Human Resources Compliance Manager

OCBC; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join OCBC as an HR Compliance Manager, where you'll ensure compliance with regulations and manage HR risks within the division. This role involves advising staff on compliance issues, performing quality assurance checks, and fostering a strong culture of compliance. Ideal candidates are self-motivated, ethical, and have strong communication skills to liaise effectively with different divisions.

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently and provide counsel on compliance matters.
• Strong interpersonal communication to engage with various divisions.
• Ethical and principled behavior in compliance matters.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance of HR Division with legal regulations and internal processes.
• Act as Audit Liaison Officer and coordinate critically with auditors.
• Conduct Quality Assurance Checks to maintain risk management controls.

Skills

Communication

Presentation

Interpersonal skills

Proactive

Alertness

Job description

Why Join

The role of a HR Compliance Manager is to make sure that the HR Division in the Bank provides the necessary advice to Businesses to safeguard the interests of the Bank in terms of managing risk, mitigating lawsuits and ensuring that the practices of the Bank are in compliance with all national and international laws and regulations relating to banking industry as well as professional standards, accepted business practices, and ethical standards.

How it works

In so doing, the HR Compliance Manager is required to work with various stakeholders to identify and manage the Bank’s risk exposure by ensuring that the systems and controls are effective and relevant to mitigate the division’s risk exposure, whilst encouraging a culture of compliance and ethical standards.

What you do

• Reviewing and ensuring that HR Division is in compliance with all relevant regulations, legal requirements and internal processes of the Bank;
• Advising HR staff on compliance and risk matters related to HR functions by identifying, translating and communicating the relevant regulations, legal requirements and internal processes of the Bank;
• Acting as the Audit Liaison Officer in coordinating audit/reviews from regulators, internal/external auditors and Regulatory Compliance Unit as well as attending to their enquiries on timely basis;
• Performing Quality Assurance Checks such as Risk Control Self-Assessment and Regulatory Requirements Self-Assessment and Control Self-Assessment on a timely basis to ensure that the controls in HR Division are effective in mitigating the Division’s risk exposure;
• Ensuring other HR staff also perform Quality Assurance Checks such as Risk Control Self-Assessment and Regulatory Requirements Self-Assessment and Control Self-Assessment, accurately and on a timely basis;
• Participating in various bank-wide working groups on information and operational risks by attending the working groups meetings and disseminating the information to HR staff to create awareness on information and operational risks related matters;
• Managing and handling HR Division’s Business Continuity Management (BCM), including reviewing the BCM workbook to ensure that the business continuity planning is relevant and in place in the event of crisis as well as create awareness among HR staff on the Division’s BCP.

Who you are

• Independently able to discharge duties without much supervision and able to provide correct advice and guidance to HR staff on overall risk and compliance matters.
• Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills in order to be able to interact effectively with personal from various levels and divisions;
• Ethical and principled;
• Proactive, must be willing to scrutinize existing processes and provide suggestions to improve any weaknesses;
• Alertness and vigilance to identify potential breaches in compliance and actively enforcing mandatory reporting policies;
• Willingness to learn and keep abreast of new laws and regulations;
• Diligent, in the sense that even when matters become a hassle, must be willing to see an issue through to resolution.