GF CSIS Senior Investigation Manager Singapore

Salary: Competitive

Location: Singapore

Job Type: Permanent, Full time

Company: Citibank NA

Updated on: 31 May 16

Position Description:

The Senior Investigation Manager - Singapore has the responsibility and is directly accountable for CSIS Investigations operations for Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. The Senior Investigations Manager Singapore works with a team of country managers and investigators ensuring that the company interests are protected and in compliance with regional statutory, regulatory and business regulations through thorough investigations and management oversight.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Investigation Manager - Singapore provides leadership, expertise, and guidance relative to the company processes and risks, projects, issues and initiatives regarding investigations throughout the North ASPAC region to a diverse and geographical team of investigators. These responsibilities include:

• Ensure that allegations of fraud and misconduct, Code of Conduct and ethics are properly investigated and managed in a professional and consistent manner
• Ensure an efficient and responsive investigative team that can operate throughout the North ASPAC region
• Oversee and manage complex/high level investigations within North ASPAC
• Ensure compliance with all Statutory and Corporate policies in relation to external and internal investigations
• Assesses fraud and related risks and work with country in-business partners, such a Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Human Resources, Technology and Legal to implement appropriate controls and measures to protect company staff, assets, business operations, and intellectual property
• Develop and maintain working relationships with business management officials in North ASPAC, such as HR, CBMs, Legal, FinCon and others key stakeholders
• Data quality review on a regular basis against corporate Standards and a Balanced Scorecard
• Ensure investigations data quality in the case management system, through regular analysis and review
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with law enforcement and intelligence agencies, Sister Banks network, and industry professional associations as appropriate
• Ensure timely investigation and closing of cases through case aging analysis reviews
• Attend various in-country business meetings as appropriate to review and discuss investigation issues and key metrics
• Implement investigations related Policies, Standards and Procedures
• Ensures investigations staff are appropriately trained and informed on the most recent fraud schemes, trends and related investigation techniques and intelligence
• Work closely with the CSIS regional Fraud Risk Manager in identifying fraud risks and trends
• Conduct timely required performance and rating reviews with assigned staff and enter results in the talent management system

Qualifications

Education and Experience: 

• University degree, along with a minimum of 10 years experience as an investigative professional, which included managing an investigation team or unit involving financial related frauds/crimes
• Experience of 10+ years in Law Enforcement, which included managing an investigation team or unit involving financial related frauds/crimes or 10 years in management position in financial services industry with responsibility over investigations related activities

Qualifications:

• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to formulate and articulate investigation strategies and solutions to all levels of management in a context that aligns with the corporate culture of the organization
• Effective at developing internal and external alliances. Experience as a liaison with local government and law enforcement/information sources and private industrial security
• Understanding of investigative skills i.e., interviewing, report writing, evidence gathering, fact finding and analysis, delivering briefings and giving/presenting evidence at civil, criminal, and/or disciplinary proceedings.
• Excellent working knowledge of investigations procedures, with an understanding and working knowledge of basis computer skills to include Windows-based software applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Previous regional experience preferred
• Regional language skills are advantageous
• Experience in conducting and assessment of complex fraud and related allegations and recommendation of approach
• Ability to brief senior management and provide concise and professional advice
• Investigation experience with large global or multinational organization is desirable
• Knowledge of relevant and criminal laws concepts and procedures is desirable
• Knowledge of financial services products and services, controls and compliance is desirable
•       Experienced in preparing a brief of evidence for civil or criminal action desirable 

Other Skills:

• Exemplary and unquestionable personal integrity and moral compass
• Excellent active listening skills
• Ability to manage/delegate and coach/mentor
• Analytical skills, with significant attention to detail
• Strong strategic and political awareness
• Ability to work with others at all levels within the organization
• Ability to manage conflicts and conduct difficult discussions if required
• Self-confidence to take a firm stand and energetic persistence if necessary
• Strong work ethics and created ability to achieve identified goals
• Strong communication and presentation skills
•     Demonstrated ability to work with senior management and external parties, as required 

• Primary Location: Singapore,Singapore,Singapore
• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Job Function: Security
• Travel Time: No
• Job ID: 16028496

What to invest in Singapore: 5 Worst Types of Financial Advice

You know the problem with financial advice? It’s the people who dispense it: Insurance salesmen, bankers, property agents…most people in position to give good advice also have no motive to do so. They’ve all got an angle of some sort. And short of strapping them in a chair and going at them with a golf club (pick the bankers, it legally counts as pest control) you can seldom get reliable advice. Instead you get dangerous gibberish, like:

1. The Rental Income Will Pay For The Property

This argument suggests property is practically free. You take a home loan,  then rent out the house. The rental income will then cover part (or even all) of the repayments.

