Job Description

Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary Design, implement and monitor proactive fraud prevention and detection measures for all employees, across the lifecycle of the employee within Absa across Relationship Banking, Everyday Banking and Product Solution segments. Ensure internal fraud risk is minimized during development of new products, systems and processes and are minimized across the Absa Retail and Business Banking environments on a proactive basis as well as implementing and monitoring internal fraud risk strategies across Absa SA.



Accountability: Strategy Management

• Development of internal fraud strategies
• Execution & monitoring of internal fraud strategies across Absa SA
• Collaborate subject matter expertise to assess existing and emerging fraud threats
• Manage fraud strategy delivery within fraud risk appetite and industry trends
• Work with respective fraud teams and frontline to deliver preventative and detective internal fraud strategies

Accountability: Customer/Product Onboarding Risk and Control Management

• Accountable for measuring the target risk in line within the employee on-boarding and fraud control framework and fraud strategy objectives
• Ensure process control-and-risk management practices that impact internal fraud during product development, system enhancements, customer engagements and back office processes are well documented and understood by all role players within the control lifecycle
• Work with lines of defence and management assurance to scope control framework reviews and provide support
• Implement effective measures to track and implement corrective actions with lines of defence or assurance
• Ensure fraud risk management practices are compliant within regulations
• Implement the development of the key risk indicator scenarios impacting customer or product on-boarding and customer authentication process from a fraud perspective, weigh in on the likelihood of occurrence and potential impact and provide insights linked to industry benchmarks
• Measure the fraud control framework with key performance indicators to assess design and operational effectiveness
• Produce thought leadership within business to deliver industry leading fraud prevention and detection strategies Accountability Relationship Management
• Proactively provide expert advice to identify business opportunities and risks, determine the impact, patterns, and trends thereof and advise on alternative solutions in anticipation of future challenges
• Conduct Business specific fraud assurance activities, as required
• Present the fraud risk level position at various committees against risk targets agreed with business
• Act as key interface between Fraud Strategy, Fraud Analytics, Fraud Solutions, Forensics, and Insider Threat
• Actively engage stakeholders to raise ongoing awareness on risks and consequences of internal fraud
• Contribute to a culture of employee and customer excellence, that builds positive relationships and provides opportunities for feedback and exceptional service
• Engage proactively with key stakeholders

Accountability: Governance, Risk and Compliance

• Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the job
• Ensure all activities and duties fully comply with regulatory requirements, the Enterprise Risk Management Framework and internal Policies and Standards.
• Ensure that all compliance, regulatory, governance or other risk standards are adhered to by all service providers and other stakeholders

Accountability: People and culture management

• Apply a collaborative and inspirational leadership style to create an engaging, enabling, and productive work climate and enable self-organised and customer focused multi-disciplinary colleagues to deliver on an outcomes-based performance basis.
• Achieve high performance through embedding formal development plans and informal coaching.
• Implement a robust knowledge management and agile learning system to support real-time learning

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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