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ROLE PURPOSE

The role is responsible for leading the bank’s end‑to‑end regulatory engagement, ensuring timely, accurate, and professional communication with regulatory authorities. The role oversees regulatory reporting, supervisory inquiries, onsite examinations, and audits, while driving regulatory change to ensure the bank’s policies, processes, and business practices align with supervisory expectations. The position also focuses on strengthening and safeguarding the bank’s regulatory relationships, credibility, and standing through proactive monitoring of regulatory developments and effective coordination with internal stakeholders.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the point of contact between the bank and regulators and manage day-to-day interactions with regulators, including queries, requests for information and follow-ups.
• Review and provide insight into regulatory letters and approval submissions, ensuring regulatory expectations are met and submissions are completed in a timely manner.
• Track all regulatory engagements and action items from meetings and prepare briefing notes for regulatory visits.
• Oversee logistics and organizing for regulatory engagements, on site visits/audits, ensuring smooth coordination of meetings and visits.
• Oversee regulatory communications, including incoming and outgoing correspondences, coordinate meetings.
• Regularly review and reconcile records to confirm that all regulatory commitments and instructions are properly addressed and responded to in timely manner.
• Provide periodic reports and regular updates on the status of regulatory correspondence, implementation timelines, deadlines, and outstanding action items.
• Prepare regulatory correspondence, briefing notes, and management updates for senior management, committees, and regulators, as required.
• Oversee regulatory change management and governance, maintaining the compliance register, tracking regulatory developments up to an implementation stage, assessing impact on the bank, and ensuring internal alignment through structured regulatory affairs management and proactive communication with stakeholders.
• Oversee the maintenance of a structured repository of regulatory communications, approvals, submissions, meeting records, and action items, ensuring all records are organized and easily accessible for reference.
• Oversee the outstanding items tracker, including regulatory submissions, approvals, and ongoing obligations, ensuring all outstanding items pending completion are addressed within required timelines
• Develop and maintain a centralized tracker of regulatory changes and implementation status to provide clear oversight of compliance progress and regulatory obligations.
• Oversee day-to-day activities of the regulatory engagement function, ensuring efficient workflows and timely deliverables.
• Manage, mentor, and develop team members to strengthen regulatory engagement capability, technical knowledge, and professional communication standards.
• Participate in all major regulatory projects that have a business impact.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

Education & Special Training

Essential

• University degree in Business/Finance/Banking/Law or related fields.

Desirable

• Professional Certification(s) in Compliance, Risk, Audit, Governance (e.g., ACCA, CPA, CIA or equivalent)
•  Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, and email communication.
•  Strong written communication skills in both English and Burmese.

Experience

• Minimum 4-5 years of experience in banking, compliance, regulatory governance, or risk management.
• Proven experience in regulatory engagement and communication with regulators, managing regulatory submissions, correspondence, and interactions, handling regulatory examinations, and supervisory reviews.
• Experience in regulatory change management, including tracking regulatory developments and implementation.
• Experience engaging with senior management, committees, and regulators.
• Team management experience with demonstrated ability to lead and develop staff.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of banking regulations, regulatory frameworks, and regulatory engagement practices.
• Strong written communication skills in both English and Myanmar.
• Solid knowledge of letter/document control, record keeping, and compliance workflows.
• Good reviewing, monitoring, and coordination skills to manage regulatory communications.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Good analytical, problem solving, organizational and reporting writing skills.
• High level of integrity, discretion, and professional judgment in handling regulatory matters.
• Demonstrate leadership, including team management and development.
• Strong professional attitude, with a proactive, accountable, and solutions-oriented mindset.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly PowerPoint for presentation and compliance reporting.

Languages

• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills in both English and Myanmar language.
• Strong Business Proficiency in both Englis hand Myanmar, including reporting writing and presentation skill is required.