Asia Business Technology Risk Management Professional

The Asia Business Technology Risk team ensures technology risks are effectively identified, assessed, controlled, managed and reported. They provide risk management awareness through effective communication, consultation and service. This opportunity will provide the individual with a chance to liaise with senior members of the firm to lead top initiatives and engage with regulatory bodies and teams across multiple markets in the Asia region, with a focus on the China market.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Contribute advice on related to local market regulations, Firm Policy & procedures, System dependencies, and other best practices
• Build strong relationships with Technology, Business and Compliance stakeholders across the region to drive continuous improvement on Technology Risk/Project governance processes
• Drive region specific Technology Risk change and firm-wide remediation programs
• Ensure that Firm/Entity Specific Technology Risk standards are defined, documented and implemented
• Promote risk education and awareness and provide senior management summaries as appropriate
• Participate in the Risk related forums to help promote / champion the operational risk agenda across the organisation and help enhance the overall risk culture.
• Support standardisation in risk management processes and procedures, and ensure adherence to company tools and applications

Skills Required

• Knowledge of the financial services industry; preferably in an investment bank with sales and trading, finance, operations, technology or internal audit background.
• Strong Project Management and/or PMO background
• Technology Professional with 8+ years of experience
• Knowledge of Software development lifecycle and change management either through technology project management or developer/quality assurance experience.
• Strong analytic and problem solving/process improvement skills; ability to learn quickly and solve poorly defined problems
• Excellent verbal and written skill with ability to create high quality written products that are comprehensive, accurate, and tailored to the audience
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization with excellent influencing and negotiation skills, strong organizational skills and an ability to manage multiple demands and changing priorities.
• Ability to read, write, and speak Chinese language (Mandarin).

Skills Desired

• Industry certifications such as CISA, CISSP, CISM, CRISC
• Working experience of risk assessment methodologies, internal controls and industry technology risk management frameworks such as ITIL, CobiT, and ISO 27001
• Knowledge and experience of the regulatory environments within Asia.
• Understanding of operational risk and associated regulations (e.g., Basel, SOX, CBIRC IT Risk Management Guideline, China Cyber Security Law, HK SFC Code of Conduct, MAS TRMG), and the associated application to a technology division within Financial Services.
• Hands-on technical background (eg. system developer, integrator, QA and /or support)