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Senior Forensic Specialist job at Multichoice Uganda | Apply Now

Are you looking for Administrative jobs in Uganda 2024? If yes, then you might be interested in Senior Forensic Specialist job at Multichoice Uganda

Kampala, Uganda

Full-time

Deadline: 

9 Aug 2024

MultiChoice Uganda is a subsidiary of the MultiChoice Group, a leading entertainment company in Africa. The company is renowned for providing a wide array of entertainment options, including satellite television, digital terrestrial television, and streaming services. MultiChoice operates popular brands such as DStv and GOtv, offering a rich variety of content from sports and movies to news and children's programming.

Since its inception, MultiChoice Uganda has been committed to bringing the best in entertainment to Ugandan households. The company's mission is to enrich lives through creative storytelling, technological innovation, and exceptional customer service. MultiChoice's investment in local content has also helped nurture the Ugandan film and television industry, creating numerous opportunities for local talent.

Senior Forensic Specialist job at Multichoice Uganda

Multichoice Uganda

The MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. We’re proud to say we serve 20 million subscribers across 52 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment. Key areas of operations are:

Storytelling ranging from content creation, production and aggregation including the best global general entertainment, sport and eminent African content library, delivered to customers
Pay Television: direct-to-home satellite and digital terrestrial television services;
SVOD: subscription video on demand services across multiple online platforms with a focus on library and local content in developing markets, and
Advertising: providing dynamic media solutions; handling commercial airtime, on-air sponsorships, content integration, and online sales across a variety of 130+ channel brands on linear TV, VOD, social media, and digital platforms.
The group’s strength lies in its focus on local language and culture, its entrepreneurial spirit and the quality of its workforce. Multichoice Group has a successful history of identifying trends early, adapting them for the markets in which it operates and leveraging them to maximum advantage. The group generates revenues primarily through subscription model, with a growing contribution from advertising revenue. Its key objectives are to:
Expand Pay TV, SVOD subscriber base and Advertising sales
Focus on investment and technology
Maintain a local approach
Provide quality service
Attract innovative and motivated employees
Join Africa’s most loved storyteller!

  • Support the achievement of strategic, business and proactive objectives through a focused approach to the monitoring and detection of fraudulent incidents and red flags for potential incidents that may impact the business to deliver on its strategy

  • Monitor identified fraud risks, potential instances and known system weaknesses that may lead to fraud and/ or other misconduct


  • Support the preparation of business-friendly strategies and solutions to address current fraud trends and mitigate against and prevent the future occurrence of fraud and/ or other misconduct in different contexts and circumstances

  • Finding long term solutions/ controls to support the business’ resilience to fraud and unethical behaviour

  • Oversee, initiate and plan fraud awareness campaigns and training in general and in specific areas of the business

  • Lead investigations supported by junior resources

  • Project management (including. tracking and guidance) in respect of all 3 Forensic pillars (response, prevention, detection)

  • Coach/ upskill/ manage junior resources, contractors and secondees

  • Support delivery of key operational processes, methodology/ policy updates

  • Quality assurance/ first line review of investigation associated deliverables

  • First round preparation of relevant Forum/ Committee submissions

  • Stakeholder management

  • Assist with third party budgeting/ finances

  • Conduct investigations as directed by the Manager: Forensic Services in line with best practice, internal processes and based on factual evidence


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  • A Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Accounting and Finance, Internal Audit, Business or Law

  • Professional qualification: CFE


Experience

  • 9+ years of the following forensics/ fraud experience

  • Conducting forensic investigations within corporate environments, relating to white collar crime and, amongst others, conflicts of interest

  • Preparing evidence files and interviewing witnesses and suspects

  • Leading evidence in internal disciplinary proceedings and criminal/ civil prosecutions

  • SAPS experience (including knowledge of prosecution procedures)

  • Understanding key features of laws relevant to the forensic investigations

  • Good knowledge of information sources and evidence handling, specifically with reference to electronic evidence

  • Demonstrated ability to analyse, evaluate and interpret data sets with a strong understanding and application of analytical techniques

  • Experience with forensic data analytics

  • Use of technology e.g. data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning in developing monitoring and detection techniques

  • Understand the line-of-sight between strategy and organisational implementation

  • Performing predictive analysis, as well as effective prevention, detection and response to fraud risks and engaging stakeholders on these insights

  • Remedial action development

  • Experience in risk practices, laws and regulations (including relevant regulatory or legislative frameworks)

  • Knowledge in the white-collar corporate environment in relation to forensic investigations and fraud awareness strategies

  • Fraud awareness training/ learning and development experience

  • Specialist knowledge of forensics and fraud awareness strategy in a corporate environment that spans the forensics value chain (predict, prevent, detect, recover, respond & remediate)

  • Managing diverse stakeholder groups and ability to navigate across regions

  • Interaction with senior and executive management


  • Ability to coordinate, work with and gain the trust of business stakeholders, technical resources, and third-party vendors

  • Established reputation for integrity, good judgment, fairness and discretion when dealing with staff and external parties

  • Experience in business areas such as marketing, procurement, inventory management, human resources, finance & accounting etc.

  • Ability to effectively communicate complex technical findings, recommendations and trends into clear and concise written and verbal communication


Technical Competencies

  • Excellent research and analytical skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills (including presenting to stakeholders)

  • Stakeholder management (senior management)

  • High degree of analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Demonstrated ability to prioritise and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

  • Industry knowledge

  • Organisational skills

  • MS Office (advanced Excel and PowerPoint)

  • Project and time management

  • SQL/ advanced Microsoft Excel or any other data analysis tools.

  • Case Management Systems

  • Fraud Investigations

  • Financial Analysis Project Management

  • Fraud Risk Management

  • Fraud Awareness Campaign Management

  • Advanced investigation reporting

  • Evidence Management

  • Fraud Risk Assessment

  • Engagement with Law Enforcement around matters reported

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