Senior Compliance Assurance Lead — Hybrid (EMAP)

Experian PLC; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great compensation package

Discretionary bonus plan

Job summary

Experian PLC, a global data and technology company, is seeking a Senior Compliance Assurance Officer to lead regional assurance reviews across EMAP. You will assess controls, identify risk, and drive remediation with business owners in a complex regulatory environment.

The role requires strong experience in monitoring, testing, and audit within financial services, with proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for reporting and analytics.

Qualifications

• Good working knowledge of EU privacy and data protection regulation and its key principles.
• Experience planning and delivering assurance or testing reviews from scoping through reporting.
• Confidence using Excel and PowerPoint and developing or maintaining analysis and reporting tools.
• Strong organisation, planning, and project management capability.
• Around 5 years of experience in monitoring, testing, assurance, or audit within regulatory compliance.
• Experience working in a substantial regulated organisation, ideally in Financial Services.

Responsibilities

• Lead assurance reviews and regional delivery.
• Plan and execute compliance assurance reviews in line with the Global Compliance Management Programme and the annual EMAP Compliance Assurance Plan.
• Define review scope, testing approach, and review programmes.
• Build and perform testing of compliance controls.
• Conduct fieldwork, reviews, and fact-finding meetings.
• Maintain clear, accurate, and high-quality working papers.
• Prepare reports that clearly set out findings, risks, conclusions, and required actions.
• Work with business owners and management to agree practical action plans and mitigation steps.
• Track agreed actions through to closure and report on progress.
• Escalate high-risk issues where appropriate.
• Support the Head of Compliance Assurance in developing and implementing the compliance risk monitoring and testing process.
• Provide input into the annual Compliance Assurance Plan.
• Support other EMAP Compliance colleagues in undertaking compliance testing and applying a consistent assurance approach.
• Help maintain and evolve the EMAP Compliance Assurance methodology, reporting templates, and GenAI tooling to improve productivity and effectiveness.

Skills

EU privacy regulations

Compliance testing

Analytical thinking

Project management

Risk assessment

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Experian PLC, a global data and technology company, is seeking a Senior Compliance Assurance Officer to lead regional assurance reviews across EMAP. You will assess controls, identify risk, and drive remediation with business owners in a complex regulatory environment.

The role requires strong experience in monitoring, testing, and audit within financial services, with proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for reporting and analytics.