About this role
<p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The incumbent will be responsible for driving the operationalization of data governance practices across APAC with a focus on the data elements critical to regulatory reporting, risk calculations, financial disclosures, and KYC/AML compliance. This includes ownership of governance for data used in MAS, BNM, APRA, BoT and other regulatory reports.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You need to have a strong combination of functional domain expertise (Risk, Finance, Regulatory Reporting, KYC/AML) and foundational technical understanding of data management, ETL, and governance tooling (such as Collibra). You will collaborate with reporting, risk, compliance, and finance teams across APAC countries to embed governance into data lifecycle processes and support data governance priorities.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Job Responsibilities </b></span></p> <ul> <li>Assist respective teams to identify and prioritize key data elements (KDEs) used in regulatory and risk reports (MAS, BNM, BOT, APRA, etc.).</li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Partner with regulatory reporting teams to align data definitions and resolve data ownership or consistency issues.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Perform data governance assessments on reports including IFRS9, Basel III, Liquidity, Credit Risk, and KYC/AML.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Provide guidance to maintain the data element traceability from source to report using governance tooling.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Interpret regulatory expectations from MAS, BNM, APRA, BOT, and BCBS 239 and translate them into data governance operationalization requirements.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Collaborate with local and central compliance teams to ensure policy alignment and governance readiness for audits or inspections.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Review and support remediation plans for regulatory reporting data gaps or inconsistencies.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Support implementation of data governance operationalization across APAC countries with emphasis on embedding governance into risk and finance data flows.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Assist in rollout of governance frameworks (ownership, data quality, KDE identification) in coordination with local regulatory projects.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Drive discussions with business, IT and architecture teams to enable practical data governance for critical reporting processes.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Support metadata enrichment and KDE cataloging in Collibra for risk and finance data elements.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Work with tool specialists to capture lineage, ownership, and business definitions in Collibra.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ensure alignment of Collibra entries with actual data usage in Basel, IFRS 9, Liquidity, Large Exposure, etc.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Act as the bridge between business (Risk, Finance, Compliance) and data governance/IT teams.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Conduct workshops and training for data stewards and report owners on KDE, data ownership, and lineage practices.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Drive resolution of functional data issues impacting reporting accuracy or compliance.</span></li> </ul> <p><b><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Job Requirements </span></b></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Risk, Business Management, Data Management, or related discipline.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5 to 7 years of experience in regulatory reporting, finance, risk, or KYC/AML roles in a banking or financial services environment (must have). </span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Strong knowledge of key regulatory frameworks: BCBS 239, Basel II/ III, IFRS 9, MAS, BNM, BOT, APRA, etc.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Understanding of end-to-end flow from source data to risk calculation to regulatory reporting submission.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Familiarity with data governance concepts and operationalization (ownership, data quality, metadata, lineage).</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Experience working with data governance tools like Collibra (preferred) and basic understanding of data management platforms, ETL flows, or reporting tools (Vermeg, Moody’s, SAS).</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Excellent stakeholder engagement skills to drive alignment across business and IT teams.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Strong documentation and communication skills to define business metadata and collaborate on reporting governance.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Exposure to regulatory projects, audit reviews, or remediation initiatives is a plus.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Certifications such as CDMP, Collibra, CIMP are advantageous.</span></li> </ul>