Director, Corporate Strategy & Performance MY

Job Purpose

Assist the Head of Strategy, Performance & Programme Management in leading the Bank’s strategic evolution by driving innovation, exploring new growth engines and shaping the GCEO’s agenda on enterprise priorities. The role is responsible for translating future-focused strategy into tangible outcomes, orchestrating execution across the Group, and unlocking new sources of value in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

Key Responsibilities

As a senior member of the team, the individual is expected to play an integral role in:

• Strategy
  • Drive the development and continuous evolution of Group-wide strategy, including identification of new growth engines, adjacencies, and future business models
  • Lead forward-looking analysis on industry disruption, emerging trends, and competitive dynamics to inform strategic choices
  • Develop strategic scenarios and options to support Board and GCEO decision-making
  • Translate strategy into clear enterprise priorities, capital allocation lenses, and value creation roadmaps
• Innovation & Strategic exploration
  • Originate and lead high-impact innovation initiatives, including new business models, digital propositions, and ecosystem plays
  • Identify and assess strategic investment opportunities, partnerships, and inorganic plays aligned with future growth priorities
  • Establish and drive a structured innovation pipeline (ideation → incubation → scaling)
  • Act as a catalyst across businesses to embed innovation thinking and challenge status quo
• Execution
  • Oversee and orchestrate execution of Group-level strategic initiatives, ensuring delivery of targeted outcomes and value
  • Drive end-to-end accountability from strategy design through to implementation and impact realisation
  • Establish and embed robust tracking frameworks for strategic initiatives, including financial and non-financial KPIs
  • Proactively identify and resolve execution bottlenecks and risks

Job Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in a strategic or advisory capacity
• Preferably with more then 5 years experience in the financial services industry
• Technical/Functional skills
  • Good understanding of the financial services industry as well as adjacencies
  • Good set of strategic and operations problem solving skill
  • Solid base of financial analysis capability
• Personal skills (Soft Competencies [Core/Leadership])
  • Good interpersonal skills especially in managing differing viewpoints and objectives of internal stakeholders
  • Good presentation and influencing skills, required in guiding and assisting teams in putting forward proposals/recommendations