Fraud Detection Expert – Financial Crimes

Job overview

The Fraud Detection Expert – Financial Crimes role is remote, with compensation of $60–$70 per hour. Mercor connects creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The expert develops realistic enterprise fraud scenarios and evaluation rubrics grounded in financial-crime investigation experience. The work covers fraud detection, transaction monitoring, investigation workflows, and regulatory reporting scenarios for large financial institutions.

What you'll do

• Construct enterprise fraud scenarios for transaction monitoring, investigation workflows, and regulatory reporting
• develop tasks covering payment fraud, account takeover, identity theft, anti-money laundering, synthetic identity fraud, and merchant or card network fraud
• create scenarios using enterprise fraud tools
• apply rules-based and machine-learning detection, network analysis, KYC/AML frameworks, and BSA compliance
• author rubrics that assess practical investigation judgment.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

fraud detection

financial crimes

remote

transaction monitoring

payment fraud

account takeover

identity theft

aml

kyc

bsa compliance

mercor

$60–$70/hour

sas fraud management

actimize

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting describes a remote contract opportunity and requires five or more years of relevant experience at a Fortune 500 bank, payments company, or financial institution.

About the employer

Mercor is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.