Crime Analyst

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact**
- REQ 129666- Tshego Semenya- Location: Johannesburg**Cluster**
- Group Risk**Career Stream**
- Forensics
- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Technical

**Position**
- Crime Analyst**Job Purpose**
- To support forensic investigations through analysis of criminal activities to reduce organised crime infiltration and prevent potential losses in Nedbank.

**Responsibilities**:

- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.
- Share knowledge of trends and identified risks with team and stakeholders so that relevant upskilling takes place and effective handover is done.
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses.
- Interact with investigators and external stakeholders to gain an understanding of their analytical support requests in order to fulfil stakeholder needs.
- Interact with internal and external stakeholders to build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships to ensure close co-operation and exchange of information to mitigate risks.
- Meet stakeholders’ expectations.
- Create awareness of criminal and/or financial crime trends and modus operandi.
- Advise stakeholders on how to use analytical information.
- Manage allocated billable hours and ensure they are accounted for.
- Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
- Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and values, leading by example.
- Identify opportunities to influence the enhancement of business processes and methodologies, adding value to Nedbank.
- Perform intelligence activities in response to early warning alerts of events and trends.
- Provide analytical support to stakeholders by sourcing information and supplying relevant analytical products to mitigate risks.
- Evaluate information by assessing the reliability of the source, and the validity and quality of information, to gain informed insights about the analysis.
- Guide financial crime and high-profile investigative projects by analysing gaps in information, identifying links and building an understanding of the risk and financial crime typology.
- Provide assistance to external stakeholders by analysing financial crime matters that lead to minimising criminal actions across the industry.
- Highlight system and/or process deficiencies and gaps to stakeholders to ensure relevant preventative measures are implemented and corrective action taken.
- Respond to, and action requests for analytical support by providing criminal analysis support to stakeholders to prevent losses and mitigate risks.
- Investigate financial crime events by analysing information and take appropriate action, such as recommending potential solutions, process changes and/or raise awareness of modus operandi to business, to prevent potential losses, and where relevant, hand over to relevant stakeholders for further action.
- Using intelligence drawn from transactional reporting across the Group, provide financial crime risk mitigation analysis.
- Capture details of analysed information on case management system to assist with future prevention and/or mitigation of risk.

**Essential Qualifications - NQF Level**
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
- Preferred Qualification- Degree in Forensic accounting or
- Degree in Financial accounting/auditing
- Preferred Certifications- Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners (ICFP) and/or Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), preferred not essential
- Minimum Experience Level- Minimum 5 years’ in the forensic/investigative field, in a banking environment and/or conducting forensic investigations
- Team player with an investigative mindset
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Banking procedures
- Fraud investigation methodology
- Principles of project management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Risk management process and frameworks
- Technologies
- Business writing skills
- Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
- Business Acumen
- Behavioural Competencies- Communication
- Continuous Learning
- Decision Making
- Building the Sales Organization
- Quality Orientation
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

**Disclaimer**

**_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_**
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_