Investigation Specialist at Anglo American

Job Description:

The purpose of the Investigation Specialist role is to conduct investigations into allegations of breaches of business principles as agreed with management, making recommendations as an outcome of the investigation about specific systemic issues that need to be addressed across the BU or Group and ensure procedures are consistently adopted across the Business Units.

The role involves an integration of accounting, auditing and investigative skills, where procedures would be performed to investigate potential irregularities in financial and operation documents, reports, amongst others sources. 
It also involves getting appraised of all investigations in AA ensuring the investigation framework is applied to the work being performed and all key stakeholders are kept up to date with investigations backlog, critical and sensitive matters and results of work performed.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Perform an integration of accounting, auditing and investigative skills, where procedures are set to investigate potential irregularities in financial, operation and code of conduct related aspects.

• Ensure all investigations are properly documented and reported and management actions are properly followed up both in terms of mitigation actions and disciplinary procedures if applicable.

• Extracting data from financial records and preparing investigation reports from the findings.

• Preparing analytical data in preparing for investigations .

• Understanding the wider economic and legal implications of a case.

• Prepare reports of procedures undertaken and findings.

• Assist the fraud risk assessment in Business Units and Corporate environment.

• Help developing and implementing the Investigation framework.

• Ensure results of investigations are reported where control environment improvements or disciplinary actions are needed.

Qualifications:

• Relevant Accounting/Audit degree or equivalent

• Professional qualification e.g. Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Fraud Examiner

Role-Specific Knowledge and Experience:

• Good understanding of corporate governance requirements in relation to risk management and internal audit.

• Ability to apply a broad range of data analytical techniques to draw conclusions and optimise financial performance.

• Ability to set organisational standards and processes around governance and compliance.

• Understand impact of potential changes in policies, competition, technology.