Senior Manager AML, CFT, CPF & Sanctions

nedbank; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Johannesburg seeks an experienced professional to oversee AML compliance and manage risk assessments. The ideal candidate should have a degree and 8-10 years of experience in AML, CFT, and sanctions management. Responsibilities include providing compliance training, engaging with stakeholders, and ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements. This role offers a dynamic environment for managing compliance and risk oversight within a reputable financial institution.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years' experience in AML, CFT, and sanctions.
• Experience in banking and reporting.
• Strong project management skills and managing people.

Responsibilities

• Oversight of compliance and risk management.
• Training and awareness management for AML and related requirements.
• Engagement with stakeholders to ensure compliance.

Skills

Governance Risks and Controls

Project Management

Regulatory knowledge

Business writing skills

Execution

Driving for Results

Building Partnerships

Strategic Planning

Stress Tolerance

Business Acumen

Education

Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

BCom and/or LLB

Job description

Details

Location: Johannesburg, ZA

Date: 19 Jan 2026

Reference: 143728

Job Family

• Risk, Audit and Compliance

Job Purpose

• To have oversight, direct, drive, provide advice and input into the management of research, analysis, interpretation, development, and maintenance of AML, CFT, CPF and sanctions Business as Usual (BAU) requirements; and manage all AML, CFT, CPF and sanctions training, awareness, and communication requirements based on regulatory requirements and informed by best practice and associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing, and sanctions risk management to ensure local and international regulatory standards across the Nedbank Group are met.

Job Responsibilities

• Oversight of the management of Business-As-Usual matters related to the Risk Management and Compliance Programme (RMCP) policies, principles, methodologies, and processes to ensure alignment with best practice and regulatory risk requirements.
• Management of all training, awareness and communication related to AML, CFT, CPF and sanctions requirements to ensure alignment with best practice and regulatory risk requirements.
• Provide advice and manage the provision of advice to stakeholders on Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Terrorist Financing, and sanctions (AML, CFT CPF and Sanctions) risk management requirements to ensure understanding and compliance regulatory requirements and alignment with best practice in terms of risk management.
• Ensure identification of the likelihood and probability of being imposed with a regulatory risk penalty, criminal liability, and/or administrative sanction, through managing the identification, assessment, management of regulatory risk requirements and implementation and training of regulatory requirements.
• Provide and manage the provision of advice, guidance and assistance to local regulatory risk requirements and Nedbank Group regulatory risk standards to ensure mitigation of risk associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing, and sanctions.
• Interact and manage the interaction with stakeholders to convey best practice and regulatory risk requirements and to understand stakeholder expectations and/or requirements to ensure mitigation of risk and fulfilment of expectations.
• Interact and manage the interaction with stakeholders, through formal and informal engagements to build and maintain collaborative relationships and to ensure alignment of regulatory requirements as set by South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) and Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA).
• Maintain stakeholder relationships by representation through formal and informal channels to ensure collaborative relationships.

Job Responsibilities Continued

• Maintain relationships with external stakeholders such as BASA, SARB, FIC & FSCA to provide input to guidance notes/Public Compliance Communications (PCC's), any ML, TF, PF and Sanctions industry related matter.
• Drive, manage and lead the process of the identification, assessment, and management of risk through development and maintenance of risk assessments.
• Ensure the management of the analysis and accurate identification of risks and gaps through review of relevant information to mitigate risks associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, and sanctions.
• Monitor the identification of risks identified, feedback and corrective action implemented through oversight of engagements with stakeholders, to ensure these risks are monitored through applicable governance forums and structures.
• Utilise resources effectively and efficiently by delegating deliverables according to specialised skills-set to ensure work completed to correct standard and expectations.
• Represent and/or support the Chief AML, CFT, CPF and Sanctions Officer at relevant governance forums, structures, meetings, engagements, regulatory interactions when required.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification

• BCom and/or LLB

Preferred Certifications

• ACAMS or UJ AML certificate preferable

Minimum Experience Level

• 8 - 10 years
• AML, CFT, Sanctions (7-10 years)
• Banking (5-7 years)
• Reporting (3-6 yrs)
• Project Management (3 -6yrs)
• Managing People (5 – 7 years)

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Governance Risks and Controls
• Project Management
• Regulatory knowledge
• Business writing skills
• Execution
• Driving for Results
• Building Partnerships
• Strategic Planning
• Stress Tolerance
• Business Acumen

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