Senior Compliance Officer: Guidance and Outreach

Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Financial Intelligence Centre invites applications for a Senior Compliance Officer: Guidance and Outreach based in Gauteng. The role delivers guidance outputs, publications, and awareness activities to support the Compliance and Prevention division.

You will engage with supervisory bodies, regulated institutions, and stakeholders, develop guidance products, coordinate communications, and mentor junior staff within the division.

Qualifications

• Law degree (NQF level 7) is required.
• CAMS certification or Compliance diploma is required.
• A minimum of 6 years’ AML/CFT/CPF experience.
• Experience in a regulatory environment or at group level in a large financial institution is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Deliver guidance workstream outputs, including guidance products and publications.
• Provide technical support for stakeholder engagements on AML/CFT/CPF guidance.
• Coordinate the publications plan and manage approvals, reviews and tracking.
• Assist with PQP framework, templates, governance and QA processes.
• Conduct formal presentations on AML/CFT/CPF risk and compliance matters.
• Coach and mentor graduates and junior teams within the division.
• Support compliance training initiatives and stakeholder awareness sessions.
• Establish and maintain relationships with supervisory bodies and regulated institutions.

Skills

Customer Service

Flexibility

Impact and influence

Contextual Awareness

Organisational Commitment

Commitment to professional learning

Teamwork

Conceptual Thinking

Initiative

Education

Law degree (NQF level 7)

CAMS certification or Compliance diploma

Job description

Senior Compliance Officer: Guidance and Outreach - (571)

Senior Compliance Officer: Guidance and Outreach

Organizational Unit

Financial Intelligence Centre > Compliance and Prevention

Job Type

Permanent

Education

Location

Travel

10 - 20%

Desired Race

African, Coloured

Desired Gender

Male

Closing Date

19/10/2026

The FIC is an equal opportunity employer. Preference will be given to suitably qualified applicants in line with our employment targets and our commitment to diversifying our workforce. As part of our recruitment and selection process, persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. All appointments are subject to satisfactory reference checks and security clearance.

Job Description

JOB PURPOSE

Responsible for the delivery of Guidance workstream outputs, including guidance products, related publications, guidance-to-awareness integration, technical support for stakeholder engagements, and AML/CFT/CPF guidance activities within the Compliance and Prevention Division, to achieve divisional outputs.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Provide technical guidance and prevention expertise regarding regulated institutions, persons, and sectors under the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001 (FIC Act).
• Provide input into developing an annual strategic G&P plan.
• Develop a sound understanding of various regulated institutions and sectors under the FIC Act.
• Identify challenges and compliance related issues experienced within industry sectors affected by the FIC Act, and guide and advise on suitable solutions.
• Monitor domestic developments which impact on the control measures to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing.
• Critically assess the need for guidance to supervisory bodies, regulated institutions and sectors on the application of the FIC Act.
• Provide input into the guidance scope and draft guidance products for approval and publication. This includes, owning, coordinating and supporting the implementation of the allocated guidance products, including internal review, consultation readiness, stakeholder input resolution, approval-readiness, publication/issuance support, progress reporting, action tracking and record-keeping evidence.
• Support and facilitate FIC-owned awareness sessions and stakeholder engagements, ensuring that approved guidance content is accurately translated into awareness presentations, FAQs, scripts and related material.
• Provide technical support for stakeholder awareness engagements, including presentation support, preparation of material where required, and participation in accepted stakeholder invitations aligned to divisional targets.
• Develop, review, coordinate and support publications plan, including topic planning, content development, review actions, approval readiness, publisher liaison support, quality sign-off, implementation tracking and evidence of completion.
• Assist with PQP framework, template, workflow, governance, quality assurance, trend analysis and reporting support, including the review/update of PQP manuals and templates, sampled QA reviews where allocated, escalation of material inconsistencies, and maintenance of evidence records.
• Conduct presentations of technical information concerning anti-money laundering, counter terrorist financing and combatting proliferation financing (AML/CFT/CPF) risk and compliance matters.
• Contribute to the management and administration of the Risk and Compliance Return process.
• Build, manage and maintain professional relationships with relevant supervisory bodies, regulated institutions and other parties affected by FIC Act.
• Work closely with other units within the division and across FIC to deliver on outputs.
• Provide support in responding to queries from the public and stakeholders on the FIC Act.
• Support Mutual Evaluation readiness, evidence preparation and implementation actions, including providing input into AML/CFT/CPF products, action plans, reporting inputs, technical matters and information requests within prescribed timelines.
• Serve as technical reference to team members and offer solutions to complex guidance and presentation matters.
• Support compliance training initiatives.
• Coach, mentor, guide and review the work of graduates, call center and public query teams and other team members within the division.
• Perform any other duties or provide assistance, where required, for onsite visits, compliance reviews and inspections.

EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Law degree ( NQF level 7)
• CAMS certification or Compliance diploma
• A minimum of 6 years’ experience within an AML/CFT/CPF environment
• Experience within a regulatory environment or at group level in a large financial institution would be an added advantage

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Customer Service - Permanently seeks additional information about the customer that will help him or her provide the best possible service.
• Flexibility – Adapts tactics while maintaining the same overall plan or strategy, changes how to accomplish the plan.
• Impact and influence - Adapts a presentation or discussion to appeal to the interest or level of others.
• Contextual Awareness – is able to fully understand and explain to others, how domestic events or trends will impact on the organisation and its core process.
• Organisational Commitment – Acts to support the organisation’s mission and goals.
• Commitment to professional learning – finds out and permanently scans what the latest trends are in the local market (what other organisations’ practices are, new technologies, etc.)
• Teamwork - Proactively helps other colleagues when in difficult professional situations.
• Conceptual Thinking - Makes complex ideas or situations clear, simple and/or understandable to others.
• Achievement Orientation - Makes specific changes within the work system or in own work methods to improve performance.
• Initiative - Demonstrates the ability to anticipate and proactively manage all the variables involved, to ensure that critical opportunities for the Centre are not missed