Senior Cybercrime Investigator

Black Pen Recruitment; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector is seeking a Law Enforcement Liaison Officer to serve as their primary contact with South African law enforcement. This role requires a former SAPS officer with a strong legal background to mitigate risks and ensure secure cooperation in criminal investigations.

Qualifications

• Former SAPS officer with experience in financial and cybercrime investigations.
• Proven experience working with South African law enforcement and intelligence bodies.
• Strong knowledge of South African legal frameworks around criminal procedure and financial crime.

Responsibilities

• Act as the liaison between the client and law enforcement officers.
• Assist with responses to enquiries from law enforcement officials.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with law enforcement bodies.

Skills

Attention to detail

Proactive and solution-focused

High integrity and professionalism

Job description

Our client is committed to building a financial system that works for all this includes consumers merchants banks regulators and law enforcement. Fraud and identity are unfortunately still significant challenges for everyone involved in payments and commerce. Our client is committed to combatting this and is building both tools and capabilities to improve its abilities in this space. The Law Enforcement Community (LEC) does a great deal to support the victims of crime and seek out the perpetrators so our client is looking to build a strong connection with LEC.

Role overview

The Law Enforcement Liaison Officer serves as our clients dedicated point of contact with South African law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities. The Law Enforcement Liaison Officer will ensure timely lawful and secure cooperation in matters involving criminal investigations on a parttime basis. They will help safeguard our clients staff operations customers and reputation by mitigating risk and enabling constructive coordinated engagement with law enforcement bodies including the SAPS Hawks and NPA.

Job Type : Full time / Permanent

Location : South Africa

Workplace : Hybrid

Requirements

• Former SAPS officer with experience in financial and cybercrime investigations.
• Proven experience working with or within South African law enforcement and intelligence bodies.
• Strong knowledge of South African legal frameworks around criminal procedure digital evidence data privacy and financial crime.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Proactive and solutionfocused.
• High integrity and professionalism.
• Willing to work under pressure in order to meet strict deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Law Enforcement Interface : Act as the liaison between our client and law enforcement officers in relation to enquiries requests and investigations relating to our clients services systems or users.
• Incident Response : Work with internal teams (e.g. Fraud and Legal) to assist with responses to enquiries from law enforcement officials.
• External Relationship Management : Build and maintain trusted working relationships with SAPS Hawks NPA SAPS Computer Crime Unit and any other relevant entities.
• Training and Awareness : Educate our clients teams on procedures for dealing with law enforcement thresholds for cooperation and privacy / security implications.
• Threat Intelligence : Report intelligence on relevant crime trends fraud typologies and emerging threats to our clients Fraud Team.
• Policy Development : Help refine internal protocols for handling external law enforcement engagement.

Key Skills

Epidemiology,Public Health,Bank Secrecy Act,Bioinformatics,Fraud,Genetics,Interviewing,Law Enforcement,Qualitative Research Interviewing,Research Experience,Next Generation Sequencing,Writing Skills

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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