We are seeking an experienced regulatory and risk advisory practitioner to join our client in Hong Kong at Director level. The successful candidate will lead delivery on regulatory advisory, monitorship and remediation workstreams under Partner-led engagement strategy and regulator-facing positioning, operate as a senior delivery practitioner alongside Partners during regulator-deadline windows, and build the named-account and law-firm-partner relationships that underpin future origination at Senior Director and Partner level. Specific qualifications, regulatory fluency and tooling are detailed in the sections that follow.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new regulatory and risk advisory practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step. With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented compliance and regulatory practitioners to make safe exits to launch rewarding new careers, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery on anti-bribery / anti-corruption (ABC) risk assessments, third-party due-diligence programmes, sanctions and export-controls reviews, AML / CFT framework reviews, and market-conduct compliance reviews - often with HK-Mainland-Singapore-elsewhere-APAC overlay - in support of Partner-led engagement strategy and regulator-facing positioning, while building the named-account and law-firm-partner networks that underpin future personal origination at Senior Director and Partner level.
• Lead delivery on second-line-of-defence advisory workstreams: target-operating-model design, compliance-framework gap assessments, three-lines-of-defence reviews, board-and-audit-committee-instructed culture reviews, and post-incident remediation programmes following SFC / HKMA enforcement-decision exposure.
• Support Partner-led monitorship and DPA-induced advisory engagements: independent compliance monitor delivery, US DOJ / SEC monitor work, UK SFO DPA-monitor work, and HK ICAC / SFC enforcement-induced compliance-uplift programmes.
• Deliver sanctions advisory and investigations workstreams: OFAC / UN / EU / UK / HK sanctions-screening governance, sanctions-evasion fact-pattern review, US export-controls (EAR / ITAR) advisory, and the post-2024 HK National Security Law overlay where relevant; integrate with criminal-referral and HKMA Operations Department pathways where misconduct is identified.
• Advise on AML / CFT framework alignment with the HKMA Guideline on AML / CFT, the SFC Anti-Money Laundering Code of Conduct, the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance, and the 2024 amendments addressing virtual-asset service providers - including transaction-monitoring tuning, name-screening governance, beneficial-ownership identification under the Significant Controllers Register, and PDPO evidence-handling integration.
• Build emerging client relationships and contribute to named-account development at General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Head of Internal Audit and Audit Committee Chair level, and at relevant law firm partner level in Hong Kong and Greater China - under Partner direction.
• Mentor and advocate for managers and senior managers - supporting their delivery on regulatory technical depth, championing their development needs at engagement-staffing rounds, and sponsoring their bilingual upskilling on emerging methodology and AI tooling - and apply industry-standard regulatory tooling at investigation depth in support of advisory and investigative outcomes, particularly on bilingual review populations.
• Stay current with the post-Bribery Act / FCPA enforcement frontier, the SFC enforcement-decision pattern, and emerging HK virtual-asset, sustainable-finance and Stablecoins Bill regulatory perimeters.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Recognised compliance, audit or legal credential, such as CAMS (ACAMS), CFE (ACFE), ICA Diploma in Compliance / AML / Financial Crime, CIA (IIA), CRMA (IIA), or qualified lawyer status (HK Bar / common-law-equivalent practising certificate).
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in compliance advisory, regulatory remediation, internal audit, financial-crime investigations or qualified-legal practice, with substantive direct exposure to financial-services, technology, life-sciences, energy-and-resources or government-sector matters.
• Mandarin and Cantonese working fluency. Bilingual operational capability is essential at this level for HK-Mainland-cross-border regulator engagement, custodian interviews and review supervision.
• Demonstrable track record of leading delivery on risk-assessment, framework-review, monitorship or advisory engagements - in support of Partner-led engagement strategy and regulator-facing positioning, with strong methodology and client-facing presence.
• Direct experience working with senior client stakeholders (General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Audit Committee Chair) and HK regulators (HKMA, SFC, ICAC, IA, PCPD).
• Working knowledge of the Hong Kong regulatory framework: the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO) and ICAC enforcement-decision pattern, the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO), the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (AMLO) and the 2024 amendments addressing virtual-asset service providers, the HKMA Guideline on AML / CFT and the SFC AML Code of Conduct, the Companies Ordinance Significant Controllers Register, PDPO obligations, and the 2024 Mainland Judicial Mutual Assistance arrangements including PIPL / CSL / DSL implications for HK regulator engagement.
• Working knowledge of cross-border ABC frameworks: FCPA (DOJ / SEC), UK Bribery Act (SFO), HK POBO, France's Sapin II, Germany's VerSanG and Brazil's Clean Companies Act.
• Familiarity with industry-standard regulatory and risk tooling, including third-party due-diligence platforms (such as Refinitiv World-Check, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, or LexisNexis Bridger), sanctions-screening platforms (such as Accuity, ComplyAdvantage or LexisNexis Bridger), trade-surveillance platforms (such as NICE Actimize, NASDAQ SMARTS or Eventus Validus), AML transaction-monitoring platforms (such as NICE Actimize, SAS AML or Oracle Mantas), and risk-and-compliance suites (such as Archer or Workiva).
• High-agency operating style with strong judgement under regulator-deadline pressure and the methodological discipline to ensure findings are evidence-based, structured and defensible.
• Calm, credible communication style suited to senior regulator engagement, audit-committee reporting and counsel-led privileged-advisory work in bilingual settings.

Preferred Experience:

• Multiple stacking credentials at senior-leadership level - the recognised pattern at this level on multi-vector regulatory mandates.
• Prior regulator experience or alumni status at HKMA, SFC, ICAC, IA, or international peers (FCA / SEC / DOJ / SFO / OCC, PRC CSRC).
• Experience of cross-border PRC-HK matters under the 2024 Mainland Judicial Mutual Assistance arrangements, including PIPL / CSL / DSL implications for regulator-facing data exchange.
• Postgraduate study in law, finance, public policy, governance or a related discipline.
• Cross-border regulatory experience across Greater China and South-East Asia.
• Track record of converting one-off regulatory-advisory engagements into multi-year retainer or independent-monitor work.
• Established or emerging relationships with law firm partners in regulatory enforcement, white-collar crime, financial-services regulatory, internal-investigations and class-action / privacy-litigation practices who instruct regulatory advisory and monitorship work.
• Continuous-learning posture and active engagement with the AI developments reshaping regulatory and risk advisory: candidates who track tooling shifts (such as AI-assisted compliance monitoring on bilingual populations, LLM-aided regulatory-change tracking across HK and PRC frameworks, automated control-testing, or ML-enriched PEP / SDN screening), share that knowledge with managers and senior managers, and have a track record of supporting team upskilling on emerging methodologies.

Compensation:

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track participation.

Next Steps:

This opportunity is open to Hong Kong permanent residents and qualified candidates with relevant Hong Kong work-rights status who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist regulatory and risk advisory recruitment consultant.

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