Specialist Investigator: Financial Crime Intelligence Unit - JHB at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

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.
• Assessing the impact of Financial Crime threats and risks on a global scale, breaking down jurisdiction and business silo barriers – applying a risk based approach to business units, customers, jurisdictions and product.
• Taking the outcomes from intelligence led investigations 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.

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.

Accountability: Monitoring

• Utilise the rich sources of Customer, Transactional and Geospatial data to develop flexible  rule  based  profiling  models  to  monitor  and  detect  on-going  Financial Crime red flags.
• Be actively involved in the delivery of the next generation of analytics based monitoring capabilities through the development of statistical based detection models.
• Monitor media publications to detect customers that are linked to adverse media and would pose a legal-, reputational-, concentration-, regulatory or a credit-risk to the firm.
• Accountability: Stakeholder Management
• Be actively involved in engagement with key stakeholders to ensure effective partnership both internally and externally.
• Provide guidance to the Business as a consequence of outcomes and outputs from intelligence driven activity.
• Lead by example, appreciates their role in providing guidance and education and training to others.
• Able to clearly navigate and articulate the importance of the FC Control Environment to the business that is as a consequence of intelligence activity, whether internally or externally driven.
• Able to educate colleagues and skillfully provide simple explanations, real world case studies.
• Able to effectively present/ facilitate FC training if required.
• Embraces change and sponsors improvements as a consequence of the outputs of intelligence led or driven activity.
• Technology & Change – Work closely with Technology & Change functions to build an industry leading analytics capability.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Law, Military Science and Security (Required)