Job Description
Manager, Risk Management
About Capital A Berhad
Capital A Berhad is a diversified investment holding company with strategic interests across travel, logistics, digital platforms, food & beverage, and aviation-related businesses.
The Group oversees five key subsidiaries — Santan, Teleport, Asia Digital Engineering (ADE), AirAsia MOVE, and AirAsia Next — each serving as important pillars within Capital A's growth and value creation strategy.
Capital A is also a strategic shareholder in the aviation business, maintaining a vested interest in the continued growth and success of the broader aviation ecosystem.
Through active portfolio management, disciplined capital allocation, and strong governance, Capital A aims to maximize long-term shareholder value while enabling innovation and sustainable growth across its businesses.
The Role
The Manager, Risk Management supports the Senior Manager, Risk Management in maintaining, coordinating, and executing the Group-wide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework and Business Continuity Management (BCM) coordination across Capital A Berhad and its operating entities.
Leveraging solid risk management experience from a banking or financial institution background, the ideal candidate will manage end-to-end risk governance and deliver hands-on quantitative and analytical support. Key responsibilities include crunching complex datasets, tracking Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), conducting credit and market risk assessments, evaluating balance sheet, counterparty, covenant, and liquidity exposures across the Group's portfolio, and maintaining interactive risk dashboards.
Key Responsibilities
ERM Execution & KRI Management
- Assist in implementing and maintaining the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) frameworks across operating entities.
- Maintain Group risk registers, track risk appetite metrics and track Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) to flag early warning signals and threshold breaches.
- Coordinate quarterly risk reviews with business units, ensuring mitigation action plans are monitored and documented.
Quantitative Analysis, Credit & Market Risk
- Analyze complex financial and operational datasets to perform quantitative risk analysis, stress testing, and scenario analysis across group entities.
- Evaluate credit and counterparty risks across corporate partners, clients, vendors and payment/merchant ecosystems across subsidiaries.
- Assess market risk exposures, including foreign exchange (FX) volatility, interest rate movements in alignment with Group Treasury strategies.
- Monitor liquidity metrics, debt covenants, and counterparty exposures in coordination with Group Treasury and Finance.
Risk Analytics & Dashboarding
- Build, maintain, and update interactive risk dashboard to deliver automated risk insights for executive decision-making.
- Adapt dashboard views and analytical models rapidly to address ad-hoc risk queries from executive leadership and Board committees.
- Prepare high-quality quantitative risk reporting packs, heatmaps and committee papers for executive review .
Business Partnering
- Work closely with subsidiary management teams across the Capital A ecosystem to conduct risk assessments for new projects, commercial deals and operational changes.
- Conduct practical risk awareness sessions and guide operational teams on standardized risk identification methodologies, KRI tracking templates and reporting templates.
Candidate Profile
Experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience executing Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) frameworks, ideally within banking, financial institutions, or complex multi-entity corporate holding structures.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Risk Management, Finance, Business, Economics, or a related quantitative field. Professional certifications such as FRM, PRM, CFA, CRMP, or CISA are highly advantageous.
- Proven hands-on experience in quantitative risk analysis, financial modeling, stress testing, and evaluating credit, market, FX, and liquidity risks across diverse business units.
- Demonstrated proficiency in developing, building, and maintaining interactive risk dashboards and automated risk reporting tools (e.g., Advanced Excel, Power BI, Google Workspace analytics) for executive decision-making.
- Strong capability in defining, tracking, and monitoring Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) to establish early warning systems across operating entities.
- Excellent project management and reporting skills with a track record of preparing high-quality board papers, risk heatmaps and presentation packs under tight timelines.
- Solid understanding of risk governance, internal controls, regulatory compliance, and international standards such as ISO 31000 and ISO 22301.
- A collaborative team player with a positive attitude, strong business partnering capabilities and excellent interpersonal skills, adept at building effective working relationships across internal teams, subsidiary leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- High level of integrity, analytical precision, self-motivation, and adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced, multi-subsidiary corporate ecosystem.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the confidence and clarity to articulate complex risk insights to senior management.
Success Profile
The ideal candidate is an analytical, tech savvy, data-driven risk professional who combines strong financial risk fundamentals with practical ERM and Business Continuity Management (BCM) execution. Adept at crunching complex, multi-entity datasets, the individual must demonstrate proficiency in building automated, interactive dashboards, monitoring Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and streamline business resilience frameworks across Capital A’s diverse portfolio. A collaborative business partner, they translate risk data into actionable executive insights while maintaining audit readiness and strong governance standards .
