SVP, Regulatory Compliance and Business Risk (China Based)

The role will be reporting to the regional head, supervising two junior team members.

Key Responsibilities

- Assist the team leader to ensure a robust control environment to manage regulatory and non-financial risks
- Partner with compliance to manage regulatory risks, ensuring effective controls to meet regulatory requirements
- Work closely with 1st line control functions to conduct the quality assurance, thematic review and control testing
- Ensure the control adherence to local Regulatory Operational risk framework
- Coordinate the control design and procedure implementation for New Products
- Manage operational risk topics with the respective Business Units and Support functions, including Ops risk event reporting, Key Risk Indicator (KRI) review and process gap remediation
- Coordinate with other risk teams on the CBIRC Operational Risk Framework review and conduct Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) exercise
- Third party risk management: maintain up-to-date information on vendors, service inventory, and implement the necessary controls
- Contact point for governance and audit teams

Job Requirements

- University degree / qualifications
- 10 years of relevant experience in the Banking industry, preferable Compliance functions or Operations functions
- Familiar with the Chinese regulations

- Ability to identify problems and seek practical solutions
- Team player with a “can-do” attitude and leadership attributes
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and Chinese