PSA | Lead, Group Operations Risk

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Job Summary

• Enables first-line Operations Risk capability authoring Group-wide control standards
• coordinating and providing assurance governing issues and incidents enabling audit readiness/closure of audit deliverables
• Acts as primary interface with Group Risk and Internal Audit -Operates through a hub-and-spoke model to uplift control effectiveness and transparency across LBUs with consolidated reporting through PRISM/eGRC.

Control Design Standards & Assurance Playbooks

• Author and maintain Group Operations Risk policies standards and control libraries aligned to Group frameworks and regulatory expectations.
• Develop assurance playbooks detailing sampling methods evidence requirements monitoring cadence and validation guidelines for LBUs including Read across
• Provide design-time support & challenge to major initiatives to ensure controls are embedded effectively and proportionately.
• Harmonize Ops Controls with Group ORM and NFRM framework

Issue Governance Aging & Dashboards

Internal Audit & Group Risk Interface

• Own the central issue log ensuring accurate categorization robust RCA and sustainable remediation.
• Publish aging dashboards and thematic insights; operate escalation routines for overdue or high-risk items.
• Ensure end-to-end data quality and completeness in PRISM including evidence and closure verification.
• Coordinate first-line inputs evidence and follow-up with Internal Audit and Group Risk without influencing audit outcomes.
• Track closure of audit findings and ensure linkage to control standards and assurance playbooks

Read across Incident Governance & Operational Losses

• Run the incident governance cadence covering classification RCA remediation tracking and reporting of losses/near misses.
• Lead thematic post-incident reviews and read-across across LBUs; ensure lessons learned are embedded.

Governance Reporting & Stakeholder Management

• Prepare quarterly updates for Group Risk/Executive committees on Ops risk posture incident/issue themes and forward-looking exposures.
• Lead cross-LBU engagement using the hub-and-spoke operating model and contribute to the Group Business Controls Report (Ops chapters).

Risk Culture Capability & Community

• Coach LBUs on control effectiveness evidence quality and issue closure expectations.
• Foster a proactive risk culture and build a community of practice for Ops risk across markets.

Qualifications

• A degree in Finance Audit or equivalent.
• 1015 years of experience in Operational Risk Internal Controls Operational Resilience or first-line assurance preferably within insurance or financial services.
• Proven experience at Group or regional level operating across multiple markets preferably in a hub-and-spoke governance model.
• Demonstrated leadership in policy/standards authorship control framework design and assurance methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with issue/incident governance RCA KRI frameworks dashboards remediation oversight and governance reporting.
• Exposure to regulatory frameworks relevant to insurance operations (e.g. MAS OR OJK BNM Operational Risk principles).
• Preferred Relevant academic background in Risk Compliance Operations Business or related fields.
• Deep understanding of the IIA Three Lines Model operational risk taxonomy internal control principles and assurance techniques.

• Strong familiarity with PRISM or equivalent eGRC platforms including data quality workflows issue/incident modules and reporting.
• Ability to review challenge and uplift BCP/DR practices resilience frameworks and change readiness.
• Excellent analytical skills and comfort with dashboards data-driven insights KRIs/KCIs and thematic risk analysis.

• Influential stakeholder manager capable of engaging Group Risk Internal Audit Group COO LBU COOs and cross-functional governance teams.
• Ability to lead through influence operate with 1st/1.5 line mindset and reinforce independence boundaries.
• Strong communication and governance presence with the ability to convert complexity into simple executive-ready insights.

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