Financial Crime Investigator, Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine.

📋 Description

• Conduct thorough investigations of online merchants, marketplace sellers, and their digital footprints, encompassing websites, domains, DNS/WHOIS, IPs, registrars, hosting, business records, and social media.

• Analyze suspicious products and services, including trending pharmaceuticals, illegal drugs, fraudulent entities, and online scam networks.

• Detect transaction laundering, concealed payment activities, policy evasion, and merchant obfuscation techniques.

• Generate evidence-based Risk Insight Reports, EVP-style merchant evaluations, and scam assessments.

• Convert investigative results into actionable risk recommendations for clients.

• Evaluate merchants for adherence to card-brand regulations, MCC appropriateness, regional laws, and platform policies.

• Utilize proprietary tools in conjunction with OSINT and HUMINT methodologies.

• Keep track of emerging fraud trends, typologies, and regulatory or regional shifts across the U.S., EU, UK, LATAM, and APAC.

• Contribute to internal knowledge repositories, playbooks, and fraud-trend bulletins.

• Engage in team investigative initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient in English; knowledge of additional languages is a plus.

• Over 2 years of experience in fraud analysis, OSINT, AML, merchant monitoring, risk operations, intelligence, or similar analytical fields, or demonstrated academic/independent investigative experience.

• Experience in examining online merchants and e-commerce sellers, particularly in high-risk or regulated sectors.

• Strong capability in online attribution methods, including WHOIS/DNS, IP analysis, hosting details, domain metadata, reverse image search, and website fingerprinting.

• Data analysis proficiency, including basic SQL, Excel, and pivot tables.

• Ability to recognize red flags, obfuscation patterns, and connections among large sets of domains or merchant entities.

• Exceptional written communication skills with the ability to produce clear, defensible, client-ready reports.

• Strong documentation practices and meticulous attention to detail.

• Driven by curiosity and resourcefulness.

• High degree of independence; capable of managing multiple cases and deadlines.

• Comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous investigative settings.

• Team-oriented with excellent collaboration skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work.

• Full-time employment.