Regional Ethics and Compliance Manager

About the Company
Our client is a leading global oil and gas company with a longstanding reputation for operational excellence, innovation, and responsible business practices. With a significant international presence and diversified operations, the company is committed to maintaining the highest standards of ethics, corporate governance, sustainability, and compliance across all areas of its business.


About the Role
This role is responsible for leading the ethics and compliance function across the Southeast Asia region by ensuring the effective implementation of the organization's global compliance framework and ethical standards. The successful candidate will oversee regional compliance governance, conduct risk assessments, manage investigations and whistleblowing processes, and strengthen third-party compliance programs. Working closely with regional leadership and global compliance teams, this position plays a critical role in fostering a strong culture of integrity, mitigating regulatory and reputational risks, and ensuring consistent adherence to applicable laws, regulations, and corporate policies across multiple jurisdictions.


Key Responsibilities

• Conduct compliance risk assessments, monitoring activities, and internal reviews to identify regulatory, operational, and ethical risks, and develop appropriate mitigation strategies across the region.
• Design, implement, and deliver regional ethics and compliance training programs to promote awareness of anti-corruption, antitrust, data privacy, and other compliance requirements while fostering a strong culture of integrity.
• Drive the implementation and continuous enhancement of the organization's global ethics and compliance framework, ensuring effective adoption of policies, procedures, and governance standards across Southeast Asia operations.
• Ensure third-party compliance by overseeing due diligence processes, monitoring activities, and ongoing assessments of suppliers, distributors, agents, and other business partners.
• Lead and manage regional investigations, whistleblowing cases, and internal reviews related to potential misconduct, regulatory breaches, and ethical concerns, while ensuring timely remediation and corrective actions.
• Monitor and enforce compliance with applicable anti-corruption, competition, sanctions, data protection, and other regulatory requirements across the region.
• Partner with regional business leaders, functional teams, and global compliance stakeholders to provide strategic advice, strengthen governance practices, and support business objectives.
• Oversee the regional implementation of key compliance policies, including anti-corruption standards, gifts and entertainment guidelines, conflicts of interest requirements, and other corporate ethics policies.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline; an MBA and/or professional certifications in compliance, ethics, audit, or risk management will be an advantage.
• Excellent analytical, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage diverse multicultural and cross-border teams.
• Extensive knowledge of anti-corruption regulations, competition laws, data protection requirements, and corporate governance frameworks applicable across multiple jurisdictions.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in compliance, ethics, internal audit, legal, or related functions, preferably within the oil and gas, industrial, manufacturing, or other highly regulated sectors.
• Proven experience in conducting investigations, managing whistleblowing programs, and implementing effective compliance monitoring and remediation processes.
• Strong experience in designing, implementing, and managing enterprise ethics and compliance programs across regional or multinational organizations.
• Strong leadership capabilities, with demonstrated success in building compliance culture, leading cross-functional initiatives, and managing regional stakeholder relationships.
• Strong understanding of compliance risk management, third-party due diligence processes, regulatory frameworks, and corporate ethics practices within complex international environments.

If this opportunity aligns with your background and aspirations, we would be delighted to hear from you. You may apply through the company’s website or send your updated CV directly to [email protected] for a confidential discussion.