PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE ANALYST
Grade: P3
Windhoek
Minimum Experience: 5+ Years with A minimum of four (4) years’ experience in overseeing complex financial investigations, analysis, forensic auditing, commerce of which at least three (3) years must have been at a supervisory level.
Minimum Qualification: Bachelors Degree in • A B Com Hon Degree in Accounting, Forensic Accounting/Audit, Commerce, or related field. • Certifications in AML/CFT/CPF and Financials crimes such as Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), Fraud Examiner (CFE), Financial Crime, ESAAMLG Assessor, FATF Standards training and Leadership Training would be an added advantage
Closing Date: 01 October 2025
Knowledge & Skills
- Knowledge of FATF Standards and Methodology
- Knowledge of overseeing the collection, handling and intelligence products
- Knowledge of Financial Analysis and Investigation Techniques • Planning and Coordination skills
- Analytical Skills
- Report writing Skills
- Presentation Skills
- Project Management Skills
- Research Skills
Duties & Responsibilities
The principal accountabilities of this position are to:
• Conduct Research, consolidate, and recommend input for the divisional strategic plan, SOPs, policies, and internal controls. Coordinate the development of divisional goals and key performance indicators for the team to ensure alignment with the FIC’s overall 3–5- year strategic plan. Additionally, provide support for the division’s digital transformation and business process redesign initiatives.
• Partake in Mutual Evaluation Activities, National Risk Assessments (NRA), manage and support stakeholder engagements and ensure responses to surveys.
• Timely review, approval, and allocation of medium- and high-priority Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) and Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) from Accountable Institutions, Regulatory Authorities, and Supervisory Bodies.
• Timely and efficient allocation of requests for information received from domestic Law Enforcement Agencies and Competent Authorities for analysis.
• Timely and efficient allocation of requests for information received from foreign Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) for analysis.
• Provide overall oversight and management of financial analysis activities by reviewing and approving intelligence products for dissemination to Law Enforcement Agencies of senior and junior analysts. Ensure quality assurance across high, complex, and medium cases, and guarantee timely assignment and response to requests from foreign FIUs.
• Conduct timely and quality analysis of high priority/complex multiple cases assigned, draft intelligence reports for dissemination to Law Enforcement Agencies.
• Coordinate and ensure the finalization of case workflows and facilitate the secure exchange of information with Law Enforcement Agencies through the FIC secure web portal (goAML) and other approved platforms, including direct stakeholder engagements.
• Review and recommend set-aside reports and case re-prioritization to the Manager, providing justification for low-priority classifications and ensuring that decisions are supported by factors and manage referrals.
• Support high-level multi-agency financial intelligence analysis and investigations by motivating suitable cases and providing recommendations to the Manager for consideration in other multi-agency projects and operations.
• Review and provide recommendations on referral reports to the Legal, Policy & Enforcement Division, Compliance Division, and Strategic Analysis Division, including reports on non-compliance, strategic trends, and typologies Office Use Only\General.
• Provide input on the drafting of MOUs and ensure adherence to the terms and conditions of existing MOUs with stakeholders (NAMRA, NAMPOL, NCIS, OPG, and ACC), including submission of the division’s AML/CFT/CPF statistics to the central statistics database, and reporting on operational progress and stakeholder feedback.
• Review and submit statistical reports, including monthly reports on cases disseminated to the LEA and PSD, providing support for investigations of FIC intelligence products related to tracing, seizure, preservation, confiscation, forfeiture of criminal proceeds, and prosecution. Additionally, review and ensure the timely submission of other divisional contributions to the FIC’s periodic reports—weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually—as well as responses to stakeholder surveys.
• Coordinate divisional staff development, mentoring, people management, and skills building initiatives, and assist in the development of training programmes in financial intelligence analysis, ensuring the implementation and effective use of financial intelligence analysis tools to enhance staff capabilities.