31 Forensic Specialists jobs in South Africa

Designation:

Forensic Specialist

Category:

Group Finance

Level:

Skilled

Closing date:

19-Sep-2025

Position Type:

Permanent

Location:

MultiChoice City

Job Description:

The MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa with presence in amongst others the Netherlands, Dubai and the UK with principal operations in pay television (pay-TV), Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD), advertising and content security. Brands within the MultiChoice 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 more than 50 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment.

By joining our passionate and creative team, you can help us achieve our objectives of expanding our pay-TV and SVOD (Subscription Video On demand) subscriber bases, improving advertising sales, spearheading cutting-edge technology, supporting local content and providing an exceptional customer experience.

Join Africa's most loved storyteller

Reports to: Senior Forensic Specialist

Direct Reports: None

Division: Finance Department: Group Internal Audit and Forensic Services Key Customers: Multichoice Group

Purpose of the Position

Investigations

• Provides critical support to the Forensic Services department in identifying and investigating incidents of fraud, misconduct, and non-compliance across the MultiChoice Group.
• Responsibilities include gathering and analysing evidence, conducting interviews with relevant stakeholders, compiling comprehensive investigation reports, and contributing to the identification of control gaps and process weaknesses.
• Proactively identifies opportunities for fraud/ misconduct and investigates.

Fraud insights and awareness

• Supports continuous improvement by providing actionable forensic-related insights and trends.
• Plays an active role in promoting fraud awareness across the Group through training initiatives, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge sharing, thereby strengthening the organisation's overall fraud risk management framework.

Key Performance Areas

Conducting investigations

Conduct investigations

• Undertakes investigations into irregularities as directed by the Senior Manager: Forensic Services, under the oversight of the Senior Forensic Specialist, in line with best practices, internal protocols, and based on factual evidence.

Case logging and record keeping

• Promptly and comprehensively logs and initiates investigations into all allegations or suspicions received, relating to potential violations within the Group.
• Maintains accurate and timely records of investigations in the case management system, ensuring key information and issues are properly documented and reported.

Evidence collection, evaluation and analysis

• Collects, verifies and analyses electronic data/ transactions from multiple systems and other sources and interprets documents to identify potential fraudulent trends and activities.
• Evaluates information by assessing the reliability of the source, and the validity and quality of information, to gain informed insights.

Suspect/ witness/ relevant individual identification and interviews

• Identifies suspects/ witnesses/ other relevant individuals and conducts interviews to gather information and substantiate findings
• Analyses the activities of individuals, groups, and organisations using appropriate techniques.

Evidence Compilation

• Collates and presents compelling, comprehensive evidence to support internal disciplinary processes and external proceedings (criminal and civil), with the aim of minimising financial loss, reputational damage, and other irregular behaviour.

Reporting/ deliverables

• Drafts clear and comprehensive investigation reports and communicates findings to relevant internal stakeholders.

Corrective action

• Ensures relevant corrective/ disciplinary action is taken in line with relevant policies and supports Human Capital and management where necessary

Control weakness identification

• Highlights potential system or process deficiencies based on investigation outcomes and recommends preventative measures, process improvements, and training initiatives to stakeholders.

Recovery procedures

• Supports the institution of recovery procedures in collaboration with Legal and other relevant stakeholders.

Law enforcement liaison

• Engages with law enforcement to support the prosecution of cases, ensuring compliance with applicable policies and legislation.

Cross-functional collaboration

• Works closely with internal departments including Legal, Human Capital, and Risk & Compliance to support investigations and ensure alignment.

Confidentiality management

• Handles highly sensitive and confidential information with discretion and professionalism.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Builds and maintains effective working relationships with business and functional stakeholders, ensuring management is kept informed of investigative developments.

Preventing and detection Control enhancement

• Supports the identification and implementation of long-term controls and solutions that strengthen the organisation's resilience to fraud.

Insights and continuous Improvement

• Contributes to the identification of themes, trends, and lessons learned from investigations to support continuous improvement of business processes and the control environment.

