Senior Specialist: Forensics

4 days 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

AGL Financial Crime are responsible for ensuring that the Bank manages the risks of money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions and bribery and corruption and, in so doing, protects the Bank, 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.

A key requirement of the role is to build out a robust, firm-wide capability 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.

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

- Being actively involved in delivering a robust FIU capability which meets the requirements and expectations of all regulatory stakeholders.
- Being actively involved in the development of intelligence products that are both strategic and operational in nature.
- Taking the outcomes from intelligence led activity and ensuring these are embedded in the business.
- Working closely with analytics in the development of a data acquisition strategy and deployment of supporting toolsets.
- Actively seek to enhance the profile of the FCIU by adding value to business in regular engagements.

**Job Description**:
Accountability Operational Support and Coordination
- Manage and perform detailed investigations from various sources with a view to put context to data, trends and indicators.
- Assess all data, trends and indicators and escalate all issues of a significant nature to the appropriate stakeholders on a timely basis through interactions and submission of reports (content presentation, accuracy, quality and completeness are important).
- Be able to identify relevant legal-, reputational-, concentration-, regulatory and credit-risks and to verbalise same in an appropriate manner to enable the relevant business unit to manage its client-relationships accordingly.
- Capture appropriate, accurate and reliable data on the relevant case management system to allow effective MI being communicated.
- Evaluate and add value to information received from internal
- and external-stakeholders with the objective of turning the information into intelligence, thereby enhancing the profile of the FCIU and improving the unit’s value proposition.
- Make meaningful and appropriate recommendations in any communications/reports/interactions becoming a relevant trusted advisor and business enabler.
- Manage and perform detailed investigations relating to Anti Money Laundering from various sources.
- Obtain all relevant evidence related to an investigation. Scrutinise/analyse this evidence and make meaningful observations/conclusions regarding the findings.
- Assess all findings in order to establish trends and escalate all issues of a significant nature to the appropriate stakeholders 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 investigation is of high quality, accurate, value adding conclusion, for the type of investigation being conducted.
- Collate appropriate, accurate and reliable MI to effectively manage compliance risks.
- Evaluate and challenge information received from the local and in country teams with the objective of achieving continuous improvement in compliance.
- Make meaningful recommendations for the various types of investigations. This will include, but is not limited to system/people/process failures.
- Inform management of any suggestions or proposals to enhance investigative methodologies.
- Inform management immediately of any new trends which have been identified during investigations for further escalation to stakeholders.

Accountability Operational Support and Coordination
- Be responsible for all aspects of monitoring, surveillance, and investigation and reporting as well as for the identification and assessment of new and emerging threats (including, but not limited to, Illicit Financial Flows, Terror Financing, Wildlife Trafficking, Investment Scheme Fraud, Human Trafficking, Tax Fraud, Corruption and Cryptocurrencies) against the Bank making use of existing typologies, use case and indicators to detect the existence thereof in the Bank.
- Formulating the strategic direction and appropriate intelligence led activity across Africa to ensure that we have a top i



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