Senior Manager, Financial Crime & TPRM - APAC/KL

Prudential plc; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential plc in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a leadership-focused Compliance and Risk Professional to provide visible local leadership for KL-based FCC and TPRM teams, overseeing delivery, budgets, contracts and governance.

The role spans coordinating cross-functional priorities, translating Group priorities, driving reporting improvements, and tracking regulatory developments to inform senior management decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering risk and compliance programs in a financial services environment.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to translate group priorities into local plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible local leadership for Kuala Lumpur-based FCC and TPRM colleagues, developing capability, promoting engagement and setting expectations for effective delivery.
• Provide senior oversight of Kuala Lumpur-based compliance services, including Gifts and Hospitality, Conflicts of Interest and StarCompliance, with responsibility for service performance, control effectiveness and improvement priorities while routine processing remains with operational teams.
• Oversee the commercial and operational arrangements supporting Kuala Lumpur delivery, including budgets, vendors, licences, contracts and recharges, and sponsor significant service, system and process improvements through the relevant accountable teams.
• Act as the principal local interface with Head Office, translating Group priorities into coordinated plans and maintaining senior visibility of ownership, capacity, dependencies, performance and emerging risks.
• Coordinate delivery of cross-functional priorities, ensuring clear ownership, appropriate specialist input and timely escalation of material issues.
• Draw together insights on FCC priorities, including material arrangements, emerging thematic risk themes and trends, control weaknesses, exceptions and remediation to support senior management decisions.
• Coordinate updates to Group FCC and TPRM policies, standards and supporting guidance, including consultation, governance and implementation support.
• Oversee the FCC and TPRM governance and reporting rhythm, ensuring papers, decisions, issues and actions are timely, accurate and focused on material risks and required management action.
• Coordinate periodic management information and KRI reporting across FCC and TPRM, working through domain and reporting teams to assure data quality, meaningful analysis and clear senior-management commentary.
• Drive improvement of reporting frameworks, calendars, templates and data definitions, escalating material weaknesses in automation, data quality or decision-usefulness to accountable owners.
• Track financial crime and third-party risk regulatory developments across Group jurisdictions; assess impact on Group requirements and flag required changes.
• Coordinate FCC training and awareness activity with BU/LBU and Group subject matter experts, tracking delivery and completion.
• Build effective working relationships across Group Risk and Compliance, Procurement, Operations, Legal, Internal Audit and local second-line teams.
• Support projects, transformation initiatives and ad hoc deliverables within the scope of the function as required.
• Prudential is an equal opportunity employer.

Job description

Prudential plc in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a leadership-focused Compliance and Risk Professional to provide visible local leadership for KL-based FCC and TPRM teams, overseeing delivery, budgets, contracts and governance.

The role spans coordinating cross-functional priorities, translating Group priorities, driving reporting improvements, and tracking regulatory developments to inform senior management decisions.