Fraud Specialist

The external fraud landscape is constantly shifting, with emerging AI-driven technologies introducing both new threats and promising opportunities. Fraudsters are becoming increasingly sophisticated, using advanced techniques to exploit vulnerabilities within the financial system. To stay ahead of these evolving fraud trends, organizations must embrace strong collaboration and innovative strategies.

As a Fraud Specialist, you’ll play a key role in helping our clients navigate this complex environment. You’ll design and implement secure, efficient, and future-ready solutions that address both operational challenges and fraud risks. Your work will focus on detecting, preventing, and blocking fraudulent payments through advanced data-driven techniques, cutting-edge fraud detection tools, and close partnerships with banking stakeholders.

We are Projective Group, a leading financial services consulting firm where innovation and technology meet business. Our focus on the financial sector enables us to develop comprehensive solutions within the Risk & Compliance, Data, Payments, and Transformation practices.  Within our Risk & Compliance practice we help our clients understand how and where regulations have an impact within their organization and help with remediations of gaps within existing regulatory guidelines.

Have you already seen the first edition of the Journal of Financial Services (JoFS), published by the Projective Group Institute? You can easily download it for free here: institute.projectivegroup.com, to read more about :Digital and central bank digital currencies; AI in payments; Regulatory change and cross-border challenges.

What will you do?

As a Fraud Specialist, you will play a key role in helping our clients protect their customers and financial systems from external fraud by driving initiatives focused on fraud detection and prevention.

Your key responsibilities:

• Monitor and analyse fraud trends to shape strategic roadmaps and proactively detect emerging threats.

• Advise clients on enhancing fraud detection strategies, processes, and technologies across the financial services industry.

• Define and prioritize fraud detection tool development, ensuring alignment with business goals and risk appetite.

• Perform AS-IS and TO-BE analysis, including gap assessments to evaluate the impact of changes on fraud risk.

• Develop and maintain fraud detection rules and models, improving accuracy while minimizing false positives.

• Oversee risk-related activities and promote effective governance across processes and controls.

Your Skills & Qualifications

• A degree in law, criminology, business or a related field.

• Fluency in business English, with native fluency in Dutch (French is a plus).

• 5 years of experience in fraud risk management in the financial services or payments industries.

• Experience working in consulting or in a project-based role.

• Strong understanding of fraud typologies and financial crime frameworks (including KYC, AML, transaction monitoring, anomaly detection, regulatory requirements, and multi-jurisdictional compliance).

• Strong familiarity with data protection regulations.

• A plus if you have a professional certification in fraud examination (i.e., CFE) or financial crime (i.e., CAMS).

What can you expect from us?

At Projective Group, we believe in rewarding ambition and supporting growth, both professionally and personally. From a competitive benefits package to a vibrant company culture, we make sure you have everything you need to thrive.

• A competitive salary topped with a daily net allowance, meal - and eco vouchers.

• A flexible FIP budget for bike leasing, multimedia, or mobility expenses.

• A company car with charging setup. Prefer something else? Switch it up with a mobility budget, your call.

• €5.000 annual training budget to boost your growth. You choose how to invest it.

• A yearly company bonus, with additional referral and sales incentives.

• A hybrid work setup with flexible hours and part-time remote options.

• Regular fun events (from game nights to padel tournaments and everything in between) and a yearly group offsite abroad.

• An international setting with plenty of growth opportunities, serving top clients in the financial sector.

• An entrepreneurial scale up spirit with a pragmatic can-do mentality, all within a collaborative and solid corporate framework

For more information, visit projectivegroup.com.

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