Head Intelligence

3 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

Financial Crime is responsible for ensuring that the Group manages the risks of money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions and bribery and corruption and, in so doing, protects the Group, its customers and its employees, as well as society at large, from the negative effects of financial crime. The Financial Crime function implements a Financial Crime Risk framework to meet the requirements of anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism, anti-bribery & corruption and economic sanctions laws and regulation.

The Head of the Intelligence, and Surveillance (I & S) will be responsible for all aspects of monitoring, surveillance, investigation and reporting as well as for the identification and assessment of new and emerging threats against the Bank. Also formulating the strategic direction and appropriate intelligence led activity across Africa to ensure that we have a top in class capability which enables the firm the appropriately manage financial crime and terrorist financing risk and which ensures we are compliant with all related regulatory requirements and expectations.

A key requirement of the role is to build out a robust, firm-wide platform and team to enable a data driven approach to managing risk and which also drives a top-class analytics and intelligence capability to enhance and strengthen the firm's management of financial crime and terrorist financing.

**Job Description**:
The key specific accountabilities of this role would be the following:

- Leading the development of the I&S capability for Absa through the development and implementation of a Target Operating Model;
- Designing and delivering a robust surveillance, monitoring and reporting platform and capability which meets the requirements and expectations of all regulatory stakeholders;
- Taking the outcomes from intelligence led activity and ensuring these are embedded in the business;
- Working with local regulatory authorities to develop solutions that are of relevance to the Bank;
- Act as a primary contact for working with law enforcement and government agencies on Financial Crime matters/issues;
- Working closely with analytics in the development of a data acquisition strategy and deployment of supporting toolsets;
- Lead and build a global analytics capability to support and enhance existing functionality whilst developing analytic based tools to support the next generation of intelligence development, investigations and monitoring detection;
- The development of this analytics capability is considered critical to the future management of Financial Crime risk, where exploitation of traditional and non-traditional data sources is key to countering an ever evolving threat profile;
- Directly accountable for defining the strategy for a data and analytics capability to support the I&S capability and the broader Financial Crime function;
- Lead and drive collaboration and convergence of economic crime disciplines to further improve the effectiveness of Absa’s risk mitigants
- Play a pro-active and leading role in driving external and industry wide impact to manage and mitigate financial crime risk - this includes BASA, SABRIC, SAMLIT, SARS etc
- Build and grow strong external relationships and engagements which positively contribute to Absa’s crime fighting capabilities i.e. United for Wildlife, DPCI, National Prosecuting Authority, Financial Intelligence Centre

Accountability: Intelligence
- Providing a data capability to support strategic intelligence activities;
- Utilising internal & external data to undertake holistic reviews of high risk customer segments, industries and financial crime typologies;
- Thematic trend analysis of internal risk events (SARS / Court Orders / Exits / Payment breaches); and
- Working in conjunction with the local FIU to support public/private partnership with external agencies to support the Counter-Terrorism and Anti-Money Laundering agenda

Accountability: Monitoring
- Utilise the rich sources of Customer, Transactional and Account data to develop flexible rule based profiling models to monitor and detect on-going Financial Crime red flags;
- Drive the delivery of the next generation of analytics based monitoring capabilities through the development of statistical based detection models;
- Undertake analytic based assessments to validate Financial Crimes compliance with key policies, controls and regulations; and
- Potential to provide an analytics capability to support the Optimisation team within Transaction Monitoring.

Accountability: Stakeholder management and leadership
- Initiates early engagement with key stakeholders to ensure effective pa

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