Associate Director, OTCR, ICS & Tech Risk Assurance

Standard Chartered Bank; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking an Associate Director for OTCR, ICS & Tech Risk Assurance in Kuala Lumpur. The role involves managing operational risks and engaging with senior stakeholders, requiring a degree, relevant industry qualifications, and considerable experience in risk management. Benefits include a competitive salary and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Medical and life insurance

Flexible working options

Time-off including annual leave and sabbatical

Qualifications

• Degree level education or equivalent.
• Industry related qualification in Operational Risk Management or Information & Cyber Security.
• Personal authority based on established trusted relationships.

Responsibilities

• Define and operationalise the OTCR ICS & Tech Risk Assurance team.
• Lead/executing risk-based independent reviews of control efficacy.
• Communicate complex risks to management and regulators.

Skills

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Technical knowledge

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Degree level education or equivalent

Tools

CISSP

CISM(P)

CRISC

CISA

IIA

CIA

CRMA

Job description

Associate Director, OTCR, ICS & Tech Risk Assurance

The Operational, Technology and Cyber Risk (OTCR) organisation is instrumental in protecting and ensuring the resilience of Standard Chartered Bank’s operations, data, and IT systems by managing operational, technology and cyber risk across the enterprise.

The Associate Director, OTCR, ICS & Tech Risk Assurance is a permanent role that requires good business acumen and a detailed knowledge of risk assessment, audit execution and control testing. The successful candidate will have key skills in critical thinking, problem solving, industry specific technical and regulatory knowledge, and stakeholder management, and be able to respond in a flexible and collaborative manner to evolving business, regulatory and threat demands.

This is a senior level role, and the individual will be required to engage with senior stakeholders across the business, technology, governance, CISO and other risk functions to act as an independent trusted advisor, providing key insights from testing to enable effective risk decisions making

The successful candidate will be able to support the Head of Assurance, a high performing team to identify and focus reviews on the areas of highest Technology and Cyber Risk risks, providing insights which enable uplift of the OTCR risk posture.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Assurance to define, develop and operationalise the OTCR ICS & Tech Risk Assurance team to align with the risk management strategy and wider enterprise risk management strategy for the Bank Enterprise Risk Management Framework (“ERMF”).
• Support the Head of Assurance to define and develop structured Assurance capabilities and to lead/ execute risk-based independent reviews of control efficacy by assessing the design and operating effectiveness of key controls.
• Provide the management and validation of findings identified in Assurance ICS & Tech risk reviews.
• Work with the wider OTCR Assurance & Testing team to support and deliver a risk-based plan to focus testing on areas of highest risk.
• Communicate complex risks, issues and testing insights precisely and effectively to management and regulators as required.

Requirements

• Degree level education or equivalent
• Industry related qualification in Operational Risk Management or Information & Cyber Security, such as CISSP, CISM(P), and/or CRISC.
• Industry related qualification in Assurance/Audit such as CISA, IIA, CIA and/or CRMA
• Personal authority based on established trusted relationships and ability to provide advice and functional direction which is expected at senior levels of the Group and respected by peers

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.