Specialist Investigator

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant**
- REQ 136707 Thembi Mtshali- Location: Johannesburg- Closing date: 11 November 2024- Job Family- Risk, Audit and Compliance
- Career Stream- Forensics
- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Professional
- FAIS Affected**Job Purpose**
- To conduct complex and high-profile investigations by following forensic and relevant methodologies to mitigate fraud, reputational risk, and criminal liability, ensuring regulatory requirements in Nedbank, including subsidiaries, are met.**Responsibilities**:

- Build, manage, and maintain relationships through face-to-face interaction and networking with stakeholders across divisional boundaries, and attend industry and professional forums.
- Obtain expert opinion and evidence and determine the veracity of claims and/or allegations.
- Ensure needs and expectations of clients are managed and/or met.
- Present findings of investigations in formal reports to relevant stakeholders for implementation of recommendations and actions required.
- Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture-building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
- Influence the enhancement of business processes and methodologies.
- Ensure costs are recovered per time allocation and transfer pricing agreements with stakeholders.
- Ensure work is completed to plan and conduct high-profile and complex investigations.
- Improve processes and prevent reoccurrence of similar future incidences.
- Highlight implications of not implementing recommendations.
- Highlight suspicious events, prevent further potential losses, comply with regulatory obligations and requirements, and prevent potential reputational risk.
- Conduct investigations and/or ad hoc requests to report fraudulent and/or inappropriate activities.
- Ensure adherence to internal methodologies in preparing case files.
- Ensure provision for claims are made and regulatory requirements are met, and report claims and corruption cases.
- Improve business performance and prevent further potential losses and/or reputational risk.
- Investigate possible fraudulent claims and prevent further potential losses.
- Ensure reporting to the relevant Enterprise Risk Committee (ERCO) takes place for preventative strategies to be implemented across Nedbank.
- Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in the field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression.
- Ensure upskilling and effective handover to relevant responsible person.
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes that will improve the functioning of stakeholders’ businesses.

**Job Responsibilities Continue**
- Where required assist the Bank to Lead evidence in complex disciplinary and post-termination enquiries, particularly where staff may attempt to obtain legal representation.
- Assist in guiding peer Investigators on complex cases not limited to corruption matters.
- Assist in reviewing complex draft investigation reports.

**People Specification**
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Post Graduate Degree
- Matric/ Nation Senior Certificate/ Grade 12
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Post Graduate Degree, Chartered Accountant- Essential Certifications- Minimum Experience Level- 8 years in banking/prosecution/investigation/accounting environment
- Proven track record in leading evidence in complex disciplinary and post-termination enquiries
- Types of Exposures- Analysing situations or data that require an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors
- Drafting reports
- Managing conflict situations
- Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas
- Sharing information in different ways to increase internal stakeholders’ understanding
- Interacting with diverse people
- Building and maintaining effective cross-functional relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Answering customer questions
- Managing multiple projects and collaborating across teams
- Communicating complex information in writing and verbally

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Cluster specific operations
- Compliance reporting
- Fraud investigation methodology
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Industry trends
- Interviewing techniques
- Legal Risk and practice management
- Principles of project management
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Fraud Risk Management Process And Frameworks
- Behavioural Competencies- Building Customer Loyalty
- Communication
- Collaborating
- Decision Making
- Managing Work
- Quality Orientation
- Disclaimer**_Please contact the Nedbank._**
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_



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