- Experience
- Any
- Salary
- USD 50 – USD 90 / hour
- Openings
- 1
- Posted
- 4 days ago
- Work mode
- Work from home
- Education
- Advanced degree
- Eligibility
- Experienced professionals in fraud, AML, payments risk, or similar financial crime functions who meet the certification, degree, or equivalent-credential expectations and can work remotely on a contract basis.
- Resume
- Required to apply
Job description
Role overview
This is a remote contract opportunity for a Financial Crime & AML Compliance Expert focused on helping strengthen fraud, scam, money laundering, and abuse detection for financial products and platforms. The engagement is designed for professionals who can bring practical experience in financial crime investigations and compliance operations.
Compensation and commitment
Pay is set at $50 to $90 per hour. The expected workload is flexible, ranging from 10 to 40 hours each week.
What you will do
- Build and maintain a structured library of fraud, scam, money-laundering, and abuse scenarios relevant to financial platforms.
- Define key warning signs and typologies associated with social-engineering and modern financial crime activity.
- Develop severity tiers and escalation frameworks to help assess the risk level of different financial crime incidents.
- Create benchmark standards and detection criteria for evaluating how well AI models identify fraud patterns.
- Improve written playbooks, workflows, and operational guidance used in financial crime and AML compliance work.
- Work with cross-functional partners to turn analysis and insights into practical detection and prevention actions.
What they are looking for
- Substantial hands-on background in fraud investigations, AML compliance, payments risk, or a closely related field.
- Deep familiarity with scams, phishing, money laundering, synthetic identity fraud, and marketplace abuse detection.
- Strong professional standing in financial crime prevention, backed by proven operational performance and subject-matter leadership.
- An advanced degree, or a certification such as CAMS, CFE, or CFCS, or equivalent practical credentials in financial crime.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills with the ability to explain complex cases and frameworks in a clear way.
Application process
The hiring flow includes an application review, followed by an email with next steps and then a resume evaluation and interview stage.