WHAT YOU'LL DO

This is a new opportunity for a Compliance Manager to join the Compliance team for Asia Pacific at BCG.
The Compliance team is part of BCG’s Risk function. The team provides steering, oversight and advisory on critical policies, processes, and systems that guide our interactions internally and externally to align with BCG culture and values on topics such as, but not limited to, bribery and corruption, insider trading, conflicts of interest, third party risk and information management.
The team develops collaborates with stakeholders and subject matters experts to implement toolkits, frameworks, communications and trainings, to empower BCG staff to act in accordance with our values, and to promote adherence to laws, regulatory requirements, and internal policies and procedures.
This role will involve performing proactive compliance advisory, training, communications, reporting, and procedural tasks relating to the Asia Pacific businesses for BCG.

In particular this role will be responsible for:

• Supporting the business to identify, assess and manage material risks in client engagements/interactions, with reference to BCG purpose and values (as reflected in BCG policies, guidelines and practices).
• Supporting the business to identify, assess and manage material risks programmatically using horizon scanning, risk assessments, monitoring and assurance, review of lessons learnt and developing plans to address the same.
• Identifying opportunities to mitigate compliance risks and create efficiencies in the way the global compliance initiatives are delivered; and
• Supporting in the roll-out and implementation of global change management activities in relation to BG policies, guidelines, and practices.
• The role will work proactively on a variety of tasks and projects to support successful outcomes and efficiencies.
• Work with global and functional teams to perform a compliance maturity assessment against global compliance standards to identify best practices and evaluate whether there are any areas for improvement. Provide guidance on mitigating actions to address gaps or find efficiencies.
• Perform horizon scanning across legislation, regulations, and requirements relevant to BCG.
• Provide compliance advice, support, and training, and carry out compliance monitoring, where required.
• Alongside appropriate cross-functional teams, including Legal, help to assess the relevance of new or changing regulation in respect of BCG's operations. Ensure local offices keep appropriate records of determinations and interpretations.
• In collaboration with the Global Compliance team, recommend local thresholds and reporting requirements and work with the relevant teams to develop the necessary KPI’s to fulfil these.
• Provide client and business service teams with relevant articles and prepare guidance for ongoing best practices in relation to compliance risks.
• Produce and disseminate high level summaries and impactful information on compliance matters to key stakeholders including, but not limited to, the Global Compliance Centre of Excellence team as well as local leadership roles (including Regional and System Risk & Compliance MDP Nodes), Finance Regional Controllers and Heads of Finance
• Oversee data validation and integrity checks on datasets used for compliance reporting.
• Oversee bottom-up risk identification exercises in Regions/Systems/Local Offices, including aggregating results and producing analysis and reports.
• Attend appropriate industry briefing on relevant topics ensuring that outputs from these briefing are then appropriately disseminated to stakeholders within the business.
• Assume additional responsibilities as required.

YOU'RE GOOD AT
 

• Experience influencing staff of all levels of an international and matrix-based working environment.
• Setting direction for own work area, inputting into high level goals and agenda
• Ability to assess end-to-end business risk priorities associated with compliance risks relevant to a professional services organization, such as bribery and corruption, insider trading, conflicts of interest, third party risk and information management.
• Ability to make risk-based decisions, using sound judgement to escalate appropriately.
• Capability to provide advice & guidance to business units, covering policies, procedures, and risks.
• Strong background in risk and controls
• Strong ability to identify trends and unusual activity in management information and data.
• Demonstrated experience in project and risk management.
• Developing internal networks across functions. Acting as a contact for stakeholders at a variety of levels
• High integrity, flexibility, willingness to progress initiatives while demonstrating a strong sense of ownership and independence.
• Professional compliance or legal qualifications will be considered favorably.
• Fluent business English (spoken and written); additional languages desirable.

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)
 

• An academic degree in a relevant discipline. Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in BCG global services, BST (or consulting team). Alternatively, 5-7 years relevant experience in a leadership role, either in a compliance environment / or other risk management discipline such as audit, fraud examination, quality control, compliance and risk analysis within a financial/ banking institution, professional services, consulting firm or international business (aerospace, transport, construction, pharmaceutical, healthcare etc.)
• Commitment to confidentiality required.