Reporting

• Provides input into reporting on fraud risk trends, control effectiveness, and mitigation actions to relevant stakeholders.

Awareness campaigns and planning

• Assists in initiating and planning fraud awareness campaigns and training sessions, both general and tailored to specific business areas.
• Identifies specific learning gaps and contribute to the development or refresh of fraud awareness training materials and courses to address those gaps.
• Supports the design and implementation of an annual fraud awareness training plan aligned with business needs and risk priorities.
• Ensures the smooth execution of fraud awareness training initiatives, including accurate recordkeeping and monitoring of participation and completion.

Qualification

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

Experience & Skills

• 3-5 years of the following forensics 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
• Advanced technical report writing
• Leading evidence in internal disciplinary proceedings and criminal/ civil prosecutions
• SAPS experience (including knowledge of prosecution procedures) is beneficial
• Understanding key features of laws relevant to the forensic investigations
• Good knowledge of information sources and evidence handling, specifically with reference to electronic evidence
• Demonstrate ability to analyse, evaluate and interpret data sets with a strong understanding and application of analytical techniques
• Experience with forensic data analytics
• Remedial action development
• Fraud awareness training experience
• 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, sales etc.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical findings, recommendations and trends into clear and concise written and verbal communication.

Technical Competencies

• Excellent research, analytical skills and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Stakeholder management (senior management)
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Industry knowledge
• Ability to multi-task
• Organisational skills
• MS Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Project and time management
• SQL, advanced Microsoft Excel or any other data analysis tools is beneficial

Forensic Pro-active Service

· Identifies areas where fraud risk management may be of further assistance to management in the achievement of goals and objectives of the department.

· Provides fraud training, awareness and campaigns.

· Maintains MIS registers.

· Conducts fraud awareness and training.

· Promotes internal audit and forensic services in overall engagements.

· Promotes the fraud hotline.

· Maintains a training register and record of fraud hotline incidents.

Operational Function / Management

· Conduct allocated forensic investigations according to required methodologies and standards.

· Investigate and follow-up on matters emanating from fraud hotline reports allocated by the management.

· Conduct interviews, obtain statements/affidavits, and gather factual evidence with regards to forensic investigations.

· Analyze information, statements/affidavits, research, and evidence gathered.

· Provide regular feedback on the progress of investigations to the Senior Manager.

· Represent the organization and lead/provide evidence in appropriate forums. (Disciplinary Actions, Criminal/Civil proceedings, Labor Proceedings and Loss Recovery processes).

· Assist in the Fraud Awareness campaigns to SACAA officials and stakeholders.

· Establish and maintain sound relationships with forensic stakeholders and law enforcement agencies.

· Compile forensic investigation reports.

· Ensure efficient and accurate project administration.

Document information and transaction flow

· Understands the relevant aspects of the areas that are under investigation.

· Maintains chain of custody.

Assist with the implementation of corrective actions

· Prepares evidence to support recommended corrective actions.

· Leads investigation and provides evidence in corrective actions tribunals.

· Liaises and engages with law enforcement agencies.

Perform unscheduled forensic activities

· Assists the internal audit team as and when requested by management.

· Participates in fraud risk management projects as and when requested or required.

Communication and stakeholder management

· Ensures that investigation clients are regularly and timeously informed regarding commencement and progress of investigations.

· Ensures that communication (written and verbal) with clients, peers and superiors are factual, regular, timeous and accurate.

· Manages relationships with clients and other stakeholders.

Job Type: Temporary

Contract length: 12 months

Education:

• Bachelors (Preferred)

Experience:

• Forensic Investigation / Fraud Management : 6 years (Required)
• Fraud Risk Management / Assessments: 6 years (Required)

Location:

• Centurion, Gauteng (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

1. An appropriate degree or equivalent qualification in any of the following:

(a) Forensic Auditing/Investigations.

(c) Accounting/Audit

Candidate must be a CFE

(e) At least 5 years' appropriate work experience in conducting forensic investigations.

(f) A minimum of 3 traceable references to be submitted with applications.

