Financial Crime & AML Compliance Expert

Role overview

This contract opportunity is for a remote Financial Crime & AML Compliance Expert working with financial platform risk and abuse prevention. The role centers on building clear, practical frameworks that help teams identify, assess, and respond to fraud, scam, laundering, and other financial crime patterns.

The assignment requires a commitment of 10 to 40 hours per week and offers compensation of $50 to $90 per hour.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain a detailed reference library covering fraud, scam, money laundering, and misuse scenarios seen on financial platforms.
• Pinpoint social-engineering warning signs and map out typologies that reflect current financial crime tactics.
• Set up escalation scales and severity frameworks to judge the risk level of different financial crime incidents.
• Define benchmark standards and evaluation methods to test whether AI models can detect fraud patterns effectively.
• Improve written playbooks, operating workflows, and best-practice guidance for AML and financial crime operations.
• Work with cross-functional partners to turn analysis into concrete detection and prevention actions.

What we're looking for

• Proven background in fraud investigations, AML compliance, payment risk, or a closely related area.
• Hands-on expertise in spotting and analyzing scams, phishing, money laundering, synthetic identity fraud, and marketplace abuse.
• Strong professional credibility in financial crime prevention, backed by consistent operational results and recognized subject-matter leadership.
• An advanced degree, a relevant certification such as CAMS, CFE, or CFCS, or equivalent hands-on credentials in financial crime work.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, with the ability to explain complex scenarios and frameworks in a clear way.

Application process

The process involves an initial easy application step, followed by email communication for next steps and then a resume review and interview stage.