Fraud Prevention Analyst
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As a Fraud Prevention Analyst at Binance, you join our Brazil fraud team to conduct transactional monitoring, investigation, and fraud prevention within the Pix ecosystem. This role is central to our fiat operating channel and handles a high volume of cases where timeliness and attention to detail are essential.
What you'll do
- Monitor and action alerts generated by anti-fraud rules and tooling
- Investigate suspicious accounts and transactions, including beneficiary chains traced by MED 2.0 (up to 5 layers)
- Execute precautionary blocks, account blocks, and relationship terminations within your delegated authority
- Handle MED (Mecanismo Especial de Devolução) requests, both received and sent, within Pix Regulation deadlines including the 7-day merit-analysis clock (weekends and Brazilian holidays included)
- Record and query fraud markings in DICT and comply with all applicable regulatory flows
- Request information and documents from customers and track responses through to resolution
- Prepare analysis dossiers with clear, objective, well-founded reasoning
- Escalate cases with indications of money laundering (AML/TF) to the Compliance/PLD-FTP area for assessment of reporting to COAF
- Identify false positives and propose parameter adjustments and new detection rules
- Track key indicators: alert volume, response time, false-positive rate, and amounts blocked and recovered
What you bring
- Minimum 2 years of experience in fraud prevention or transaction monitoring within a financial or payment institution
- Hands-on experience with Pix: MED, precautionary blocking, DICT, and fraud markings
- Knowledge of the main fraud typologies affecting banking and payment rails
- Working knowledge of AML/CFT (PLD/FTP), banking secrecy, and LGPD
- Strong writing skills for producing opinions, dossiers, and formal communications
- Fluency in Portuguese and working proficiency in English (Binance is a global organization and you will work with global teams daily)
- Bachelor's degree minimum
Nice to have
- Experience parameterizing or calibrating anti-fraud rules
- Familiarity with high-value versus low-value case triage workflows
What we offer
- Competitive salary and company benefits
- Remote-first, work-from-home arrangement (may vary depending on the nature of the role and team)
About Binance
Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem and the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. Trusted by 300+ million people across 100+ countries, Binance provides industry-leading security, user fund transparency, trading engine speed, deep liquidity, and a broad portfolio of digital-asset products spanning trading, finance, education, research, payments, and institutional services.
Context for this role
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