Job responsibilities

• Manage control-related activities, including risk event occurrences, and new business initiatives and provide control related due diligence to business units to foster a proactive risk and control culture that leverages proven evaluation strategies and sound change management protocols

• Partner effectively with colleagues across the firm, business, operations management, legal, compliance, risk, audit, regulators and technology control functions to drive consistent and rigorous operational risk practices and Control programs including: control committees, risk mitigation, key risk indicators, control design and performance evaluation

• Help establish control governance and reporting to identify meaningful metrics to inform on health of operational risk and control environment; escalate control deficiencies based on key reporting indicators; and manage control committees and forums.

• Demonstrate exceptional critical thinking, project management, analytical and communication skills (i.e. Communicate effectively across all levels)

• Lead and partner with the business, legal, risk, compliance and other control partners on various issues ranging from self-identified issues to global regulatory enforcement actions

• Lead in the root cause analysis of client-impacting errors and aid in the resolution both in correction and improvement of the control environment

• Partner with the business and other control partners across multiple time zones in an effort to create consistency in the control environment and underlying processes globally

• Support discussions with regulators, audit teams, compliance and risk ranging from one-off meetings to more formal presentations in Business Control Committees

• Work with a sense of urgency on emerging issues

• Aid in the utilization of the technology budget and inform key decisions on technology infrastructure and provide ongoing feedback and training to develop employees on risk concepts and the application to risk and control evaluation

• Lead by example, with exemplary personal and professional attributes. Inspire confidence in all levels of staff as well as key partners from other functional areas and across Lines of Business

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor’s degree or above

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in the financial industry; strong experience in internal control and the ability to apply it to actual business and processes

• Familiar with the fund industry, familiar with the operation mode of various business lines

• Hold AMAC qualification

• Fluent in both written and spoken English and Chinese required

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Business knowledge - ability to understand the business / knowledge of regulation surrounding business

• Communication/presentation - excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence business leaders in a meaningful and actionable manner

• Networking – exceptional interpersonal skills; exceptional collaboration and relationship building skills

• Work autonomously to affect change - flexible, adaptable to shifting priorities; manages competing priorities to achieve the most effective result and able to work in a fast-paced, results driven environment

• Controls, audit, quality assurance, risk management, or compliance experiences preferred