JOB DESCRIPTION

1. The candidate will be responsible and accountable for supervising, leading, conducting and reporting on forensic investigations, and ensuring that project work conforms to the Morar Incorporated methodology and any standards set by the ACFE.

2. The candidate will be required to conduct forensic investigations throughout South Africa and therefore will be required to travel.

3. The candidate must possess a valid driver's licence and vehicle and be prepared to travel extensively at short notice.

4. The position aims to achieve investigative objectives through quality, in-depth reviews and deliver quality investigations and reporting, as well as execute work programmes with each investigation to ensure that investigative objectives and factual reports are produced.

5. The candidate will be required to testify at disciplinary, criminal and civil proceedings.

6. The incumbent must possess the following skills:

(a) Report writing.

(b) Data interrogation.

(c) Interviewing of witnesses and suspects.

(d) Drafting of affidavits.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From R200,00 per hour

Work Location: In person

JOB PURPOSE

To lead the execution and delivery of forensic investigations, ensuring quality, timeliness, and value-added service to clients. The Forensic Manager plays a strategic role in managing projects, leading teams, developing client relationships, and supporting the division's growth through business development, innovation, and operational excellence.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the planning and execution of forensic fieldwork and engagements.
• Supervise and provide on-the-job training to junior and mid-level staff.
• Ensure high-quality, accurate, and timely draft reports.
• Identify risks, red flags, and relevant evidence throughout the investigation.
• Act as primary liaison with clients and stakeholders during engagements.
• Deliver insightful, value-added recommendations based on forensic findings.
• Oversee full project lifecycle — from scoping to close-out — ensuring administration, budgeting, and timelines are effectively managed.
• Ensure optimal resource allocation and staff utilization.
• Build and maintain long-term client relationships to ensure repeat business and client satisfaction.
• Promote innovation, quality standards, and continuous improvement within the team.

Qualifications

• Must be a registered CA (SA)
• BCom in Forensic Accounting / BCom Accounting / BCom Law
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) or similar professional certification (e.g., CAMS, CA(SA), LLB) is advantageous

Experience

• Minimum 4–5 years in forensic investigations, including work in both the public and private sector
• Experience in fraud risk management, probity audits, and compliance reviews
• Exposure to the full investigation cycle — from scoping and execution to reporting and court preparation
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and relevant forensic software/tools

• Investigate allegations of irregularities including fraud in line with policies, procedures and legislation and/or in line with department's methodology
• Ensure that financial and business records are accurate, reliable and complete
• Use the appropriate tools/investigative methodologies e.g. data analytics in order to obtain the necessary evidence on allegations
• Engage with relevant stakeholders during investigation process, which include internal and external staff, management as well as SAPS
• Compilation of comprehensive reports on all investigated incidence which should include findings,recommendations

• Create fraud awareness internally through the different mediums

• Degree or Diploma - Forensic investigating and Auditing or Accounting

• CFE/CFP advantageous
• Valid Drivers Licence
• 2 years of accounting/ auditing/ criminology and investigation
• Investigative techniques
• An in-depth knowledge and understanding of the financial services sector;
• Ability to identify fraudulent/suspicious practices from an AML perspective;
• Conflict management skills / strong problem solving skills.
• Communication skills (verbal/written) at all levels
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Willing to travel

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Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly experienced person with a minimum of 6 to10 years experience as a Forensic Investigator to join our team in Pretoria. The successful candidate will lead a variety of investigations, focusing on fraud, corruption, and economic crime within diverse organizational settings. This role requires a seasoned professional with a strong background in financial forensic environments, capable of managing complex investigations and delivering meticulous reports.

Minimum Qualifications Required:

• Current Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and/or Forensic Practitioner (FP) credential
• Bachelor's Degree in Forensics, Law, Accounting or Data Analytics
• Honours, Masters or PhD in an applicable field would be advantageous.

Experience:

• Minimum of 6 to 10 years working experience as a
  Forensic Investigator
• Demonstrated experience in people and investigation management at the investigator level
• Strong MFMA and PFMA experience would be advantageous.

