Senior Data Scientist, Fraud & Financial Crime

Senior Data Scientist , Fraud & Financial Crime

Financial Services Institution

The Opportunity
A leading financial institution is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, working on complex, high-impact fraud and financial-crime data science initiatives . You'll take ambiguous problems through to real operational adoption.

Your remit will span transaction monitoring, suspicious matter investigations, scams, AML/CTF, entity resolution, typology discovery and network analysis , combining statistical rigor with anomaly detection, NLP, Generative AI and graph analytics.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead integrated use cases across transaction, customer, account and network data, translating financial-crime typologies into testable hypotheses, features, graph patterns and alerts
• Select fit-for-purpose methods from rules through classical ML to deep learning and graph techniques and establishing credible baselines
• Own evaluation for rare, adaptive and weakly-labelled events, addressing temporal leakage, selection bias and class imbalance through rigorous back-testing and sensitivity analysis
• Partner directly with financial-crime leadership, investigators, engineers and assurance teams

What You'll Bring

• Advanced practical expertise in statistics, ML and rare-event evaluation, backed by strong Python and SQL
• Advanced depth in at least two of: anomaly/behavioural detection; graph analytics/network science/GNNs; entity resolution; NLP/GenAI; neural networks for sequence or representation learning
• A track record of independently delivering complex analytical solutions into live operational use, ideally within fraud, financial crime, or a comparably regulated, large-scale environment
• Practical understanding of AML/CTF obligations, Model Risk and Responsible AI frameworks

Please apply on-line below or for more information contact marie@bluefinresources.com.au

Consultant

All-BluefinAnalyticsNSW@bluefinresources.com.au

Reference number: BH-62535
Profession:Data & AnalyticsData Science

Company: Bluefin Resources
Date posted: 10th Sep, 2026