Financial Crime & AML Compliance Expert
Micro1 • Remote
Education
Any
Type
hourly
Pay Rate (by country)
$50–$90/hr
Actively Hiring
1 openings
✅ Applying through this link supports our platform at no cost to you.
This position is hosted on an external talent platform. Please only apply for this position if it fits your skills and interests.
Micro1: our referral track record
We've referred 735 candidates to Micro1 roles. 1% (8) were placed.
About this Role
From the Micro1 listing
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.
Requirements
- AML
- Fraud
- Marketplace Abuse
- Phishing
- Synthetic Identity
- Money Laundering
- Scams
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
Why This Role
Monetize your niche expertise without the billable hours. At $70/hr, this role offers elite compensation for pure intellectual work, no client management or administrative bloat.
Skills & Categories
Explore other opportunities in related specializations:
Related Jobs
Browse All Jobs from Micro1
Discover more opportunities on Micro1 that match your skills and interests.
View All Micro1 Jobs →Verified Reviews
Community Reviews
Share your experience with Micro1
Help other candidates make better decisions by leaving a review.
Sign in to leave a reviewLeave your review
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I apply to Micro1 from outside the US or UK?
Yes. Micro1 accepts applicants from most countries worldwide, unlike DataAnnotation or Outlier, both of which cap access to a handful of English-speaking countries. Most roles still require strong written and spoken English.
Does Micro1 monitor your computer while you work?
On many projects, yes, through time-tracking tools that take periodic screenshots to verify active hours. Check the specific project's requirements before accepting if desktop monitoring is a dealbreaker.
What does the Micro1 application process look like?
Expect a screening interview with Zara, Micro1's AI recruiter. Prepare for it like a real video call: good lighting, clear audio, verbal answers to technical questions. A human manager reviews the recording afterward, and some roles add a short skills assessment on top.
Is AI training work the same as traditional consulting?
No. Instead of client deliverables, you're given complex scenarios to evaluate: grading the AI's logic, correcting its hallucinations, and supplying expert-level reasoning it doesn't have on its own. The job is closer to teaching than consulting.
Why do these AI training roles pay so much?
Because general knowledge isn't what's being tested. The model already knows the basics; what it needs is expertise on edge cases, the rare, difficult, highly technical judgment calls only a senior professional in the field would make correctly.
What does the day-to-day workload look like for elite-expert AI training roles?
Slow and deep, not fast and repetitive. A single task can take 45-60 minutes of researching citations or verifying complex calculations. Quality is what's being measured here, not throughput.
What does Legal work look like for a Financial Crime & AML Compliance Expert?
Tasks here are scoped to Legal, not generic labeling. As a Financial Crime & AML Compliance Expert, expect to draw on real domain judgment (evaluating outputs, correcting errors, or providing expert reasoning specific to Legal) rather than following a one-size-fits-all rubric. If you don't have hands-on Legal background, this is likely not the right listing to start with.
What does the 'openings' count on this listing mean?
It's Micro1's live count of how many candidates it's still trying to place for this specific role, 1 right now, not a countdown on your individual application. A higher number signals more active demand; it doesn't lower the bar for acceptance.
What happens when I click Apply on this listing?
You'll be taken to Micro1's external site to complete your application there. This listing links through a referral, but the process is identical to applying directly; the link just routes you correctly. Create an account on their site and follow their onboarding steps.