Senior Specialist in Cash and International Funds

Senior Specialist, Cash Threshold and International Funds Transfer

This involves process governance and spans the entire value chain, including regulatory interpretation, process design, development, and execution. This is crucial to ensuring that business is conducted legally and ethically in order to protect the Group's competitive edge and prevent operational losses, fines, penalties, or reputational damage.

**Qualification and Experiences**

IT Degree

10 years’ experience

**Responsibilities**

Develop and maintain the CTR/IFTR Framework - covering strategy, policies, processes, controls, procedures, standards, guidelines, training, objectives, metrics and governance - to ensure consistency of implementation and the alignment with Bank standards and to the changing regulatory and legislative requirements across all relevant countries and jurisdictions and international best practices and standards.

**Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes Required**

**Required Experience**

**Risk, Regulatory, Prudential & Compliance**
- Keep up with current trends and typologies so you may use this knowledge to inform the Framework, raise awareness of novel operating procedures, and spot potential dangers.
- Establish and maintain a Group-level reporting system across all nations and jurisdictions to guarantee that the necessary Group committees, forums, and regulators get consolidated, effective, high-quality, and consistent reporting.
- Keep up with and analyse pertinent legislative and regulatory developments, taking into account all the various jurisdictions in which the Group operates, in order to inform the Functional Framework, report on the developments, comprehend the implications for the organization, and provide Business Lines and Corporate Functions with specialized advice.
- Keep up with and analyse pertaining legislative and regulatory developments, taking into account all the various jurisdictions in which the Group operates, in order to inform the Functional Framework, report on the developments, comprehend the implications for the organization, and provide Business Lines and Corporate Functions with specialized advice.
- To ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory regulations, establish best practice procedures and systems for business areas to efficiently monitor and control adherence, conformance, and compliance to all functional policies and standards in accordance with the authorized Compliance Toolbox.
- Ensure high quality Group level reporting and assurance to the relevant Boards, audit committees, executive management, other relevant forums, and the regulator by offering the line manager input and support.
- Ensure high quality Group level reporting and assurance to the relevant Boards, audit committees, executive management, other relevant forums, and the regulator by offering the line manager input and support.
- To fulfil the demands imposed by governmental agencies, regulators, industry regulations, or internal policies, implement, manage, and take part in effective governance systems.
- In order to track the framework's implementation, lead and participate in oversight committees and forums that are relevant to your specialized field of knowledge.
- Oversee the CTR/IFTR Framework's implementation.
- Provide input and support to the line manager in preparing formal directives or responses on behalf of the Standard Bank Group (SBG) to requests from Regulators and Line Managers.
- To assist the line manager in drafting official instructions or comments on behalf of the Standard Bank Group (SBG) to inquiries from regulators and line managers, provide input and support.
- Maintain your expertise and familiarity with best practices in the specialty area or functional emphasis and make the required suggestions for modification and improvement.

**Technology & Architecture**
- Participate in the development of the CoE's technology plan within the framework of the Group IT and Compliance Function plans. Develop the pertinent technological needs using your domain experience. Abide by and put into practice the pertinent tech standards created by the IT Function.

**Client**
- Carry out internal and external client-facing activities in accordance with the established policies, procedures, and service level agreements. Product owners and Accountable Institutions are examples of internal clients. The Financial Intelligence Center and the South African Reserve Bank are examples of external clients.

**Data**
- Contribute to the definition and maintenance of the functional area's data model in adherence to the Group's data security standards.
- Advice on the collection, capturing and maintenance of data to ensure the information is reliable and therefore will effectively guide critical business decisions.
- Deliver holistically on all the regulatory and internal reporting requirements. Produce aggregated and reliable reports and formulate pertinent observations to enable the effectiveness of crit