About the position
JOB PURPOSE
To manage the activities and output of multi-disciplinary analytical team(s) to gather, analyse, interpret and represent financial and relevant intelligence in support of the Financial Intelligence Centre's mandate.
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
Delivery and success
- Effective management of specialised teams within discretion, policy, procedure, and legislative powers to ensure output of a variety of highly complex, timely and quality financial intelligence products.
- Work in conjunction with other divisions within the FIC, government departments/agencies and relevant role players to ensure access to appropriate information.
- Work with senior members of government departments / agencies and role players in support of producing complex, complete and accurate output.
- Advise senior management of regulatory, legislative and financial intelligence challenges when appropriate and offer solutions where required.
- Conduct presentations of a highly technical nature to informed audiences.
- Represent the organisation at designated working groups, meetings, conferences, and seminars and contribute towards informed decision making.
- Develop and execute of delivery plans within policy, precedent, and standards to achieve objectives and reporting on achievements in terms of work plans as and when required.
- Focuses continuously on delivery as per predefined plans.
- Makes changes to improve performance and reduce risk.
- Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure targets are achieved within agreed deadlines and standards.
People management
- Manage and lead project team(s) output using own judgment and experience to offer independent, prompt solutions to a variety of highly complex investigative assistance and the ability to act within defined freedom, exercising appropriate options in terms of risk management.
- Manages workflows and plans and ensures clarity around accountabilities.
- Ensures that the functions objectives are well known and achievable.
- Ensure that the areas objectives are met by scheduling and prioritizing the activities, allocation of work, resourcing, and individual's performance so that the highest level of output and quality is achieved.
- Leadership of subordinates so that they collaborate competently and with full commitment with manager and with others in pursuing the goals set.
- Performance is actively managed and encourages and enables teamwork.
- Encourages and enables teamwork.
Planning and organizing
- Directly plans and reports on units outputs; Identifies any possible deviations and problems which will affect output and develops and implement alternative plans.
- Develops and plans functional unit's quarterly plan in line with the area's annual.
- Reports on work plans - achievement of quantity, quality and time targets.
Resources management
- Manage allocated resources to ensure effective and efficient delivery.
- Makes recommendation on resources and budgetary requirements for annual planning purposes.
- Controls costs through effective management of principle business or operating process variables.
- Operationalizes plans and deploys resources to meet clearly calculated plans and objectives over a typical bi-annual horizon.
- Ensure optimisation of resources and control cost where needed and report on the utilisation of the FIC's financial intelligence products.
EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- A relevant degree coupled with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience (analysis, investigation, law / law enforcement) is a prerequisite. A postgraduate (NQF 8) or higher will be advantageous
- A minimum of 3 - 7 years management is required.
- Anti-money laundering training or practical experience in the field of combating the proceeds of crime or forensic accountancy investigations is a prerequisite.
- Ability to gain cooperation and persuasion of others based on relevant experience and applied skills.
- Applied advanced knowledge of the Constitution / Criminal Procedure Act / the intelligence cycle / the POCA and FIC Act as well as the law of evidence.
- Display and apply advanced knowledge and experience of working with the domestic criminal justice and security cluster value chain and an understanding of the domestic financial regulatory framework.
- Sound knowledge and experience using the Microsoft office suite and Excel.
