Head Third Party Risk, Governance and Projects(Malaysia,India)

Standard Chartered Bank; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Product Owner for Third Party Risk, Governance, and Projects in Kuala Lumpur. This role involves leading product ownership with a focus on customer journeys while collaborating with stakeholders and technical teams. The candidate will design interactive dashboards using tools like Power BI and Tableau, analyze third-party risk data, and support senior management in regulatory submissions. The position demands excellent leadership, critical thinking, and multi-tasking abilities within a high-performance culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in product ownership with a focus on customer experience.
• Ability to manage relationships with global and regional teams.
• Experience utilizing data visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product owner responsibilities, focusing on customer journeys.
• Develop and enhance reports for third-party and cloud risk.
• Support governance forums and regulatory reviews.

Skills

Leadership skills

Critical thinking

Data analysis

Communication skills

Multi-tasking

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Head: Third Party Risk, Governance and Projects (Malaysia, India)

A Product Owner leading product ownership with a customer journey and experience mindset, acting as an intermediary between business stakeholders and the engineering team to produce best-in-class management reporting on third party risk.

Product Owner Responsibilities

• Provide product owner leadership with a customer journey and experience in mind.
• Act as an intermediary between business stakeholders and the engineering team to produce best-in-class management reporting on third party risk.
• Assist in producing good business and functional requirement documents that are of the appropriate level of detail for the audience concerned.
• Build, manage and maintain relationships with global and regional teams across the bank (including Information Security, Compliance, Legal, Risk and Control and Audit).
• Have the knowledge and confidence to apply critical thinking to make the necessary decisions to progress deliverables. At the same time, understand the limits of their responsibility & expertise and know when to solicit decisions from other members of the project (business or technology).
• Be able to multi-task and work on more than one project at the same time.
• Help rollout features to products/services.
• Enjoy puzzles, logic problems and derive satisfaction from solving problems, communicating discoveries to colleagues and clients in plain English rather than encrypted acronyms, and working with colleagues in co‑located high-performance teams.
• Be excited at being at the inception of a high-performance environment, and enjoy being pushed technically and organisationally to do things 'the right way' as part of a world‑class brand.

Key Responsibilities

• Leverage advanced data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Excel) to design and deliver interactive dashboards and visual reports for third‑party and cloud risk metrics.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance regular and ad‑hoc reports and dashboards for third‑party and cloud risk, supporting senior management, committees, and regulatory submissions.
• Analyse risk data from third‑party suppliers and cloud service providers to identify trends, concentration risks, and emerging issues.
• Support the MD in preparing materials for governance forums, regulatory reviews, and Board presentations.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and integrity across all TPRM and cloud risk reporting.