Integrated Financial Crime Data Analyst

Requisition Details

REQ 144151 Thembi Mtshali 

Location: Johannesburg 

Closing Date : 20 February 2026

Job Family

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

Job Purpose

To support Financial Crime and Governance initiatives by maintaining and enhancing data assets, producing intelligence analytics, and enabling investigative and reporting functions. This includes forensic data extraction, analysis and reconstruction to support casework, control effectiveness assessments, regulatory reporting, and governance insights.

Job Responsibilities

• Structure data into compliance standards by adhering to metadata governance procedures according to Nedbank documented standards and formats.
• Manage final transformed data content by complying to prescribed standards for reviewing and publishing.
• Assist/govern population of datamart and metadata repository by complying to standards, systems, processes and procedures.
• Execute link analysis, behavioural patterns, entity resolution, and anomaly identification to support forensic investigations.
• Partner with Forensic Investigations to provide data‑driven insights for casework, investigative hypotheses and evidentiary analysis.

• Deliver work according to customer expectations by prioritizing, planning and implementing requirements.

• Utilize resources by adhering to standards, policies and procedures.
• Identify and escalate data‑related risks across Financial Crime systems.

Job Responsibilities Continue

• Participate in risk assessments, RCA, operational risk processes, and process/governance redesign initiatives.
• Align and continuously improve set processes by identifying innovation opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate risk by executing within governance.
• Resolve incidents by logging and tracking through correct channels.
• Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role by reading the relevant newsletters, websites and attending sessions.
• Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed, experience practiced and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames.
• Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing knowledge with team.  
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes, systems and policies and support implementation of new processes, policies and systems.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Degree in Information Technology or Business Management, Mathematical/Statistics

Essential Certifications

Minimum Experience Level

8 years relevant experience, including at least 3–5 years in Financial Crime, Forensic Analytics, Governance Reporting, or similar risk environments.

• Experience working with forensic teams or investigative environments.
• Experience with case management systems or governance MI.
• Experience in integrating data across multiple systems in regulated environments.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies