Senior Vice President Risk Management

Tun Razak Exchange; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading exchange firm in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Senior Vice President for Risk, Integrity & Compliance. The successful candidate will drive the execution of the risk management framework and compliance governance. Responsibilities include overseeing risk assessments, ensuring compliance with various regulations, and providing advisory support to senior leadership. The ideal candidate should have at least 15 years of experience in risk management and related fields, along with a Bachelor's degree and professional certifications preferred.

Qualifications

• At least 15 years of experience in risk management, integrity, compliance, governance, or audit.
• Proven ability to lead risk and compliance functions in an enterprise.
• Strong knowledge of MACC Act, ISO standards, and corporate governance codes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of an enterprise-wide risk management framework.
• Oversee compliance with legal, regulatory, and internal policy obligations.
• Conduct investigations into misconduct or ethical breaches.
• Prepare reports on risk exposure and compliance status.

Skills

Risk management

Integrity and compliance frameworks

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Law, Business, Finance or related fields

Master’s degree or professional certifications (e.g. CERM, CCEP, CRMA, ESG)

Job description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES

The SVP, Risk, Integrity & Compliance is responsible for driving the operational execution of TRXC’s enterprise risk management framework, compliance governance, and integrity programmes. The role ensures that risk controls, governance standards, ethical conduct, and regulatory obligations are effectively embedded across all business units.

The SVP will lead the organisation’s integrity and compliance system, strengthen risk oversight, and ensure that TRXC’s policies, processes, and practices align with the highest standards of governance, ethics, and transparency. This role also provides expert advisory to senior leadership on risk exposure, regulatory requirements, and governance matters.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Risk Management

• Lead the implementation of TRXC’s enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) framework and ensure its integration across all divisions.
• Oversee the identification, analysis, evaluation, and prioritisation of risks impacting TRXC’s operations, assets, investments, and joint ventures.
• Evaluate and strengthen internal controls, ensuring alignment with governance, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Drive the monitoring of key risk indicators (KRIs), perform trend analysis, and elevate emerging risks.
• Lead the development and enhancement of risk policies, procedures, methodologies, and governance structures.
• Ensure risk considerations are embedded into corporate planning, project development, strategic investments and major business decisions.
• Provide risk insights, mitigation recommendations and assurance reports to senior management.

Integrity & Compliance

• Drive the establishment and enforcement of TRXC’s integrity management framework, governance culture and anti-corruption standards.
• Oversee compliance with all legal, regulatory, governance and internal policy obligations.
• Lead the end-to-end management of the integrity complaint and whistleblowing system, ensuring impartiality, confidentiality and timely resolution.
• Conduct or oversee investigations into misconduct, corruption, fraud or ethical breaches.
• Develop and implement integrity building initiatives, including awareness programmes, ethics training, communication campaigns and employee engagement on governance matters.
• Monitor regulatory developments, interpret organisational impact and implement compliance measures accordingly.
• Ensure alignment with MACC-Act requirements, ISO compliance frameworks and recognised governance best practices.

Internal Audit

• Lead the preparation and coordination of the annual risk-based internal audit plan in collaboration with internal and external auditors.
• Oversee audit fieldwork, ensuring accuracy, adequate scope coverage and timely access to information.
• Review audit findings, develop corrective and preventive action plans and track closure of audit gaps.
• Coordinate special audits, investigative audits or forensic reviews related to risk, integrity or compliance issues.
• Strengthen the audit governance ecosystem to ensure consistent assurance and transparency.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage with regulators, auditors, government agencies and industry bodies on integrity, risk and compliance matters.
• Collaborate with all divisions and project teams to embed governance controls and enhance risk ownership across the organisation.
• Represent the function in internal governance forums, cross-functional committees and regulatory meetings.
• Provide expert guidance and advisory to senior leadership on risk trends, regulatory obligations and governance impacts.

Reporting & Communication

• Prepare comprehensive reports on risk exposure, compliance status, integrity initiatives and governance performance for senior management and relevant committees.
• Ensure timely submission of reports, registers, dashboards and governance documentation.
• Develop internal communication strategies to build organisational awareness on risk, integrity and compliance expectations.
• Maintain high-quality documentation, ensuring audit readiness and transparent governance practices.

Other Risk, Governance & Assurance Support (Advisory)

• Provide advisory and facilitative support on other governance, risk and assurance matters including coordination with external advisors or consultants on risk related topics.
• Support the embedding of risk considerations into corporate planning, project development, strategic investments and major business decisions by providing risk assessments and structured risk input.
• Provide objective risk insights and mitigation observations to support senior management discussions under the direction and oversight of HOD.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Law, Business, Finance, Environmental Science or related fields.
• Master’s degree or professional certifications (e.g. CERM, CCEP, CRMA, ESG certifications) are an advantage.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in risk management, integrity, corporate compliance, governance, audit or related areas.
• Proven experience leading risk and compliance functions, frameworks or departmental operations.
• Strong knowledge of governance, integrity, anti-corruption, and compliance frameworks including MACC Act, ISO standards, ERM methodologies and corporate governance codes.
• Strong analytical, investigative and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication, influence and stakeholder management capabilities.
• High integrity, professional ethics and commitment to transparent governance.