Look, if it were that simple, I’d be getting plastered in an Amsterdam nightclub right now, instead of writing this for a living. But I know better.

This advice assumes rental income is consistent. It’s not. Tenants pay late, dispute contract terms, and don’t renew leases. Ask any landlord: Getting tenants to behave is like training cats to execute parade drills. Then there’s the global market: If MNCs implement cutbacks (like now, thanks to the Euro crisis), expatriate tenants start heading home.

It’s true that property is the best investment. But the problem with this advice is presumption: Never assume the rental income will cover the home loan. Always be prepared to upkeep an empty apartment for a few months.

And if you can’t afford loan repayments without rental income, you can’t afford the property.

2. Forex Trading Will Make You Millions

Question: How does an amateur trader make a million dollars on Forex?

Answer: Start with two million.

95% of Forex trading accounts close in the first year. Most dabblers break even; a pitiful few lose everything. Either way, it’s a waste of time and money.

That’s because Forex seldom rewards day traders or dabblers. Don’t get me wrong, it is a viable path to wealth. It’s just not as easy as brokers pretend. Take a look at the typical successful Forex investor:

They start with massive capital (sometimes in the millions), can afford to lose significant sums, and almost always have a career in finance. Moving money around is their full time job. Do you seriously think reading your Dummies Guide to Forex puts you on the same level? That’s like trying to join a PGA tour because Tiger Woods once gave you a golf tip.

In short: If you are the sort of person who could make millions on Forex, you wouldn’t be listening to the broker. The broker would be listening to you.

3. Budget First

Most people only start budgeting once they feel “squeezed”. A common cause is a major purchase (e.g. a car or house). Then these people panic, decide to budget, and find they can contain their expenditures like a haemophiliac can control blood loss.

A better idea is to try to grow your income first, and budget if that fails. For example, say you’re going to buy a car or a house. On your current income, you’ll live about as comfortably as a a pomfret in a desert. Instead of starting a spreadsheet to dictate your purchases for the next five years, focus on finding ways to make more money.

Ask for a raise, find some side-income, change your job. Exhaust every possible avenue of growing your income, before resorting to budgeting. Remember: Earning capacity first, and budgeting second. It should be common sense.

4. Buy Big Company Shares When They Drop

Sometimes this comes from amateur investors. Other times, it comes from market manipulators who are looking to offload garbage.

The idea is that big business is cyclical; when a big company’s shares decline in value, it’s just a matter of time before they go back up again. Because it’s a major corporate establishment, and “it’ll recover for sure”. So buy the shares now, while they’re cheap.

People who cite this advice will invariably mention Apple, and how low Apple shares used to be. Well here’s a counter-example: Kodak. Sometimes, shares go down and stay down. Sometimes, a company’s product is absolutely, irrevocably doomed. There will be no recovery, and the money you put into it is just lost.

“Always buy when low” is a bad assumption all around. If you don’t understand a company, don’t bet on its recovery. Even if it does recover, it could take years for the share value to rise again.

5. You Are Young, You Can Afford To Take More Risks

And being young, you’re also more likely to survive bear attacks. Does that make you more inclined to strap raw steaks to your ass and climb into a polar bear’s cage?

Look, it’s true being younger has advantages. You can take longer loans, you have more working years, and you can live off Maggi Mee for months. But that’s not an accurate form of risk assessment. The amount of money you can lose is based on your income and savings, not on your age (or lack thereof).

In fact, this advice is so bad, sometimes its opposite is true: If you’re a young student with just $5000 in the bank, you can afford to lose less than a 50 year old businessman with accumulated assets. And that’s how you should calculate acceptable risks: Based on the money and assets you have.