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Application Deadline:

Friday 17 October 2025 – midnight. No applications will be accepted after this deadline.

Join Our Team:

If you are a dedicated professional with a passion for the forensic field and a commitment to ethical conduct, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in our organization and the broader community.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in our workforce.

JOB PURPOSE

Identify and prevent internal and external fraud within 1Life and recommend

controls and actions to mitigate risks.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Fraud Management

Deliver fraud prevention reporting and analysis for a designated area, using

financial crime/fraud prevention systems to mitigate losses.

Apply techniques such as Fraud Detection, Syndicate identification, fingerprint

analysis, handwriting analysis and voice analysis to identify and prevent fraud

on a daily basis. Gather evidence during the prevention and detection of fraud

internally and externally.

Conduct interviews with all parties involved during fraud investigations. Present

evidence to law enforcement agencies in securing a conviction. Explore issues

or needs, establishing potential causes and barriers as well as related issues.

Investigate questions relating to existing programs, processes and procedures.

Fraud Analysis

Conduct research using primary data sources and select information needed for

the analysis of key themes and trends.

Identify and verify the validity of relevant documentation during investigations in

the prevention and detection of fraud.

Develop innovative solutions by integrating and analyzing complex and diverse

information sources. Interpret data and identify possible answers. Involves

navigating a wide variety of processes, procedures and precedents. Research

and develop new techniques to identify and prevent fraud.

Stakeholder Engagement

Responsibilities could include supporting internal and external stakeholders and

manage internal and external relationships. Liaise with role players in law

enforcement and intelligence agencies and assist with preparing cases for

prosecution.

Recommendations

Recommend changes to policies, processes, standards and practices that would

improve operational support.

Write and compile reports for various stakeholders containing recommendations

for decision makers in the business. Identify system and internal control

weaknesses and recommend counter measures.

Ensure that there is a focus on cost saving strategy implementation by

implementing policy and claims decisions, savings and fraud.

Insights and Reporting

Prepare and coordinate the completion of various information and analytics

reports.

Prepare complex documents using a variety of computer applications such as

Microsoft Office. Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for special

reports.

Operational Compliance

Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's

policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct,

and ensure own work adheres to required standards.

Identify, within the team, patterns of non-compliance with the organization's

policies and procedures, and with relevant regulatory codes and codes of

conduct, taking appropriate action to report and resolve these and escalating

issues as appropriate.

Organizational Capability Building

Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's

individual development needs. Plan and implement actions to build their

capabilities. Provide training or coaching to others throughout the organization in

own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill

personal potential.

Liaise with team members and provide training to new team members and other

departments within the organisation on fraud detection and prevention

techniques.

Personal Capability Building

Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development

planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or

maintain external professional accreditation where relevant to improve

performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of

technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing

education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

EDUCATION

• Grade 12/SAQA Accredited Equivalent (Essential)
• Bcom, LLB, BA Criminology or relevant qualification (Essential)
• Specialised training/certifications (Advantageous)
• CFE accreditation (Advantageous)

EXPERIENCE

• 3 or more years relevant Forensic/ Financial/ Auditing experience (Essential)
• Experience in the financial insurance industry (Advantageous)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

*SAQA Accredited Equivalent - it is the onus of the applicant to provide 1Life and its subsidiaries with certified evidence that their qualification(s) meet the equivalent NQF level required for this role at time of application. *Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) competency requirements: FAIS recognised qualifications / Regulatory Examinations / Class of Business Certification and / or CPD according to your DOFA (where applicable). As a registered Financial Service Provider, we are mandated to ensure that all our representatives are and remain fit and proper at all times. By applying for this role, you consent to having your relevant qualification and or accreditation or confirm that you are working towards meeting the competency requirements. You further consent to the relevant information being verified.

