The posting
The Company
Our client is a leading multinational financial services group with an extensive footprint across the Asia-Pacific region. Renowned for delivering comprehensive insurance and financial protection solutions, the organization fosters a highly collaborative and dynamic international environment dedicated to operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and digital transformation.
The Team
You will join a high-performing regional leadership team responsible for overseeing large-scale transformation, governance, internal control, and technology risk initiatives. Operating in a multi-stakeholder environment, the team collaborates closely with regional executive leadership, cross-functional business units, and local country entities across Asia to drive strategic alignment and regulatory compliance.
The Role
In this high-visibility position, you will lead the project management office (PMO) and coordination efforts for a major multi-stream regional remediation programme, focusing heavily on risk control and business continuity, governance, internal controls, and IT security. You will oversee consolidated roadmaps, manage critical dependencies and risks, drive the production of key deliverables across Control, Conduct, and Cyber Security streams, and prepare executive governance materials for senior leadership to ensure transparent tracking, timely decisions, and successful outcomes.
The Requirements
- Professional Experience: At least 10 years of relevant experience in IT project management, transformation project management, technology governance, or production management within a complex, international environment.
- Core Expertise: Demonstrated track record in leading large-scale regional remediation programmes, implementing structured governance, and driving risk control and business continuity initiatives.
- Technical Knowledge: Strong practical understanding of infrastructure rationalisation, cloud migration, IT operations, observability, incident management, resilience, backup and recovery, business continuity planning, and production governance.
- Risk & Asset Management: Proven experience in IT asset management, configuration and inventory reconciliation, technology obsolescence management, vulnerability remediation, and governance reporting.
- Stakeholder & Executive Management: Strong executive communication, stakeholder facilitation, risk management, synthesis, and escalation capabilities, with experience coordinating multi-entity regional and local teams.
- Autonomous Execution: Ability to work autonomously, maintain audit-ready documentation and full traceability, and handle confidential information appropriately.
- Regulatory Oversight: Access to or experience leveraging legal and regulatory expertise to support compliance assessments, interpret regulatory expectations, and assist in related discussions.
- Language Skills: Fluent English is mandatory. Proficiency in Japanese and/or Mandarin (Taiwanese context) is an advantage for effective coordination with country teams.
Contacts
If you are interested in discussing this opportunity, please get in touch with Christine Tsui : [email protected]



