Job Title: Fraud Specialist
Location: Rochester, NY
Employment: Temp (12 months)
Industry: Business Process Outsourcing
Compensation: $21.00/hr.
Schedule: 40 hours/week - 1
st shift
About the Opportunity:
- Investigate, remediate and respond to fraud activity reported by clients and internal business partners.
- This includes combating external threats, minimizing internal impact, educating clients on best practices and working with financial institutions to freeze bank accounts and return illicit funds to reduce losses.
- Review high risk clients and transactions identified through fraud defense programs to ensure repeat offenders are properly identified and vetted and high risk transactions are prevented.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Receive inbound fraud concerns and escalations reported through clients and internal partners via phone queue and static email channels.
- Ensure escalations are properly and timely investigated and resolved to reduce losses and exposure.
- Contact and coordinate with financial institutions to freeze bank accounts and retrieve illicit funds once a fraudulent transaction has been processed.
- Submit letters of Indemnification and follow through with investigation results with banks and clients.
- Analyze and track reported cases of check fraud including counterfeit checks and forged endorsements.
- Work with field partners to provide guidance and protocol to resolve matters while tracking incident statistics for monthly trend reporting.
- Assist internal partners and clients in situations that involve the exposure of personally identifiable information through mail or data crossover.
- Ensure proper policies and procedures are followed in accordance with laws and regulations and provide resolution such as investigation results and credit monitoring offerings.
- Evaluate and mitigate risk with clients who fail authentication screening onboarding.
- Ensure the legitimacy and creditworthiness of clients through research tools and resources and take remedial action if necessary to reduce exposure.
- Enter and track fraud cases into central repository for trending, reporting, information sharing and feeds into fraud defense programs.
- Information may also be used by Fraud Investigators for potential criminal action.
- Other job responsibilities pertinent to the position.
What You'll Bring:
- Associate Degree in Criminal Justice or Economic Crime Investigation or Finance or Business.
- 1+ years of experience in fraud, investigations, banking, compliance, business, finance.
What Sets You Apart:
- Excellent partnership and communication skills needed as client-facing unit.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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May 22, 2026