Corporate Governance Manager

Leadingnation; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Leadingnation in Hong Kong seeks a Corporate Governance Manager to strengthen governance, controls, and risk practices across the organization. You will partner with senior leaders to ensure compliant policies and effective decision-making processes, fostering an ethical culture.

The role focuses on governance design, internal controls, enterprise risk management, ethics, and cross‑functional alignment with Legal, Compliance, Finance, and IT teams.

Qualifications

• Excellent logical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent English and Chinese drafting and communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills with cross-functional collaboration.
• High level of integrity, discretion, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Bachelor & Master’s degree in any discipline.
• Professional qualifications/memberships in relevant expertise.
• At least 5 years of relevant governance, audit, risk or compliance experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, review, and maintain the corporate governance framework, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Ensure governance policies align with laws, regulations, and strategy.
• Identify gaps and recommend improvements to governance structures and processes.
• Design, implement, and monitor internal control frameworks across key processes.
• Support risk management, control ownership, and testing evidence requirements.
• Track audit findings and remediation progress, driving continuous improvements.
• Promote a culture of integrity, transparency, and ethical decision‑making.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to align governance and risk priorities.

Skills

Logical thinking

Critical thinking

English drafting

Chinese drafting

Stakeholder management

Integrity

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor & Master’s degree

Job description

• Bachelor & Master’s degree in any discipline


• Excellent logical and critical thinking skills


• Ensure governance policies

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.

Enterprise Risk Management

• 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.


• Professional qualifications/memberships in relevant expertise.


• 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.