Junior Specialist: Risk
5 days ago
Bring your possibility to life Define your career with us
- 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
To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialisation enabling the effective implementation of risk frameworks.
**Job Description**:
To take responsibility and to perform reviews of customers to identify and substantiate any potential financial crime risks or concerns.
Accountability: Operational Support and Coordination
- Perform reviews relating to financial crime risks by ensuring that the required SLA is achieved and take appropriate action to ensure that these timelines are met
- Obtain all relevant information and documentation related to a review. Scrutinise / analyse this information and documentation and make meaningful observations / conclusions regarding the findings.
- Assess all findings to establish trends and escalate all issues of a significant nature to the Customer Review Team Leader on a timely basis (as and when these occur) and through various meetings and reports (content presentation, accuracy, quality and completeness are important).
- Ensure that each review is of high quality, accurate, value adding conclusion, for the relevant review by conducting quality assurance/review (where applicable) on closed no-risk reviews.
- Evaluate and challenge information received from the local and in country teams with the objective of achieving continuous improvement in compliance and financial crime risk detection.
- Make meaningful recommendations for the various types of reviews. This will include but is not limited to system / people / process failures.
- Inform management of any suggestions or proposals to enhance review methodologies.
- Inform management immediately of any new trends which have been identified during reviews for further escalation to stakeholders.
Accountability: Reporting and Governance
- Review and assess customers to determine whether there are any potential financial crime risks that should be escalated to the Financial Crime Intelligence Unit.
- Report and escalate all financial crime or compliance risks and issues arising from businesses promptly and appropriately in accordance with Absa Group and local legal and regulatory requirements.
- Inform management regarding financial crime risk and compliance matters.
- Respond promptly to information requests from the Country MLRO’s and other stakeholders.
Accountability: Stakeholder Management
- Support the Customer Review Team Leader and Customer Review Manager by ensuring the effective coordination of information on a continuous basis.
- Build and maintain meaningful relationships with Group and in-country Financial Crime teams.
- Maintain professionalism in all verbal and written communication with stakeholders. The professionalism requirement also extends to personal appearance as well as adherence to acceptable business ethics.
Education
Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_
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