
Lead_Markets Onboarding Regulatory_Demand
- Kuala Lumpur
- Tetap
- Sepenuh masa
- Regulatory Demand Intake, Qualification, and Triage
- Serve as the central point of contact for inbound regulatory requirements affecting onboarding area of financial markets infrastructure.
- Maintain and lead regulatory demand intake process, coordinating with Compliance, Lega and Business COOs / Delegates.
- Perform high-level impact assessments of new and evolving regulations (e.g., SEC, CFTC, EMIR, MiFID II, UMR, SFTR) to identify:
- Jurisdictional scope and effective dates
- Impacted legal entities and products.
- Key control, technology, or documentation implications
- Develop and maintain a regulatory demand pipeline, capturing all intake items, business sponsor alignment, expected impact levels, and proposed timelines.
- Responsible for adherence to Bank's policies & procedures, risk management, operational excellence, and governance applicable to the business function.
- Focuses on benefits realization for the work delivered by the squads.
- Responsible for ensuring Benefits and Metrics are defined, agreed, tracked and reported.
- Once scoped and approved, oversee the handover of regulatory demand into project execution, ensuring:
o Resource planning and budget allocation are aligned with regulatory delivery timelines.
o Business and technology workstreams are coordinated with regulatory milestonesRisk Management
- Identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks related to regulatory implementation.
- Investigates potential risks and compliance issues within the Bank.
- Identify process gaps or inefficiencies in the current onboarding model and propose control enhancements and automation solutions.
- Ensure proactive identification of delivery risks or capacity constraints and lead the resolution in collaboration with business COO's.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Min 8+ years of experience in financial services, with significant exposure to regulatory change, compliance strategy, or financial markets transformation.
- Deep knowledge of end to end financial markets onboarding operations and product classes (e.g., derivatives, fixed income, FX, structured products).
- Experience managing regulatory implementation programs (e.g., MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, EMIR REFIT, UMR, etc).
- Familiarity with the global financial regulatory landscape (SEC, CFTC, ESMA, FCA, MAS, HKMA, USPR, DF, etc.).
- Understanding of trade reporting, margining, client classification, transaction controls, recordkeeping, and governance requirements
- Strong Stakeholder Management
- Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
- Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.