Forensic Pro-Active Investigator at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• To conduct proactive investigations in Nedbank and render forensic technical support to stakeholders to mitigate fraud risk and criminal liability and ensure regulatory requirements are met .

Job Responsibilities

• Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships and ensure close co-operation and exchange of information.
• Create awareness of criminal and/or unethical trends and modus operandi.
• Ensure stakeholder needs and expectations are met and keep stakeholders updated on progress of requests for analytical and forensic support.
• Contribute to a culture of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives, business strategy and CSI.
• Address issues raised in culture surveys to improve results.
• Deliver a worldclass service through client service culture. Achieve operational excellence.
• Influence the enhancement of business processes and methodologies.
• Contribute to combating fraud at industry level by alerting stakeholders of potential fraudulent events.
• Prevent risks by participating during post mortems meetings and analysing trends and patterns.
• Ensure costs are recovered per time allocation and transfer pricing agreements with stakeholders.
• Fulfil and gain an understanding of stakeholder needs, and the analytical and forensic support requests.
• Provide analytical and forensic support to stakeholders.
• Ensure accurate presentation of evidence.
• Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.
• Ensure personal growth and application of new competence to enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring that all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframes.
• Ensure up skilling and effective handover to relevant responsible person.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses.
• Investigate unusual and/or suspicious system events by proactively analysing and investigating alerts, taking appropriate action and recommending potential solutions.
• Mitigate risk and prevent and/or reduce potential losses.
• Provide technical support to stakeholders. Identify gaps, make recommendations, improve processes and prevent reoccurrence of loss.
• Identify operational and risk related issues proactively.
• Monitor suspicious events and/or behaviour.
• Prevent further potential losses by alerting other banks of possible fraudulent transactions identified in the process of investigating alerts.
• Ensure regulatory standards for record keeping are met when preparing files for safekeeping.
• Ensure provision for losses are made and regulatory requirements are met and report claims and corruption cases.
• Report information regarding fraudulent trends to Enterprise Risk Committees (ERCOs) and enable implementation of preventative and corrective action.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Diploma: Criminal Justice and Forensic Investigation , Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Certifications

• Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners (ICFP) and/or Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), preferred not essential

Minimum Experience Level

• Minimum 3 years experience in a banking environment and/or conducting investigations