Global Head of Compliance
Surbana Jurong Group
Office
SJ Singapore HQ Tower 1
Full Time
Reporting to the Chief Legal Counsel, Surbana Jurong, the Head of Compliance will be responsible for designing and managing all compliance related programmes for SJ Group.
Key accountabilities:
- Delivers a Compliance Program with effective controls and processes within the SJ Group’s operations to ensure strong management of its integrity compliance risks.
- Aligns the compliance strategy with business strategy and manages legal and regulatory requirements.
- Manage senior stakeholders by keeping them apprised of key issues, briefing and securing their support to the SJ Group Compliance team’s recommendations and proposals.
- Drives effective leadership and people management to ensure optimal performance of the team to ensure successful delivery of the company strategy.
Your opportunity with us:
- Leading a team of 6 to 9 compliance professionals in countries where SJ Group operates in.
- Aligning the compliance strategy with business strategy, legal and regulatory requirements.
- Deploying resources to discharge Group Compliance’s mandate to protect the assets, brands, and reputation of the SJ Group.
- Leading the Group Compliance team by setting individual objectives, reviewing performance, and providing on-going feedback.
- Maintaining SJ Group Compliance policies relating to reporting of violations and concerns and provide management with relevant metrics.
- Overseeing the assessment of new laws, regulations and trends and their applicability and implementation to SJ’s operations to ensure that all relevant risks are fully identified and managed.
- Ensuring Group Compliance conducts annual and periodic compliance risk assessments to satisfy minimum internal and external regulatory requirements and validate assessment results with the relevant management, and governance committees.
- Ensuring the corporate governance system operates to ensure the businesses are compliant with all relevant regulatory and legal requirements.
- Review existing compliance programme and ensure that it is robustly implemented across the SJ Group.
- Identifying, participating, and leading compliance projects as they arise within defined scope and timeframe and in accordance with agreed cost and quality and other KPI targets.
About you:
- Minimum 20 years operational compliance experience in global organisations, with at least the last 5 years at senior management level with experience managing or reporting directly to board and C-suite.
- Tertiary degree or equivalent in law, finance, business, or commerce
- Proven ability to manage and motivate a team.
- Demonstrated capacity for commercial oriented problem solving.
- Process improvement orientated, and ability to multi-task and prioritise work.
- A proven track record in implementing and maintaining ISO37001 certification and compliance programmes.
- Ability to draft detailed, logical, well explained and comprehensive decisions and explain complex compliance, regulatory and legal concepts.
At Surbana Jurong, we put talent, hard work, teamwork and a fun workplace together to approach problems and solve them creatively and collaboratively. Join us in making a positive impact on the world!
Global Head of Compliance
Office
SJ Singapore HQ Tower 1
Full Time
August 20, 2025