned fraud risk assessment
Control design and vendor implementation
Incident runbook, training, board reporting

The retainer

Fractional Fraud Officer

Annual agreement

Senior fraud leadership on your team without the full-time hire: continuous oversight, current threat intelligence, and a named expert when an incident hits.

Quarterly control testing and threat briefings
On-call incident support
Regulator and auditor response support

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