Head of Compliance Governance & Reporting

Swift; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Swift in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Compliance Governance & Reporting lead responsible for defining and improving compliance governance. This role works closely with Executive Management and leads a dedicated team to ensure effective compliance reporting for stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has 7-10 years of experience in compliance or governance, strong narrative skills, and a proven track record of engaging with senior leadership to enhance compliance processes and reporting quality.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years’ relevant experience in Compliance, Risk, or Governance within a regulated environment.
• Proven track record of engaging with Executive Management and Board-level audiences.
• Strong capability in creating accurate reporting and managing data.

Responsibilities

• Own the Compliance reporting cycle for stakeholders.
• Run the Compliance Committee ensuring effective focus.
• Lead and develop the Compliance Governance & Reporting team.

Skills

Engagement with Executive Management

Strong narrative translation

Data management and reporting

Stakeholder influence

Continuous improvement mindset

Job description

Role purpose

This role is accountable for defining, leading and continuously improving Compliance governance, management information and reporting across Swift, while supporting oversight and delivery tracking for key regulatory change initiatives.

Reporting directly to the Chief Compliance Officer, the role ensures that Compliance communicates a clear, coherent and decision-focused view of risks, issues and priorities to Executive Management, the Management Board and the Supervisory Board.

The role leads a small team and sets the standards, operating model and expectations for governance and reporting across Compliance—ensuring consistency, quality and impact.

Key Responsibilities

Executive & Board Reporting

• Own the end‑to‑end Compliance reporting cycle for all stakeholders, including the Chief Compliance Officer, Executive Management, the Management Board, Board Committees and the Supervisory Board.
• Own the end-to-end narrative to Executive Management and the Board, ensuring materials are clear, focused on decision-making and reflect a consistent message.
• Partner directly with the CCO and senior stakeholders across Legal, Compliance, Risk and the business to shape messaging, align priorities and avoid conflicting messages across forums.

Compliance Committee

• Run the Compliance Committee end‑to‑end (agenda, submissions, minutes/actions, follow‑up), keeping the forum focused and effective.
• Ensure leaders receive clear, relevant and timely information—prioritised to support oversight and decisions.
• Maintain strong governance discipline around escalation paths, decision records and action tracking—so nothing critical gets lost.
• Maintain the terms of reference for the Compliance Committee, including periodic reviews and updates.

Quality, Insight & Narrative

• Own the Compliance management information framework, including what is reported, why it matters and how it supports oversight and decision-making.
• Lead the collation and validation of data used to measure and monitor compliance, working with teams across the business to ensure reporting is timely, accurate and complete.
• Draw out key themes, emerging risks, issues and anomalies, applying judgement and challenge so that the right matters are escalated at the right time.
• Set high standards for data quality, reporting discipline and insight—ensuring reporting supports informed discussion, challenge and decision-making, not just information sharing.

Capability Maturity

• Define and embed strong ways of working, standards and expectations for Compliance governance and reporting.
• Continuously improve the Compliance Committee and reporting approach as the function matures and expectations evolve.
• Document and maintain governance and reporting processes, procedures, templates and playbooks—making it easy for teams to follow a consistent, high‑quality approach.
• Assess and help shape the tools, processes and data capabilities needed to support effective compliance monitoring and reporting.

Leadership

• Lead and develop the Compliance Governance & Reporting team, setting priorities, allocating resources and maintaining a high bar for quality and timeliness.
• Support governance, oversight and delivery tracking for key regulatory change initiatives, helping to establish proportionate PMO discipline where needed.
• Act as a senior partner to Compliance, Risk, Legal and business teams, influencing stakeholders to align on priorities, messaging and decisions.
• Be required to participate in, and at times lead, key initiatives and workstreams across the wider Compliance function—bringing structure, delivery discipline and strong stakeholder engagement.

Experience & Profile

• 7-10 years’ relevant experience in Compliance, Risk, or Governance within a regulated environment.
• Proven track record of engaging with Executive Management and Board-level audiences, including shaping and delivering key messages for senior governance forums.
• Strong experience translating complex topics into clear, decision-relevant narratives for senior stakeholders.
• Strong capability in creating accurate reporting and managing data in a disciplined and controlled way.
• Experience owning management information and reporting, including defining metrics, improving data quality and using insight to challenge and influence senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with data, reporting processes and analytical tools, with the judgement to spot inconsistencies, trends and areas requiring escalation.
• Experience supporting cross-functional regulatory or compliance change initiatives, with strong delivery discipline, tracking and stakeholder coordination.
• A builder’s mindset: you enjoy improving operating models, setting standards, and making governance/reporting work better for everyone.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and evolving expectations—able to bring order, priorities and pace.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and challenge at senior level with credibility and confidence.
• A passion for continuous improvement and a visible commitment to high‑quality delivery and impeccable attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including confident stakeholder management and presentation.
• Professional proficiency in English.