MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS:
- Relevant Honours Degree (NQF Level 8) in Forensic Science; Enterprise Risk Management; Internal Audit; Finance, or related field (economics, business management, statistics, or law).
- Certification in Fraud Risk Management (CFRM).
- Membership to a professional body, e.g. Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).
IDEAL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
- MPhil Fraud Risk Management.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
- 8 years or more within a fully-fledged Compliance environment.
- 5 years’ experience in:-
- Fraud risk profiling/assessment value chain (from identification through to reporting)
- Analysis of key trends in relation to the institutional fraud risk landscape, including emerging risks.
- Effective coordination of whistleblowing activities, including proactive response to hotline reports.
- Undertaking preliminary forensic investigations with confidentiality and deadline-driven posture.
- Leading fraud and forensics related training and awareness across an organisation.
- Responding to practical complexities pertaining to fraud and forensics related cases.
- Evaluation of an institutional fraud and forensics value chain, including implemented recommendations for improvement.
- Development of fraud and forensics governance documents, including socialisation across an organisation.
- Combined Assurance Framework (CAF).
- Contract management, identifying loopholes and unmitigated risks prior to executive sign-off.
- Project management with tangible outcomes/impact.
- Interacting across all hierarchical levels (At all levels within the institution), viz. with line management and other CAF lines of assurance role players.
Ideal Experience:
- Experience in the Higher Education Sector.
- Insights into organisational strategy.
- Experience in the implementation of an ERM software.
- Experience in serving on an oversight structure, even if as merely an internal role player.
MIMIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENT:
Membership, in good standing, with a professional fraud-focused body, viz.:-
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), or
- Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners (ICFP), or Equivalent
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
FRAUD AND FORENSICS GOVERNANCE
Develop and/or update fraud and forensics related policies, frameworks, and procedures, including:
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Policy
- ERM Framework
- Fraud, Bribery, and Corruption Prevention Policy
- Conflict of Interest Policy
- Whistleblowing Policy
- Undertake benchmarking as a source of innovation and infusion of market trends, demonstrating a growth mindset.
- Integrate institutional strategy into governance documents to ensure alignment and awareness.
- Produce detailed reports and dashboards with graphical illustrations, highlighting the interconnectedness of fraud, corruption, and control breaches.
FRAUD RESPONSE PLANNING & PREVENTION
- Proactively track fraud-related red flags across institutional activities and develop appropriate mitigation tactics.
- Capture and track lessons learned from forensic investigation reports and use these insights to strengthen prevention measures.
- Act as a sounding board for first-line assurance role players by shaping fraud-sensitive dialogue.
- Provide actionable input into the university’s green-paper processes, informed by market best practices.
- Contribute towards AppFactory MoUs, MoAs, and other agreements by identifying fraud-related loopholes.
- Promote and embed a strong risk management philosophy and culture.
FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS MANAGEMENT
- Engage relevant leadership team members to capture critical details for RFQ specifications.
- Compile RFQs for projects requiring external forensic services, ensuring specifications are well scoped.
- Liaise effectively with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and track evidence, and identify emerging fraud trends.
Apply protocols for forensic investigations, including:
- Evidence gathering to safeguard integrity of investigations
- Competent compilation of evidence for possible criminal prosecution
- Conduct thorough root cause analyses of fraud cases.
- Present evidence at disciplinary hearings to defend forensic reports and ensure accountability.
WHISTLEBLOWING AND HOTLINE
- Liaise with the external service provider administering the whistleblowing hotline.
- Manage and coordinate whistleblowing processes, ensuring confidentiality, responsiveness, and organisational trust in the system.
FRAUD AWARENESS AND TRAINING
- Contribute to creating a culture of openness and accountability across DUT.
- Lead fraud awareness and training sessions, drawing on case studies, local and global (glocal) market trends, and lessons learned from investigations.
- Promote institutional resilience by embedding fraud awareness across all organisational levels.
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