Manager, Regional Risk & Assurance

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses, which includes Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia, make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.​

​Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row). In Malaysia, where SEEK’s Asia HQ is located, we received four accolades at the TalentCorp Life at Work Awards 2023, including first runner-up for Best International Organisation and champion for Best CHRO. We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Job Description

Reporting directly to the Regional Senior Risk Manager, this role will see you involved in a broad range of risk assessment, advisory, assurance and compliance reviews, and consulting activities across operational change and transformation programs in SEEK's markets, specifically in Asia. Any experience acquired in tech start-ups, financial services, multinational and/or an industry with sophisticated operational risk issues would be considered ideal.

You will also work closely with your peers in ANZ to support the interaction with relevant partner groups across the organisation.

Key Objective of the Role

• Drive and promote awareness of the SEEK Risk Management Framework and risk assessment process to provide ongoing uplift in risk culture and governance across SEEK operating markets.
• Identify and handle operational risks through risk workshops and drive the documentation and development of controls related to key risks, policies and guidelines. This will help to ensure reliability of financial processes, cybersecurity risk mitigation, data privacy and compliance with laws and regulations.
• Identify weak processes and controls through assurance activities. Use insights from the risk and assurance activities to design, document, and test the efficiency of controls through periodic assessments.
• Conduct or support risk assessments across all business partners for new processes, new products, key programs, and/or initiatives, being the advisor for identified risks, and support remediation efforts and/or policy and process changes.
• Facilitate the outcomes of audit findings and perform root cause analysis to avoid recurrence. Educate SEEK collaborators to elevate compliance culture through structured training, campaigns, and other relevant advocacy initiatives.
• Provide support to APAC Security and APAC Technology team in managing cybersecurity and technology risks, where necessary.
• Lead or support ad-hoc reviews (compliance, assurance, fraud investigations)
• Stay on top of regulatory developments within or outside of the company as well as evolving best practices in compliance risk control.
• Liaise with SEEK’s internal and external auditors, to coordinate and provide control assurance services.
• Review reports and other materials produced as part of assurance activities in closing assurance findings in a timely manner with relevant action owners.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years working experience and a strong knowledge or understanding in a variety of functional areas such as reporting, governance, risk, internal audit, and assurance. Expertise in AI/Technology and cybersecurity risk would be an advantage.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and/or professional qualification in auditing and/or risk management is preferred.
• Strong collaborator engagement skills including facing senior management and executive level collaborators
• Knowledge and experience in BI/data analyst in reporting tools like Confluence, JIRA, Power BI, Workday Financials, Anaplan, Oracle
• Comfort in taking ownership and being held accountable for delivering results!
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment and prioritize tasks effectively.
• Proficiency in analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Open to travel within Seek's Asia markets.

Desired Skills, Experience and Proficiencies:

• Commercial awareness and understanding of business issues.
• A great teammate with good interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in relevant to South-East Asian languages based on SEEK’s operating locations would be highly regarded.

Desired Values

• Believed in aiming high to deliver world-class results and yet, not forgetting to care for others

Additional Information

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.