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Fraud Detection Expert - Financial Crimes

$60 - $70 per hour

Mercor

Job Description

Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Fraud Detection Experts
Type: Contract
Compensation: $60–$70/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Construct enterprise fraud scenarios for large-scale transaction monitoring, multi-stakeholder investigation workflows, and complex regulatory reporting cycles at Fortune 500 institutions.
  • Build tasks across F500 payment fraud, account takeover, identity theft, AML , synthetic identity fraud, and merchant/card network fraud.
  • Develop fraud operations scenarios using tools like SAS Fraud Management , Actimize , Feedzai , and enterprise case management/transaction monitoring platforms.
  • Apply enterprise fraud detection methodologies, including rules-based and ML-driven detection models , network/link analysis, KYC/AML frameworks, and BSA compliance.
  • Author rubrics that distinguish authentic enterprise fraud investigation judgment from generic textbook or certification-exam-level recall.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 5+ years in fraud detection, financial crimes investigation, or AML compliance at a Fortune 500 bank, payments company, or financial institution.
  • Direct ownership of F500-scale fraud detection programs, investigation caseloads, or transaction monitoring systems.
  • Fluency in enterprise fraud detection tooling and methodologies, with an understanding of F500 regulatory reporting, law enforcement coordination, and case escalation.

Preferred

  • Prior rubric, fraud-investigation training curriculum, or case documentation authorship.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

  • Upload resume
  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

Resources & Support

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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