Overview
Financial Crime Governance and Risk Analyst Jobs in Johannesburg, South Africa at Nedbank
Requisition Details
Location:
Johannesburg
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Self:
Technical
Job Purpose
To support the Head:
Integrated Financial Crime and Governance by enabling effective financial crime governance, regulatory compliance, and risk oversight across the Group. The role is responsible for coordinating financial crime governance inputs, analysing regulatory and risk data, and acting as an integration point between Financial Crime, Fraud Risk, AML, ESG, Regulatory Risk, and Audit stakeholders. This role goes beyond traditional operational risk analysis and requires strong governance judgement, regulatory interpretation, and stakeholder management capabilities.
Job Responsibilities
Coordinate and prepare Financial Crime governance inputs for ESG disclosures, Integrated Reports, NELS submissions, and other internal or external governance reports.
Manage end-to-end delivery of governance content, including consolidation of inputs, version control, quality assurance and adherence to submission timelines.
Add value to Nedbank by identifying and recommending opportunities to enhance processes, systems and policies.
Analyse regulatory developments (e.g. FATF publications, auditing standards, fraud-related pronouncements) and assess their implications for Financial Crime governance.
Support updates to Financial Crime-related frameworks policies and governance documents.
Perform bespoke risk and data analysis to support management decision-making.
Analyse, reconcile and validate financial crime loss data across multiple systems and sources.
Identify data integrity issues and facilitate resolution with Fraud Operations, Group Forensic Services and other stakeholders.
Support the identification, definition, monitoring and escalation of Financial Crime-related KRI’s.
Act as a key coordination point between Financial Crime, Fraud Risk, AML, Regulatory Risk, ESG, Audit and other relevant stakeholders.
Provide technical guidance on Financial Crime governance and risk matters to internal stakeholders.
Identify opportunities to enhance Financial Crime governance processes, reporting and data quality.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of Financial Crime governance practices and frameworks.
Share knowledge and insights within the team to strengthen overall governance capability.
Participate in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. Staff surveys etc.); thereby contributing to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals.
Perform bespoke analysis on operational risk data elements in support of the risk management team.
Monitor and track implementation of corrective/management actions through scheduled follow-up reviews.
Participate in the outcome of risk control self-assessment conducted by stakeholders.
Support the input (loss data; risk control self-assessments; key risk indicators); into input analysis by review the accuracy and adequacy of information and comparing information to external data.
Ensure all learning activities are completed within specified time frames to support personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities.
Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Law, Governance, or a related discipline
3 – 5 years’ in Financial Crime, Risk, Governance, Audit, or Regulatory environments within financial services.
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Relevant Nedbank product knowledge
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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
Title: Financial Crime Governance and Risk Analyst
Company: Nedbank
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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