As a Fraud & AML Specialist, you’ll play a key role in safeguarding our merchant portfolio and payment flows. Your primary focus will be Merchant Fraud Monitoring and ownership of our internal monitoring tool, while also supporting AML alert oversight and identification of unusual client behaviour.
You’ll work hands-on with transaction data, monitoring rules, and early risk signals — helping prevent losses, protect our platform, and support sustainable merchant growth.
Monitor and manage merchant fraud risks across products, payment methods, and transaction flows.
Act as the key user and owner of the internal monitoring tool, including configuration, tuning, and optimisation of monitoring rules.
Detect, assess, and escalate early warning signals related to merchant fraud, including abnormal transaction patterns, behavioural changes, and limit breaches.
Support AML alert oversight, assisting with identification of unusual or deviating client behaviour and escalation where required.
Analyse fraud- and AML-related data, trends, and patterns across the merchant portfolio.
Prepare fraud monitoring insights and basic reporting, including KPIs, KRIs, and dashboards.
Work closely with Client Managers, Compliance, Risk, and other internal teams to support investigations and merchant communication.
Contribute to process improvements, including enhancement of monitoring logic, workflows, and internal tooling.
You have proven experience in fraud prevention within acquiring or PSP services (mandatory).
You have experience working with Visa and Mastercard, including scheme monitoring programs.
You have a strong understanding of merchant fraud risks, transaction patterns, and rule-based monitoring approaches.
You’ve worked hands-on with fraud or transaction monitoring tools and understand how to optimise them.
You have a basic understanding of AML concepts and are willing to develop deeper AML monitoring expertise.
Experience with dashboards, BI tools, or SQL-based reporting is a strong plus.
You’re analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working with large volumes of transaction data.
You communicate clearly and professionally in English.
You’ll be part of a team that takes risk seriously but practically. You’ll work with real payment flows, evolving fraud patterns, and live merchant behaviour — in an environment where your judgement, accuracy and improvements have a direct impact.
A competitive salary, based on your experience and expertise.
Flexible working hours and hybrid work options.
Private health insurance and paid time off.
Top-of-the-line Apple equipment to support your work.
End-to-end ownership of your cases and processes.
Direct impact on merchant experience and risk outcomes.
A collaborative culture where improvements are encouraged and growth is supported.
We’re building the financial backbone of the future — where payments are monitored intelligently, risks are detected early, and businesses scale safely. If you want ownership, real fintech complexity and room to grow across fraud and AML, xpate is the place for you
xpate is the payments provider built for fintechs and digital SMEs that makes it easier to pay, get paid and keep money flowing.
xpate combines card payments, FX and banking services into one unified account, to give modern businesses simple and transformative access to critical financial tools. By facilitating this vital link, we enable digital businesses to thrive, scale, and drive innovation with confidence.
Through xpate technology, expertise and partnerships, customers get faster access to liquidity, accelerated business growth and reduced financial risk.
Our global team of industry experts empower businesses every day to simplify their payments, control their cash flow and accelerate their growth.
