Senior Director / Director, Project Management, Compliance

About FWD Group

FWD Group (1828.HK) is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business that serves approximately 40 million customers across 10 markets, including BRI Life in Indonesia. FWD’s customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code 1828. For more information, please visit www.fwd.com

For more information about FWD Hong Kong, please visit www.fwd.com.hk/

The Job

Lead the Compliance Project Management Team, including its governance framework, delivery standards, project portfolio, reporting and project management tracking tools, templates and escalation protocols.

Oversee the delivery and progress of Compliance-led and Compliance-related projects, ensuring clear scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, issues and accountabilities.

Develop integrated project plans and maintain accurate project dashboards, action trackers, decision logs, risk and issue registers, change records and supporting evidence to provide a complete audit trail.

Follow up remediation actions for Compliance-related incidents, ensuring root causes, control enhancements, owners, target dates, testing and closure evidence are properly documented.

Lead the AML systems revamp and support the implementation of new project initiatives.

Act as the Compliance project manager for major business and regulatory initiatives, ensuring Compliance requirements and dependencies are embedded in the overall project plan.

Facilitate project working groups and governance forums, prepare concise management updates, secure decisions and approvals, and escalate material delivery risks promptly to the Chief Compliance Officer and relevant committees.

Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, including three lines of defence, Group Office, external advisers and business teams, while maintaining clear delineation of project and control ownership.

Build project management capability within Compliance through coaching, practical guidance, standard methodologies and continuous improvement.

Perform any ad hoc duties or special projects as assigned by the Chief Compliance Officer.

The Person

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, law, risk management, information systems, project management or a related discipline.

Minimum of 10 years’ relevant experience in financial services, insurance, banking, consulting, regulatory remediation, compliance transformation or programme and project management, including substantial experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives.

Experience leading a project management team or project portfolio and engaging senior executives, regulators, auditors, vendors and multidisciplinary stakeholders.

Demonstrate experience managing regulatory, audit or compliance remediation programmes and delivering system, data, process or methodology change.

Exposure to AML/CFT, sanctions, name screening, customer risk rating, transaction monitoring, data quality or other financial crime controls is highly preferable.

Professional certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, CAMS or an equivalent compliance, audit or risk qualification is an advantage.

Sound understanding of insurance and financial services regulatory frameworks, Compliance governance and applicable AML/CFT and financial crime requirements.

We offer 5-day work, 20-22 days annual leaves, excellent learning & development opportunities and an attractive package to the right candidate.

Information collected will be treated in strict confidence and used solely for recruitment purpose. The company will retain all applications no longer than 24 months of which will be destroyed thereafter. When there are vacancies in any of our subsidiaries, holding companies, associated or affiliated companies of, or companies controlled by, or under common control with the Company during that period, we may transfer your application to them for consideration of employment. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, disability or family status in employment process.