Job Description

An exciting Head of Compliance & Risk position for a leading & fast growing technology company.

As this role is essential to the organization, it is vital candidate comes with a track record of delivery and proven experience. Among the many responsibilities are listed below:

• Ensure effective implementation of compliance programme within the company.
• Oversee assurance exercise and reviews or audits periodically to ensure that compliance procedures are followed.
• Create awareness, educate and train employees on regulatory requirements to avoid regulatory non-compliance and severe penalties.
• Evaluate business activities related to e-money business operations, to identify and evaluate potential compliance risk and other operational risks.
• Ensure effective enterprise risk management that includes business continuity, crisis management and corporate risk planning.
• Establish effective plans to manage and mitigate crisis or compliance violation.
• Ensure effective implementation of fraud management procedures to combat internal and external fraudulent activities.
• Prepare regulatory reports to management and regulators.
• Discuss arising compliance issues with Management or employees.
• Ensure and verify that all regulatory policies and procedures have been documented and implemented via assurance exercise.
• Become liaison officer for communication with regulators and law enforcement agencies.
• Utilize data and technology, with application of latest regulatory technology solutions to look at compliance process improvement, automation of fraud monitoring parameters using machine learning tools and AI.

Market Leader|Career Progression

The ideal Head of Compliance & Risk position will be confident in leading from the front and be responsible for the growth of the company and must posses the below requirements;

• Must possess at least a Bachelor's Degree, Post Graduate Diploma, Professional Degree,
• Finance/Accountancy/Banking, Business Studies/Administration/Management or equivalent.
• Professional certification shall be an added advantage.
• At least 10 years working experiences in Financial Institutions.
• Strong understanding in regulatory matters including Acts and Guidelines.
• Experience in engaging with regulators (e.g. Bank Negara, Security Commissions etc) and maintain good rapport. Past experience working in BNM to develop financial policy documents, setup of digital sandbox for fintech is an added bonus.
• Diligent and attentive to details in delivering high quality of output.
• Able to recommend pragmatic approach for problem solving.
• Possess strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate, articulate and negotiate with various stakeholders.
• Good teamwork and ability to manage and motivate the team members in highly challenging working environment
• Past experience in utilizing regulatory technology solutions to automate compliance process and fraud monitoring.
• Past experience in data analytics domain, able to apply critical thinking to generate insights from data and trends to identify patterns and able to work with powerpoint, excel and/or spreadsheet models with ability to create data visualization in charts, tables and graphs for compliance discussion with stakeholders.

Our client is a leading tech company. Moving forward as a vibrant organization, they believe in hiring the best talent to produce the best results. They are currently looking for a Head of Compliance & Risk position to partner in bringing their business to a higher level. This is an amazing opportunity to join this organization with strong development and progression in a exciting role.

Being part of a leading company, you will be entitled to:

• Joining a Market Leader.
• A career progression.
• Being in a Key Management role within the business.