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About the Division

Our Forensic team sits with the Financial Advisory Africa team. The value that Deloitte Forensic Africa creates for organisations is synonymous with operational excellence. Our business areas work in unison to provide integrated solutions unique to the organisational requirements of any business.

Deloitte Forensic professionals are a diverse group with a wide and varied range of proficiencies, comprising forensic accountants, legal and law enforcement specialists, and business intelligence experts, all utilising state-of-the-art forensic technology.

What impact will you make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration, and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realise your full potential.

This will be an Assistant Manager role within the Forensic department, under our Economic and Financial Crime team.

Must have experience in:

• Financial Crime Compliance
• KYC, sanctions and transaction monitoring
• Economic crime investigations
• Data analytics

Specialised Technical capabilities

Financial Crime           

• Performs an independent assessment of business environment and identify internal and external risks
• Investigates transactional data and relevant financial documents to flag indictors of potential corruption
• Prepares analyses to enhance understanding of both financial and non-financial results to identify threats and opportunities
• Evaluates existing compliance programs for regulatory gaps and suspicious activity
• Partake in regulatory reporting investigations and due diligence
• Participate in AML audit support (AML reviews for annual statutory audits)

Data Analytics and Visualisation

• Ability to work with large and disparate data sources
• Required experience is MS SQL and/or Sas
• Required experience and knowledge of visualisations tools such as Tableau and/or PowerBI
• ERP knowledge of SAP, Oracle, etc. with experience in handling data in a forensically sound manner
• Required experience in delivering insights and value from data

Leadership Capabilities

• Living Our Purpose: Acts as a role model and inspires others to embrace and live our purpose and values
• Talent Development: Actively contributes to building the talent pipeline; creates a talent experience that attracts, develops and retains top talent and high performing teams
• Performance Drive: Creates opportunities to drive impact; anticipates client needs and delivers superior results by leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams across businesses and borders
• Influence: Builds deep relationships across a diverse network and uses a flexible influencing style to gain buy-in and drive impact
• Strategic Direction: Translates broader strategy into a compelling team vision and goals; aligns the team and sets priorities to achieve objectives
• Competitive Edge: Applies deep knowledge of disruptive trends and competitor activity to drive continuous improvement
• Inspirational Leadership: Establishes a strong leadership brand and inspires followership through passion, integrity, and appreciation of others

Core Professional and Technical Capabilities

• Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving: Helps client make confident decisions based on analyses of available information to manage critical business threats
• Business & Financial Acumen: Develops an effective plan by assessing the financial implication of risks faced by clients
• Delivery Excellence: Leads engagements and provides strategic direction to the team to deliver a superior client experience
• Executive Presence: Develops relationships, establishes credibility with, and instils confidence in clients
• Knows the Business & Industry: Comprehends how the client’s business works and keep up-to-date on industry/sector trends and leading practices
• Manages Quality & Risk: Actively manages the Firm’s risk from take-on through to completion of engagements

Required

• Min 3 year degree in relevant field (accounting, law, forensic)/CA (SA), Internal Audit essential
• Min 7 years of working experience

Preferred

• Experience in a client facing role
• ICFP/ACAMS certification, CFE/MBA is advantageous

Why Deloitte?
At Deloitte, we create positively differentiated work experiences that enable our people to feel valued and achieve their full potential. Deloitte Africa opens the door to a career that can cross borders virtually and physically across the African continent and globally to gain experience and access projects beyond our borders. We value difference, and embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. Knowing that people work best in a variety of ways, we are happy to discuss alternative arrangements if the working pattern you are looking for is not specifically indicated.

*Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.