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The role converts digital evidence into clear, reliable and legally defensible intelligence for investigations, management decisions, litigation and regulatory engagement.\nValue to the Group: Timely, accurate and well-governed analytics that strengthen fraud detection, accelerate investigations, quantify exposure, support recovery and improve preventive controls across the Group.\nKey Responsibilities:\n1. Data Acquisition, Extraction & Preservation\nAcquire data securely from enterprise systems, databases, cloud platforms and email environments in accordance with legal authority, privacy requirements and evidentiary standards.\nApply appropriate forensic extraction methods, maintain chain of custody, validate completeness and accuracy, and document data-quality limitations.\nPrepare structured and unstructured datasets through indexing, deduplication, normalization and other appropriate processing techniques.\n2. 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Stakeholder Engagement & Continuous Improvement\nPartner with investigators, business owners, IT, Legal and Risk & Compliance on data definitions, remediation actions and delivery timelines.\nRecommend control and process improvements arising from investigations and monitoring.\nMaintain confidentiality, access controls, data-protection compliance and secure evidence handling.\nPerform other duties assigned from time to time.\nJob Purpose:\nThe Forensic Data Analyst collects, preserves and analyses complex transactional, operational and digital data to detect fraud, financial crime, regulatory non-compliance and control weaknesses. 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Stakeholder Engagement & Continuous Improvement\nPartner with investigators, business owners, IT, Legal and Risk & Compliance on data definitions, remediation actions and delivery timelines.\nRecommend control and process improvements arising from investigations and monitoring.\nMaintain confidentiality, access controls, data-protection compliance and secure evidence handling.\nPerform other duties assigned from time to time.\nKnowledge, Experience & Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Management, Economics, Actuarial Science or another relevant quantitative field.\nFour to six years’ relevant experience in data analytics, forensic analytics, fraud monitoring or financial-crime investigation; financial-services, insurance or banking experience is preferred.\nCertification in data analytics or forensic technology tools is required; CFE, CPA(K), CFA, CISSP or a relevant postgraduate qualification is an advantage.\nDemonstrated experience in fraud-rule design, anomaly detection, evidence handling and data-protection requirements.\nTechnical / Functional Competencies:\nAdvanced SQL and working proficiency in Python or R.\nForensic analytics, anomaly detection, statistical testing and link analysis.\nFraud-monitoring rule design, testing, tuning and governance.\nPower BI, Tableau, Qlik Sense or equivalent visualisation tools.\nCaseWare IDEA, Alteryx, Cellebrite or equivalent forensic tools.\nRelational databases, ETL processes and ERP data.\nDigital-evidence preservation, chain of custody, metadata and log analysis.\nFraud typologies, relevant legislation and evidence-based report writing.\nKnowledge, Experience & Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Management, Economics, Actuarial Science or another relevant quantitative field.\nFour to six years’ relevant experience in data analytics, forensic analytics, fraud monitoring or financial-crime investigation; 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