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  • Lead project-scale investigations of complex fraud events including coordinated rings and systemic patterns, from initial signal through root-cause analysis and leadership-ready readouts.
  • Serve as the senior investigative authority, setting the bar for case quality and acting as the default escalation point for the team's hardest cases.
  • Drive fraud rule and process changes by translating investigative findings into measurable controls, and represent Risk Ops findings to cross-functional leadership.

Fraud Investigation SQL Data Analysis Regulatory Compliance

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$73,000–$78,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Conduct investigations of high-risk or potential fraud activity, including platform abuse and suspicious financial movement patterns.
  • Use an investigative, data-driven approach to analyze cases and make fair, compliant, and risk-mitigated determinations.
  • Leverage tools such as Excel, Google Sheets, Snowflake, SQL, and Tableau to uncover fraud patterns and communicate findings to stakeholders.

Clair is a digital banking platform that gives America's workers instant access to their earned wages by embedding financial products into payroll and workforce management apps. The company is a fintech startup with a focus on financial freedom for hourly workers.

  • Own the fraud P&L and set the fraud strategy across all products.
  • Lead, develop, and build a strong second line of leadership in the Risk & Fraud team.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Legal to embed fraud risk from the start.

Eneba builds an open, safe, and sustainable marketplace for gamers, supporting close to 20 million active users. The company has a fast-growing, high-volume digital business with a culture focused on trust, safety, and scalability.

$109,000–$192,000/yr
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  • Investigate suspicious activity and enforce company policies to protect the expert contributor ecosystem.
  • Identify emerging fraud trends and refine operational runbooks for detection and mitigation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors to maintain workforce integrity and compliance.

Snorkel AI helps enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale, starting as a Stanford AI Lab research project in 2015. The company works with some of the world's largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, and more to build custom AI with their data.

$180,000–$250,000/yr
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  • Drive fraud strategy and influence decision-making across the organization.
  • Translate fraud insights into strategic recommendations and product improvements.
  • Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders and represent SentiLink through thought leadership.

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. Backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, they have a proven track record and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50.

US 4w PTO

  • Oversee internal and external staff conducting fraud and complaint investigations, including training, monitoring, and management.
  • Gather and analyze evidence using investigative techniques to uncover fraudulent schemes and identify responsible parties.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to develop risk-based prevention strategies and controls to safeguard company assets.

Forbright is a nationwide full-service bank and commercial lender focused on building a brighter future for clients and communities. We are a dynamic, high-energy, and fast-paced organization with a culture of collaboration, inclusion, flexibility, and giving back.

USA

  • Investigate and analyze suspected fraud cases affecting Veriff’s customers.
  • Develop new countermeasures and strategies to address emerging fraud patterns while minimizing false positives.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve fraud detection processes and ensure product readiness.

Veriff is a global identity verification platform that helps businesses verify and safeguard users online. The company is backed by investors including Accel, Alkeon, IVP, Tiger Capital, and Y Combinator, has offices in the US, UK, Spain, and Estonia, and is dedicated to being a benchmark for trust online.

Global

  • Own complex Trust & Safety escalations from internal teams and external customers, making documented, data-backed final decisions.
  • Use SQL and BI tools to independently investigate fraud patterns, build detection rules, and monitor platform integrity.
  • Identify gaps in review integrity policies and propose evidence-based enforcement updates in partnership with the Director of Trust & Safety.

G2 is the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace, helping businesses make better decisions through trusted user insights. The company has 200M+ annual visitors, 6M verified reviews, and a global community of over 1,000 employees grounded in PEAK values—Performance, Entrepreneurship, Authenticity, and Kindness.

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TransUnion is a global information and insights company that provides actionable views of consumers to foster trust and economic opportunity. With over 12,000 associates in more than 30 countries, they focus on innovative solutions in credit, marketing, fraud, and analytics.

UK

  • Gather evidence from flagged transactions and customer claims to investigate suspicious activity.
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Monzo is a digital bank offering current accounts, savings, and loans. With over 7 million customers, the company is known for its innovative and customer-centric culture.

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  • Analyze and classify escalated fraud cases from Compliance, Credit Operations, and Collections teams.
  • Identify, document, and analyze fraud patterns and modus operandi used by fraudsters.
  • Propose new signals, rules, and controls for fraud prevention, monitor performance, and validate effectiveness.

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Risk Analyst

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  • Monitor merchant processing activity to identify suspicious transactions and potential fraud.
  • Investigate alerts and review reports to mitigate company losses and ensure compliance.
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$91,000–$151,600/yr
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  • Lead and enhance the fraud governance framework, overseeing fraud prevention and detection across all transaction channels.
  • Analyze large datasets to identify fraud patterns and develop strategies to mitigate losses, reporting findings to executive leadership.
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Fulton Bank is a financial institution committed to making a positive impact in local communities. They foster a culture of continuous learning, work-life integration, and inclusion, with a digitally enabled work environment.

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  • Lead a team of 10-12 Fraud Investigators focusing on prevention, unauthorized and authorized fraud, and bank communications.
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Asia Hong Kong Latin America

  • Conduct IP geolocation investigations using internal and external data sources, assessing circumvention risks and documenting findings per audit and compliance standards.
  • Escalate complex or high-risk cases with clear rationale and supporting analysis, maintaining high standards of quality and accuracy.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to support issue resolution, control enhancements, and governance initiatives.

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UK

  • Conduct complex financial crime investigations, including Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) writing.
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  • Coach team members on financial crime typologies and collaborate with operations analysts to improve processes.

Monzo is a digital bank on a mission to make money work for everyone, offering personal and business banking, credit cards, and investment products. With a diverse culture and a rapidly growing team, Monzo focuses on solving customer problems and changing lives.

$70,000–$90,000/yr
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  • Conduct training on fraud detection and maintain knowledge of relevant laws and regulations.

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  • Provide investigative and anti-fraud advisory services across specialty and standard commercial lines insurance products
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