Financial Crime Governance and Risk Analyst

Requisition Details

REQ 144513 Thembi Mtshali 

Location: Johannesburg 

Closing Date:  19 March 2026

Job Family

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

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.

Preferred Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Law, Governance, or a related discipline

Minimum Experience Level

3 - 5 years’ in Financial Crime, Risk, Governance, Audit, or Regulatory environments within financial services.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies