IT Compliance & Cybersecurity Lead

Monee is a leading digital payments and financial services provider in Southeast Asia, with a growing presence in Latin America. Its mission is to better the lives of individuals and businesses in the region with financial services through technology.

Monee delivers a comprehensive range of digital financial products and services, including mobile wallets, payment processing, credit, banking, and insurtech. By leveraging technology and strategic partnerships, Monee aims to drive greater digital financial inclusion, convenience, and accessibility for individuals and small businesses across Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Monee is part of Sea Limited, a global technology company.

The IT Compliance & Risk unit within SeaMoney is responsible for managing the Information Technology and Cyber Security risk profiles, including risk identification, management and mitigation across the group (including overseas countries).

• Effectively work with a cross-functional teams to drive compliance to local IT regulatory expectations by understanding the regulatory requirements, establishing policies and processes & engagement with Business, Operations, CISO, IT teams, compliance, local management
• Engage with technology stakeholders to proactively identify risks at a detailed and technical level, design and implement technical risk mitigating measures, ensure that IT is effectively driving remediation activities and to continuously improve IT risk posture
• Develop key security and technology processes such as managing company assets, cloud infrastructure, secure development, and vendor assessments
• Manage audit/ regulatory reviews including coordination, communications, and required actions with internal auditors, external auditors, regulators and internal stakeholders as appropriate
• Lead and mentor team effectively to achieve outcomes, and build a high-performing and motivated team

• Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science, technology or related disciplines
• At least 6 years of relevant experience in the banking/ financial industry, prior team management experience is required
• Strong leadership skills to sustain a high-performing and motivated team
• Knowledge and expertise of industry Information Security Standards and relevant certifications (ISO 27001, NIST, CISSP, PCI DSS or equivalent); SOX 404 knowledge a plus
• IT audit background in banking / financial industry
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to get along with all levels including senior partners
• Strong capability for running multiple tasks simultaneously understanding priority and delivery timeline
• Comfortable with ambiguity and changes in a fast-paced environment