Fraud & Financial Crime Analytics Specialist

Cuscal Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Cuscal Limited is seeking a Financial Crime Analyst to join its team in Australia. You will analyse data to identify fraud risks across payments and digital channels, and develop detection rules to strengthen controls. This role requires strong analytical skills and collaboration across stakeholders.

You will leverage Power BI, SQL and Databricks to derive insights, monitor performance, and support model validation and improvements. Prior experience in financial crime is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational fraud or financial crime management.
• Strong analytical capability with experience working across large and complex data sets.
• Experience using fraud detection systems including writing or optimising fraud rules.
• Advanced Power BI and Excel skills.
• Intermediate Databricks and SQL experience.
• Strong critical thinking, investigation and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate insights clearly to different stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Analyze transactional, behavioural and intelligence data to identify fraud and emerging financial crime risks.
• Develop and optimise fraud detection rules across cards, digital wallets, real-time payments, PayTo, BPAY and Direct Entry.
• Conduct network analysis, merchant reviews and complex investigations.
• Use Power BI, Databricks, SQL and Excel to identify trends and provide actionable insights.
• Review fraud controls and recommend improvements to strengthen detection capabilities.
• Monitor fraud detection performance including detection rates and false positive ratios.
• Support the implementation and validation of new data sets, AI models and machine learning models.
• Provide insights on current fraud typologies and trends to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Escalate significant incidents, risks and emerging threats to management.
• Contribute to continuous improvement across fraud monitoring processes and operational outcomes

Skills

Power BI

Excel

SQL

Databricks

Data analysis

Fraud detection

Education

Tertiary studies in fraud, financial crime or criminology

Job description

Cuscal Limited is seeking a Financial Crime Analyst to join its team in Australia. You will analyse data to identify fraud risks across payments and digital channels, and develop detection rules to strengthen controls. This role requires strong analytical skills and collaboration across stakeholders.

You will leverage Power BI, SQL and Databricks to derive insights, monitor performance, and support model validation and improvements. Prior experience in financial crime is preferred.