Enterprise Risk & Internal Audit Leader

Payment Network Malaysia; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Payment Network Malaysia seeks an experienced professional to own risk-based operations audits across ERM and the Risk Management function. You will assess governance, escalation, and accountability while challenging emerging and systemic risks to strengthen resilience.

Lead audit reviews, shape evidence-based reports, and validate remediation effectiveness, partnering with Management and Board to surface material risks and ensure sustainable risk management practices.

Qualifications

• Provide independent assurance that risk governance supports effective decisions and sustainable organisational resilience.
• Test whether accountabilities, oversight, escalation and independent challenge work as intended.
• Surface gaps in how strategic, emerging, systemic, ecosystem and third-party risks are understood and managed.
• Give Management and the Board clearer insight into material risks, trends and escalating exposures.
• Raise the quality of remediation by identifying root causes and validating that actions are sustainable.

Responsibilities

• Lead or independently execute risk-based operational audits across business processes, ERM and the Risk Management function.
• Assess governance and operating models for clear accountability, effective oversight, structured escalation and robust challenge.
• Evaluate horizon scanning, scenario analysis and RCSA across emerging, concentration, dependency and interdependency risks.
• Test KRIs, thresholds and risk treatment decisions, including acceptance, exemptions, mitigation, contingency and exit strategies.
• Shape concise audit reports and working papers supported by evidence, root-cause analysis, benchmarks and leading practices.
• Drive closure by validating whether agreed remediation addresses the underlying risk sustainably.

Job description

Payment Network Malaysia seeks an experienced professional to own risk-based operations audits across ERM and the Risk Management function. You will assess governance, escalation, and accountability while challenging emerging and systemic risks to strengthen resilience.

Lead audit reviews, shape evidence-based reports, and validate remediation effectiveness, partnering with Management and Board to surface material risks and ensure sustainable risk management practices.