Financial Crime Officer job at Dfcu

Vacancy title:
Financial Crime Officer

Jobs at:
Dfcu

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, October 29 2025

Duty Station:
kampala | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 21 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Reporting to the Head- Financial Crime Management, the role holder is responsible for detecting, minimizing and preventing losses resulting from high risk and fraudulent monetary and non-monetary transactions through quality investigations, fraud risk assessments, fraud detection, training and awareness programmes.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Investigate any illegal acts characterized by deceit, concealment, or violation of trust.
• Conduct thorough investigations of reported fraud or suspicious activity and be able to create reports/summaries to be distributed to an appropriate investigation report distribution list of the bank Generate/gather facts/evidence to help prevent and deter fraud for both internal disciplinary action and courts proceedings.
• Take proactive measures to prevent losses through any of the following: performing investigations, placing deposit holds, restricting accounts, analyzing suspicious account activity and properly reporting and categorizing activity that has created loss exposure.
• Provide an independent and objective approach of fraud prevention and analysis within the Bank.
• Recommend to the HFCM the financial consequence to the bank of the results arising out of the investigated reports with good latitude to take some decisions with minimal supervision as dictated by the prevailing circumstances.
• Support the police investigations authorities on following up of suspects.
• Participate in root cause analysis on internal and external fraud investigations.
• Track and monitor fraud trends and escalate to management.
• Review accounts flagged for potential fraud or other violations such as potentially false information, identity theft, potential collusion with company employees in originating fraudulent loans, etc.
• Share fraud alerts in a timely manner.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with internal business owners to continually improve and strengthen fraud investigations and mitigate potential fraud risk.
• Provides ideas on the development of appropriate controls for the mitigation of financial crime risks.
• Supports the programme of raising staff awareness of financial crime issues, through training particularly “Whistle Blower” and the obligation to report suspicious transactions.
• Participates in the preparation of regular and accurate financial crime reports that are escalated to the relevant bank departments. i.e. determine how much loss has occurred due to fraud, recommend for appropriate actions and follow up the cases to their completion.
• Track different risks events associated with fraud and keep data to be used for sharing lessons learnt to reduce bank losses.
• Conduct periodic fraud risk assessments and deep dives in identified high risk areas and develop strategies to mitigate risks effectively.
• Collaborate with internal teams to implement fraud prevention measures including through bank wide training and awareness, communications on identified high risk areas and lessons learnt.
• Identification of new techniques to prevent future fraud.
• Support in financial crime loss recoveries.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business related disciplines.
• Certification in Fraud Examination (CFE).
• At least 3 years’ experience in financial crime investigation/prosecution or Internal Audit.
• Knowledge of banking, products, risks and processes such that advice is as informed, appropriate and relevant to business needs.
• Sufficient knowledge of the local laws, regulatory expectations and internal policy requirements as they relate to financial crime risk.
• Good interviewing skills to enlist required information.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel spreadsheets.
• Ability to collect, analyze and evaluate information and the preparation of written concise reports of work performed plus recommendations.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to foster cooperation and support of stakeholders.
• Possession of flexibility and ability to adapt appropriately to changing requirements and situations.
• Analytical and possession of an objective and probing mind.
• Supervision must be minimal, so the person has to be tolerant and be able to stand the pressure from courts in regard to cases taken before courts of law.
• Pressure from customers claiming refunds of stolen money, and the ability to recommend refunds accurately.
• Ability to make the right call even if it displeases anyone or group of staff.
• High level of maturity, confidentiality and objectivity.
• Excellent communications and engagement skills.
• Strong attention to detail and personal effectiveness.
• High level of integrity and standards.
• Self-drive and initiative.
• Unafraid to take responsibility.
• Ability to work effectively with local contemporaries and peers in other clusters and regions to maintain a collaborative culture.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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