Head, Business Partner (COO Office )

AFFIN Group WP. Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Job Purpose

This role is responsible to manage processes and controls established for the purposes of First Line of Defence to achieve and sustain BU’s risk-based compliance with applicable laws and operational and regulatory requirements and to assist BU to ensure that compliance responsibilities owned by them are met.

Responsibilities

• Act as an advisor to provide value added advisory for products, business innovation & significance for COO Office
• Operational Management
• IB Operations
• Securities Operations
• Credit Management
• Strategic Program Management
• Strategic Business Partner & Governance
• Create a conducive and facilitative business environment
• Advocating for business-enabling risk management policies (eg credit-related policies such as single customer exposure limit, connected party transactions, sustainable financing, etc)
• Advocating for facilitative compliance and regulatory related policies (eg anti-money laundering, Chinese Walls, Personal Data Protection Act, Competition Act, etc)
• Ideas and feedback generation to business lines for industry and national-level consultations
• Create and facilitate prudent business operations environment
• Advise, propose and assist in the establishment of internal control mechanisms for adequate & effective compliance and risk management for operation activities to contain and manage risk associated with new developments to business activities, products, and processes due to regulatory updates or internal process change.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders on standardization / streamlining of onboarding process and channels and digitalization efforts
• Participate in working groups in relation to data governance and regulatory reporting
• Participate and feedback on initiatives for standardization of data dictionary and taxonomy on products, data subjects
• Participate and feedback on initiatives for formulation and maintenance of Master CIF data standards
• Participate as a member and / or permanent invitee in management committees and working groups such as :
• Tender Evaluation Committee (Chairman).
• Compliance and Risk Oversight Committee (permanent invitee)
• Business Continuity Management Steering Committee (member)
• Business Continuity Management Working Group (member)
• Project Steering Committee (permanent invitee)
• Data Governance Working Group (permanent invitee)
• Regulatory Reporting Working Group (permanent invitee)
• CCRIS Working Group (member)
• Complaint Officer for Investment Banking Division
• Perform other functions :
• Perform duties as system owner and maintenance of Customer Relationship Management system.
• Facilitate comprehensive awareness of operational risk among all staff in the respective division.
• Identify, assess, and report operational risk exposures by engaging in operational risk activities.
• Ensure strict adherence to the internal and external timelines.
• Conduct comprehensive ad-hoc assessments.
• Ensure all staff within the respective division are aware on the applicable regulatory / AML / CFT compliance issuance.
• Identify and mitigate compliance risk within the division that may tantamount to non-compliance.
• Assist in the execution of the Group Compliance initiatives applicable to the division.

Qualifications

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