City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
With over 10 of experience in the financial industry, I have developed a strong foundation in detecting, preventing, and investigating financial crimes. My expertise includes but is not limited to anti-money laundering (AML), fraud detection, sanctions compliance, and risk assessment.
Perform real time screening of newly onboarded High Risk and politically exposed people (PEP). Perform annual reviews of SA, Rest of Africa, Channel Island and PEP clients, which includes transactional analysis. Adverse media reviews. Sanction reports Engagement with client to obtain appropriate and adequate Know Your Client (KYC) information. Collaborate with difference divisions to meet set objectives. Reporting on risks identified during reviews. Aligning with risk trends identified. Training of new team members.
Performance of audits based on the companies' draft financial statements provided. Execution of pre-engagement activities with the objective to obtain knowledge of the business. Planning of the audit. Managing a team, budget and reporting of an engagement Performance of risk assessment procedures and make recommendations to those Charged with Governance. Performing and evaluating reconciliations of financial information (e.g. bank reconciliations, accounts payable/receivable reconciliation, general ledger control account reconciliations, reconciliations between management accounts and the general ledger, etc.). Presentation of audit findings Supervising daily activities of the audit team to ensure on-time completion of audit work and mentoring the junior members of the team. Drafting of Annual Financial Statements using Caseware. Preparing information for stakeholder’s meetings and reports.
Plans and executes new methods to grow portfolio with new and existing clients. Interprets financial statements to support responsible credit management. Assessment of clients’ cash flow. Sales - products and solutions to clients. Developing and managing key stakeholder relationships that enable achievements of operational objectives. Reporting to stakeholders.
Evaluation of the company’s policies against the legislation. Evaluation of the internal controls based on the system that the client has/should have in place. Reporting on findings and discussing with the client on recommendations made.