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Fraud Investigator

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, USFull-time$71k–$114k2026-11-05 → 2026-11-10
No visa sponsorship

Core

Monitor transactional and account activity, evaluate fraud alerts, identify emerging fraud patterns, and recommend actions to reduce losses for consumer debit and prepaid card programs.

Role type

Senior IC fraud investigator (payments)

Builds

Fraud prevention and detection systems for debit and prepaid card portfolios

Domain

Fintech, payments, financial crime

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

fraud monitoring, transactional activity analysis, root-cause analysis, risk assessment, pattern recognition, documentation, stakeholder collaboration

Preferred skills

debit/prepaid card issuer experience, fraud-rule management, account takeover analysis, Visa/Mastercard rules knowledge, SQL/Power BI/Snowflake/Splunk/Python, Regulation E/BSA/AML knowledge

Technologies

Microsoft Excel, fraud-monitoring platforms, dashboards, reporting tools, SQL, Power BI, Snowflake, Splunk, Python

Responsibilities

Monitor fraud alerts and exception reports; Review alerts to determine legitimacy or escalation; Analyze card-present, card-not-present, ATM, digital-wallet, and account-takeover activity; Identify emerging fraud trends and attack signatures; Perform root-cause analysis of fraud events; Evaluate fraud strategies and rules for effectiveness