We are currently recruiting for a Money Laundering Investigator to work on a 12-month contract for a financial institution, based in Johannesburg, to investigate unusual and/or suspicious transactions that may fall within the ambit of money laundering.
Job Responsibilities:
- Highlight relevant risks pertaining to potential money laundering activities.
- Provide objective input to stakeholders on, and create awareness of, unusual and/or suspicious activities and actions to be implemented, to mitigate risk, maintain collaborative relationships, and meet the expectations and needs of clients.
- Respond to requests for guidance on unusual and/or suspicious activities from stakeholders.
- Manage billable hours allocated. Investigate alleged unusual and/or suspicious transactions.
- Maintain knowledge management, and improve team success by sharing knowledge with the team to ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders.
- Use and access various resources to conduct investigations and report unusual and/or suspicious activities. Substantiate referral of unusual and/or suspicious activities.
- Analyse information by following quality standards and methodology, compile reports containing findings of unusual and/or suspicious transactions and submit reports of these transactions to the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) to meet regulatory requirements.
- Record details of unusual and/or suspicious transactions.
- Identify operational and risk-related issues.
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Diploma
Preferred Qualification
- Bachelor of Arts: Law, Certificate: Money Laundering Control, Relevant B-degrees
- Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners (ICFP), Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) - preferred, not essential
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Forensic examination
- Fraud investigation methodology
- Governance, Risk, and Controls
- Money laundering
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Business writing skills
Please apply as soon as possible if you feel you meet all the necessary requirements.
