Financial Crime & AML Compliance Expert

Role Title: Financial Crime & AML Compliance Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

micro1 is engaging Financial Crime & AML Compliance Experts to contribute to a customer's project focused on the design and optimization of advanced financial-crime detection frameworks. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters.
Scope of Work

- Design and document a comprehensive library of fraud, scam, money laundering, and abuse scenarios for financial platforms.

- Identify and define social-engineering red flags and typologies relevant to modern financial crime, including phishing, synthetic identity fraud, and marketplace abuse.

- Create escalation grading scales and frameworks to assess severity and risk of various financial crime events.

- Develop benchmark criteria and detection frameworks to evaluate AI model capability to recognize realistic fraud patterns and suspicious activity.

- Review and enhance written guidance, workflows, and best practices for financial crime and AML compliance operations.

- Provide detailed feedback on project deliverables, ensuring domain accuracy and practical relevance.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate your insights into actionable detection and prevention strategies.

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of recent, hands-on experience in fraud investigations, AML compliance, payments risk management, or related financial crime domains.

- Expertise in detecting and analyzing scams, phishing, money laundering, synthetic identity fraud, and marketplace abuse in fintech, banking, crypto, or digital payment environments.

- High credibility in financial crime prevention, supported by a track record of operational excellence and thought leadership.

- Advanced degree, professional certification (such as CAMS, CFE, CFCS), or equivalent operational credentials in financial crime, AML/CTF, or compliance.

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to articulate complex scenarios and frameworks clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Experience building training materials, scenario libraries, or detection rulebooks is a strong plus.

- Curiosity and analytical rigor to assess evolving financial crime typologies and adapt controls accordingly.

Originally posted on Himalayas