Corporate Governance Manager

Smart Globe Holdings Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Globe Holdings Limited is seeking a Corporate Governance Manager to strengthen governance framework, internal controls, risk management, and ethical culture. The role collaborates with senior leadership to ensure policies and decision-making align with regulatory expectations.

Key responsibilities include designing governance, controls, risk reporting, training, and stakeholder alignment across Legal, Compliance, Finance, HR, and IT to support sustainable value creation.

Qualifications

• Excellent logical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent English and Chinese drafting and communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with directors, senior executives, external advisers, and cross-functional teams.
• High level of integrity, discretion, accuracy, and attention to details.

Responsibilities

• Develop, review, and maintain the organization’s corporate governance framework, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Ensure governance policies remain aligned with applicable laws, regulatory expectations, industry standards, and organizational strategy.
• Identify gaps in governance arrangements and recommend practical improvements to structures, processes, and accountability.
• Design, implement, and monitor internal control frameworks across key business processes.
• Work with process owners to document controls, define control ownership, and establish appropriate testing and evidence requirements.
• Support management in maintaining appropriate segregation of duties, approval authorities, record-keeping, and financial and operational controls.
• Establish the enterprise risk management framework, including risk audit, risk taxonomy, risk registers, and reporting requirements.
• Facilitate risk identification, assessment, treatment, monitoring, and escalation across business functions.
• Consolidate key risk information into clear management reporting, highlighting emerging risks, control gaps, mitigation plans, and overdue actions.
• Support scenario analysis and risk-informed decision-making for strategic initiatives, operational changes, and major projects.
• Track audit findings, management actions, and remediation progress; analyze recurring findings and root causes to drive sustainable control improvements.

Skills

Logical thinking

Critical thinking

English & Chinese writing

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Integrity & discretion

Education

Bachelor & Master’s degree

Job description

The Corporate Governance Manager is responsible for strengthening the organization’s governance framework, internal control environment, risk management practices, and ethical culture. The role partners with senior leadership and business stakeholders to ensure policies, controls, and decision-making processes support regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Governance and Policy Design

• Develop, review, and maintain the organization’s corporate governance framework, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Ensure governance policies remain aligned with applicable laws, regulatory expectations, industry standards, and organizational strategy.
• Identify gaps in governance arrangements and recommend practical improvements to structures, processes, and accountability.

Internal Controls

• Design, implement, and monitor internal control frameworks across key business processes.
• Work with process owners to document controls, define control ownership, and establish appropriate testing and evidence requirements.
• Support management in maintaining appropriate segregation of duties, approval authorities, record-keeping, and financial and operational controls.
• Establish the enterprise risk management framework, including risk audit, risk taxonomy, risk registers, and reporting requirements.
• Facilitate risk identification, assessment, treatment, monitoring, and escalation across business functions.
• Consolidate key risk information into clear management reporting, highlighting emerging risks, control gaps, mitigation plans, and overdue actions.
• Support scenario analysis and risk-informed decision-making for strategic initiatives, operational changes, and major projects.
• Track audit findings, management actions, and remediation progress; analyze recurring findings and root causes to drive sustainable control improvements.

Ethics, Conduct, and Culture

• Promote a strong culture of integrity, accountability, transparency, and responsible decision-making across the organization.
• Maintain and enhance policies and programmes relating to the code of conduct, conflicts of interest, whistleblowing, anti-bribery and corruption, and other ethical business practices.
• Design and deliver governance, risk, control, and ethics training for employees, managers, and relevant stakeholders.
• Develop targeted communications and awareness initiatives that embed governance expectations into everyday business practices.

Stakeholder Alignment

• Partner with senior management, business leaders, Legal, Compliance, Finance, HR, Internal Audit, IT, and operational teams to align governance and risk priorities.
• Act as a trusted adviser to process owners and leaders, translating governance requirements into practical, commercially workable solutions.
• Facilitate cross-functional governance and risk forums, ensuring clear decisions, ownership, action tracking, and escalation.
• Support communication with external auditors, regulators, professional advisers, and other relevant stakeholders when required.

Qualifications and Experience

• Excellent logical and critical thinking skills
• Excellent English and Chinese drafting and communication skills
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with directors, senior executives, external advisers, and cross-functional teams.
• High level of integrity, discretion, accuracy, and attention to details.
• Bachelor & Master’s degree in any discipline.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in corporate governance, internal audit, risk management, compliance, internal controls, or related advisory roles.
• Experience working in a regulated, listed, multinational, or complex corporate environment is preferred.
• Able to work independently, manage competing priorities, and perform effectively under tight reporting and transaction deadlines.