Senior Compliance Assurance Officer

Experian; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

Hybrid work

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Experian seeks a Senior Compliance Assurance Officer to lead risk-based reviews across the EMAP region and drive continuous improvement of controls, reporting, and governance. You will coordinate with stakeholders to define scope, perform fieldwork, and translate findings into actionable mitigation steps.

The role combines assurance delivery with ongoing methodology evolution, reporting quality, and GenAI-enabled tooling, enabling a broader impact on regional compliance practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and delivering assurance or testing reviews from scoping through reporting.
• Strong analytical, investigative, interviewing, and testing skills.
• Fluent in English and able to produce clear, well‑structured reports.
• Experience in regulated financial services environments preferable.
• Ability to work independently while balancing detail with regional context.

Responsibilities

• Lead assurance reviews and regional delivery aligned to the EMAP plan.
• Define scope, testing approach, and programmes; build and test controls.
• Produce clear findings reports and drive practical action plans with owners.
• Track actions through to closure and report progress; escalate high‑risk issues.
• Contribute to evolving methodology, templates, and GenAI tooling for efficiency.

Skills

Analytical skills

Testing & assurance

Stakeholder management

Excel & PowerPoint

Project management

English fluency

Education

ACCA / CIA / CISA

Tools

Archer

Job description

Role Overview

The Senior Compliance Assurance Officer plays a key role in delivering effective, risk-based compliance assurance across the EMAP region. This role is suited to someone who can combine strong hands‑on assurance delivery with a broader responsibility to contribute to the continuous improvement across the function.

You will lead and support compliance assurance reviews across a broad and varied business environment, working with stakeholders to assess controls, identify and test compliance risks, report findings clearly, and help drive actions through to resolution.

This role has a wider remit than the delivery of assurance reviews. Alongside assurance execution, you will help strengthen methodology, reporting quality, and manage GenAI-enabled tooling, while contributing to how the Compliance Assurance function evolves across the region.

What You'll Be Doing:

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

Turn findings into action

• 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

Shape the wider assurance approach

• 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

Support governance and regional insight

• Maintain accurate records in Archer and track open issues raised by the team
• Help keep management informed through clear reporting on key indicators, deliverables, and review progress
• Maintain a broad understanding of the business and regulatory environment in which Experian operates

Contribute insight on recurring risk themes and opportunities to improve assurance effectiveness across the region

Experience and Skills

Technical and functional capability

• 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
• Strong analytical, investigative, interviewing, and testing skills
• Confidence using Excel and PowerPoint and developing or maintaining analysis and reporting tools
• Strong organisation, planning, and project management capability

Experience and judgment

• 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
• Strong judgment and the ability to assess complex issues in a pragmatic, risk‑based way
• Ability to operate independently while balancing detail, pace, and regional context

Stakeholder and communication strength

• Ability to work effectively with business owners, compliance colleagues, and senior management
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to produce clear and well‑structured reports
• Fluent in English
• Ability to support and influence others across a regional team without formal line‑management authority
• Professional audit qualification such as ACCA, CIA, or CISA

About Experian

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries.

Our uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experian's people first, inclusive and purpose driven culture is multi award‑winning; World's Best Workplaces™ 2025 (Fortune Global Top 25), Great Place To Work™ in 26 countries to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or explore our Careers Site to understand why. Experian is also proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirative Action employer. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity

Benefits/Perks:

• Great compensation package and discretionary bonus plan
• Hybrid work arrangement - Home & Office
• Experian is an equal opportunities employer

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