Policy Owner Service, Principal

AIA Company Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

AIA Company Limited is seeking a seasoned governance and risk leader to manage the Policy Owner Service department, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and driving risk management across the organization.

The role involves leading a team, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, and delivering projects to embed risk and compliance into day-to-day insurance operations in a dynamic market.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline.
• Minimum 10 years in insurance operations with supervisory experience.
• Strong business knowledge of insurance operations.
• Experience in process review and managing similar job natures.
• Experience in project management or business analysis is an advantage.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent leadership and people management skills.
• Result-oriented, aggressive, and innovative.
• Proactive in problem solving in a fast-moving industry.
• Demonstrated sophisticated analytic capacity and business thinking.

Responsibilities

• Maintain governance and risk oversight for the department and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Lead risk management & internal audit activities including annual/ad-hoc audits and regulatory reporting.
• Develop and implement plans to revise or add controls to address deficiencies and ensure POS compliance.
• Coordinate with other teams and departments to embed risk and compliance in daily operations of POS.
• Manage initiatives and projects to align with company strategies on compliance or regulatory aspects.
• Liaise with external parties to deliver projects and ensure solid deliverables.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Communication

Problem solving

Analytics

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Build a healthier and more sustainable future for everyone.

At AIA, your skills, perspective and ideas can contribute to our Purpose of helping millions of people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. Across our diverse markets, you will take on meaningful challenges, collaborate with talented colleagues and help turn ideas into positive outcomes for our customers and communities.

Join us to shape what comes next, grow through new experiences and extend your impact across Asia.

About the Role

Manage the governance and risk team of the department and deliver projects to ensure Policy Service Department is operated in compliance with the company guidance and compliance/regulatory requirements.

Customer Centricity

This role contributes to the delivery of customer outcomes that are reliable, thoughtful, and create meaningful impact for customers and society. The role holder is expected to embed a customer first mindset in all decisions and actions by developing a clear understanding of customer needs, taking end to end ownership to resolve issues, and working collaboratively across teams to continuously enhance the customer journey—both directly and indirectly.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure Business Practice comply with Regulatory Requirements
• - Ensure the formulated Policy Owner Service guidelines can meet the regulatory requirements and be able to maintain tight control to minimize operational risks.
• - Discuss & negotiate with relevant parties (internal & external) to ensure we provide the best business solutions for our customers & distribution channels.
• - Lead the team to ensure the POS transactions are properly performed and adhere to all regulation’s requirements and company’s rules and guidelines.
• - Manage Risk Management & Compliance / Internal Audit in various activities including but not limited to annual / ad-hoc auditing activities, annual regulatory reporting.
• - Proactively look for areas within POS that may be in violation of the regulations and identify the root cause and then propose ways to improve it to ensure the team can operate smoothly.
• - Assess and ensure the controls in POS function are effective and up to date.
• - Coordinate within the department to ensure practice is consistent with required standards met.
• - Formulate & implement plans to revise existing controls or add new controls if deficiency is noted.
• - Support management reporting on control monitoring
• - Governance all the related SOP are updated and compliant with related processing rules.

Lead and Manage Initiatives and Projects

• - Lead and drive Policy Owner Service new initiatives and manage resources/priorities align with company strategies on compliance or regulatory aspect
• - Represent the department to deal with other teams on enabling and improving the system enhancement projects.
• - Liaise and coordinate with respective teams / departments to implement Risk Management & Compliance related initiatives or projects to embed risk & compliance requirements in day-to-day business operations of POS.

External Stakeholder Management

• - Liaise and co-ordinate with related parties or other service providers on projects/services with solid deliverables.

Other responsibilities

• - Perform other responsibilities and duties periodically assigned by supervisor to meet business requirements.

Requirements:

• - Bachelor’s Degree in any disciplines
• - Minimum 10 years in insurance operations with supervisory experience
• - Strong business knowledge of insurance operations
• - Expertise in process review and good experience in managing similar job natures
• - Experience in project management or business analysis is an advantage
• - Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• - Excellent leadership and people management skills
• - Result-oriented, aggressive, and innovative
• - Proactive in problem solving in a fast-moving industry
• - Demonstrated sophisticated analytic capacity and business thinking

Others:

• - You are required to obtain relevant license if your job involves in regulated activities.

Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

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