Forensic Accountant Graduate

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

REQ 115602- Tshego Semenya

Career Stream

Forensics

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Technical

Position

Forensic Accountant Graduate

Job Purpose

To provide forensic accounting support to Nedbank Group to ensure fraud and reputational risks are identified and mitigated; criminal liability mitigated and regulatory requirements met.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture of transformation goals by participating in culture building initiatives, business strategy and CSI.
• Influence the enhancement of business processes and methodologies.
• Deliver forensic evidence to stakeholders.
• Assist stakeholders by providing forensic evidence and secondary evidence in support of internal disciplinary processes.
• Assist stakeholders in the investigations and quantification of fraud.
• Enumerate external and internal claims, quantify and qualify fraud exposure.
• Provide support to stakeholders and assist in conducting high profile and complex investigations.
• Identify and report control weaknesses, process and product inadequacies, recommend actions and solutions to business, and highlight implications of not implementing recommendations for corrective action.
• Conduct forensic accounting investigations and/or ad hoc requests to qualify and quantify fraud exposure.
• Deliver the required output by preparing working papers and files according to rules of evidence for future reference in court cases and disciplinary hearings.
• Ensure costs are recovered per time allocation and transfer pricing agreements with stakeholders.
• Improve client service and results. Improve business performance and prevent further potential losses and reputational risk.
• Prevent and/or reduce potential losses by ensuring that forensic issues are reported to the relevant Enterprise Risk Committee (ERCO) for the implementation of preventative strategies across Nedbank.
• 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.
• Ensure upskilling and effective handover to relevant responsible person.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes to improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses.
• Meet with various stakeholders to obtain an understanding of their forensic accounting needs.
• Provide independent expert opinion and evidence to either support, or refute claims and/or allegations by assisting to, consult with, internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure stakeholders needs and expectations are managed and met.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including those that aid in internal forensic accounting investigations and external criminal investigations

Minimum Experience Level

• Not applicable though previous vacation or practical work in banking/ investigation/ accounting environments would beneficial.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Post Graduate Diploma: Risk Management , Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Certifications

• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioner membership (ICFP) - not essential

Type of Exposure

• Conducting root cause analysis
• Analysing situations or data that require an in depth evaluation of multiple factors
• Developing ways to minimize risks
• Drafting reports
• Managing conflict situations
• Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas
• Sharing information in different ways to increase others' understanding
• Comparing two or more sets of information
• Analysing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data Working with a group to identify alternative solutions to a problem
• Building and maintaining effective relationships externally and internally
• Managing multiple projects
• Answering customer questions
• Identifying fraud trends
• Giving evidence
• Conducting forensic accounting investigations

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Business Acumen
• Cluster specific operations
• Compliance reporting
• Industry trends
• Interviewing techniques
• Legal Risk and practice management
• Principles of project management
• Risk management process and frameworks
• Forensic accounting methodology

Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566