Senior Financial Crime Investigator (Payments/Cybercrime/Law Enforcement)

Black Pen Recruitment; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Law Enforcement Liaison Officer to serve as the primary contact with South African law enforcement. This role involves ensuring secure cooperation in criminal investigations, safeguarding the company’s operations, and managing relationships with law enforcement bodies. The ideal candidate will be a former SAPS officer with strong expertise in financial and cybercrime investigations, and a deep understanding of legal frameworks.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Act as liaison between client and law enforcement for investigations.
• Assist with responses to enquiries from law enforcement officials.
• Build relationships with SAPS, Hawks, NPA, and relevant entities.

Skills

Attention to detail

Proactive and solution-focused

High integrity and professionalism

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Former SAPS officer

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 client’s 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 part-time basis. They will help safeguard our client’s 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 solution-focused.
• 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 client’s 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 client’s 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 client’s Fraud Team.
• Policy Development: Help refine internal protocols for handling external law enforcement engagement.