Job title/position: Forensic Supervisor
Number of positions:
1

Function and Business Unit: Advisory, GRC: Forensic
Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

• The individual will be part of Forensic Services of KPMG in South Africa and will be responsible for executing on specific engagements in respect of Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) and Cyber Investigations.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute on cyber investigation and DFIR engagements as per the applicable methodologies.
• Support the FTech leadership team in building pipeline and lead business development activities for DFIR service-line.
• As a team member expected to provide high quality deliverables and support in the project administration and management of the project.

Skills
Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Experience in responding to cyber security incidents and investigation of cyber breaches including triage, containment, eradication and broader coordination for the incidents.
• Knowledge of networks, operating systems (Linux and/or MacOS), databases, static and dynamic malware analysis/reverse engineering; digital forensics and cloud analytics.
• Working knowledge of IT, networking and cloud environment and be able to extract necessary logs and perform triage based on the nature of the incident.
• Proficiency in identifying the systems and logs to be analysed considering the nature of the breach.
• Ability to collaborate, learn and work with cross functional teams.
• Proficiency in documentation, report writing and documentation.
• Support on proposals and risk management processes.

Personal Attributes

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Team player.
• Ability to adapt, multi-task and work on multiple engagements simultaneously.
• Ability to work under pressure while still delivering high quality work.
• Ability to work under pressure and keep track of the big picture while performing in-depth analysis.
• Social skills, willingness and experience in being a team player and dealing with people from a various backgrounds and areas across the company, but also possess the ability to work independently.

Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience):
A minimum of 5 years of experience in related fields such as Cyber Forensics, Information Security and Incident Response.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited tertiary institution.
• Additional cyber forensic and incident responder certifications such as SANS, CHFI are desired,

Introduction

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables businesses and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations. We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilising new platforms Momentum Metropolitan provides practical financial solutions for people, communities, and businesses.

Disclaimer

As an applicant, please verify the legitimacy of this job advert on our company career page.

Role Purpose

The role incumbent will perform complex desktop investigations into allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse within the medical aid industry. The successful candidate will be required to testify and give evidence in court and various regulatory disciplinary proceedings based on the case reports prepared by the candidate. Must be willing to travel on behalf of the office when required.

Requirements

• Matric certificate

• Degree in Forensics, Compliance, Accounting, Investigations and Forensic Accounting, Commerce, Auditing or Forensic Auditing

• At least 3 years of forensic or investigative experience (commercial and/or desktop)

• Forensic Investigations

• Data interpretation

• Report writing

• Medical Industry knowledge - advantageous

Duties & Responsibilities

Internal Process

• Performing (desktop) investigations into allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse using outputs of large data sets from MS Excel and other applications.

• Conducting investigative interviews with scheme members, healthcare service providers, members, and other third parties to validate findings.

• Interpreting collected data and compiling comprehensive case reports using Ms Word.

• Reporting cases to the relevant Regulatory Bodies or to SAPS.

• Testify in criminal proceedings against service providers or members being prosecuted by the scheme.

• Testify and give evidence in civil; regulatory; society etc. hearings against service providers.

• Preparing; indexing and paginating investigation packs to be assigned to legal; the Filed Investigators or Regulatory bodies.

Client

• Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal and external stakeholders.

• Perform duties within defined turnaround times Deliver on service level agreements applicable to clients and internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure that client expectations are managed.

• Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.

• Continuously monitor your case investigation turnaround times and the quality of your written reporting.

• Drive client service delivery goal achievement in line with predefined standards in order to ensure that clients receive expected service levels at the expected standard.

• Provide management with relevant information to assist with managing client query processes.

People

• Continuously develop own expertise in terms of industry and forensic investigations.

• Participate and contribute to a culture of work-centric thinking, productivity, service delivery and quality management.

• Take ownership for driving your own career development.

Finance

• Contribute to the development of area specific budgets to minimise expenditure, in alignment with operational plans when requested.

• Escalate unresolved policy and governance compliance issues via appropriate channels for investigation and resolution purposes.

Competencies

• An ability to analyse and interpret large amounts of complex data in Excel

• Strong time management skills

• Proven and exceptional organising and coordinating skills