Main activities / tasks:

• Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Governance Management framework and system:

1. Utilize the Company’s Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Governance Management framework to conduct periodic risk and compliance assessment to drive real-time risk insights and intelligence to adequately manage the Company’s risks.
2. Execute risk and compliance assessments and recommendations to strengthen the control environment.
• Compliance and Governance systems:
1. Ensure regulatory requirements relating to and Major Payment Institution are understood.
2. Partner with relevant stakeholders to ensure adherence with compliance and governance systems and compliance with local regulatory compliance requirements.
3. Support execution of regulatory change management initiatives, including drafting and updating of key policies and guidelines.
4. Support in the enhancement of compliance and governance systems in identifying potential areas of operational risk and compliance vulnerability, developing and implementing solutions to resolve issues, and provide guidance for future avoidance of similar issues.
• Reporting:
1. Support in the preparation of internal management reporting, regulatory returns and regulatory incident reporting.
2. Escalate timely and actionable information to key stakeholders.
• Business Initiatives:
1. Provide guidance to business units relating to the development of controls for critical business processes to mitigate compliance/operational risks.
2. Serve as a credible business partner to executives and other key stakeholders.
3. Provide subject matter expertise to the business units in identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and managing risk and regulatory matters.
• Regulatory Engagement: Provide day-to-day management and support for all local regulatory interactions, examinations and ad-hoc requests.

Qualifications/ Education/Experience/Skills:

1. Bachelor’s degree in law, business administration, or relevant field.
2. A minimum of 5 years directly related experience in a legal or compliance role with a substantial knowledge of relevant rules and regulations and the day-to-day compliance affairs.
3. Strong knowledge of Singapore’s AML/CFT legislation, Payment and Digital Payment Token (“DPT”) regulations, Data Protection and other relevant regulations.
4. Familiar with MASNet, SONAR, and blockchain analytic, and KYC solutions and transaction monitoring solutions and similar systems.
5. Demonstrate ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including strengths in influencing, conflict management, and negotiation.
6. Ability to take ownership of outcomes and the ability to work with business unit teams to drive performance.
7. Ability to operate with strong integrity with the ability to handle projects of a sensitive and confidential nature.
8. Strong problem solving and operational process skills and attention to detail.
9. High energy and the desire to work in a growing and changing environment.
10. Effective written and communication skills.

Special requirement:

1. Strong computer knowledge; excellent MS Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint skills.