Job Description
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
- Serve as Course Director for three or four SEACEN courses each year, specializing in the Financial Stability and Banking Supervision courses. The duties of a Course Director involve developing the curriculum and drafting the agenda for a course, assembling pre-course materials (if any), recruiting presenters (primarily from SEACEN strategic partners and members, but also including independent consultants and professionals employed by academic institutions, think tanks, law firms, consulting firms, audit/accounting firms, etc.), presenting at sessions in the course, summarizing evaluations, and making recommendations for future offerings of the course.
- On demand from members, organize and carry out TS engagements. A TS engagement, which is limited to two weeks, involves deciding with the member on a discrete task for which the member desires assistance, providing the specialized training or technical assistance, recruiting other providers (if any), and writing up the results in the form of recommendations and suggestions for future work.
- Organize and carry out occasional ad-hoc events on trending topics, such as FinTech, cybersecurity, climate risk resilience, IFRS 9, Pillar 2, recovery and resolution planning, crisis management, corporate governance, culture/conduct evaluations, data analytics and RegTech/SupTech, etc.
- Engage in research on financial stability and banking supervision topics, self-generated or as suggested by members.Results of research will be published on the SEACEN blog, as SEACEN policy analysis papers, and/or in professional journals.
- Conduct occasional surveys of stakeholders on emerging issues.
- Assist in organizing and carrying out high-level conferences and meetings for stakeholders, including the annual SEACEN Policy Summit and Directors of Supervision and Deputy Governors for Financial Stability and Supervision.
- Serve as Relationship Manager for 8-9 stakeholders, familiarizing him/herself with the officials there and frequently communicating with them to assess their capacity-building and informational needs in the areas of supervision and payments.
- On demand, accept occasional requests to present on relevant topics at non-SEACEN events throughout the region. Requestors may include SEACEN stakeholders, the Asian Development Bank, private organizations such as Risk.net and Currency Research, etc.
- Conduct occasional SEACEN podcasts and webinars.
- Contribute ideas and action items toward building the SEACEN brand throughout the region and worldwide.
- Develop and maintain professional relationships with officials and experts from a wide variety of organizations involved in financial sector supervision or payments, including central banks, monetary authorities, stand-alone supervisory authorities, deposit insurance agencies, multilateral development banks, international standardsetting bodies, academic institutions, think tanks, etc.
Role Purpose
To organize and carry out training programs, highlevel conferences and meetings, Targeted Support (TS, a form of technical assistance) engagements, ad-hoc forums, and research, in the areas of financial stability, financial supervision, and payments, for the benefit of the 35 SEACEN stakeholders (members, associate members, and observers) throughout Asia-Pacific. These stakeholders are central banks and monetary authorities (hereafter, “central banks”). The role will include significant responsibility for directing courses in financial stability and banking supervision and other activities, such as research, relating to financial stability and banking supervision.
Summary of Qualifications
The ideal candidate will be an expert in financial stability and banking supervision, with significant knowledge and expertise obtained through employment at a central bank, separate financial sector regulatory authority, resolution authority, or deposit insurance agency.
The candidate will be expected to be able to engage productively in learning programs, conferences, research, and other events across a broad spectrum of stability/supervision issues, including macroprudential supervision, supervision of nonbank financial intermediaries, risk-based supervision, Basel II/III, cross-border banking, asset quality reviews and expected credit loss provisioning, stress testing, capital and liquidity management, and evaluation of corporate governance using modern tools. Candidates with experience and expertise in the rapidly-developing areas of climate risk resilience of the financial sector (including sustainable finance) and real-time analysis of the condition and performance of the banking sector and individual banks using data analytics and alternative data (“big data”) are especially encouraged to apply.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree in economics, accounting/auditing, management, banking, finance, or a related field, from an accredited university.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience, preferably at a central bank, stand-alone financial sector regulatory authority, resolution authority, deposit insurance agency, consulting firm, international standard-setting organization, or multilateral development bank.
- Familiarity with the latest innovations in financial stability and banking supervision.
- Significant experience in presenting instructional materials before groups, large and small.
- Some familiarity with innovative tools of adult education, such as online training, development of e-learning modules, instant on-line surveys and quizzes, entry-and-exit knowledge evaluation, etc.
- Ability to convey relatively complex ideas in an understandable way to audiences that have a wide variety of skills, abilities and experiences.
- Exceptional ability to communicate clearly in English, in both oral and written form, with minimum editing.
Compensation, Benefits and Requirements
The position offers competitive salary conditions and benefits. The following documents should be sent to hr@seacen.org by 31 December 2021:
- latest CV
- relevant graduate/postgraduate certificates current and expected salary
- Three (3) professional references, one each from people who have worked with you in a professional capacity and who can comment on your suitability for the advertised position
- recent passport-size photo (optional)
Additional information about the position can be obtained from Glenn Stephen Tasky, Director, FSSP, at glenn@seacen.org. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Length of Assignment
Fixed-term contract of up to three years, with possibility of renewal. The SEACEN Centre actively welcomes applications from experienced analysts at central banks/monetary authorities as part of a secondment programme.
Location and Reporting
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with extensive travel within the region and occasional travel outside the region (when possible in the light of health and border considerations).
Position reports to the Director, FSSP, and the Executive Director, The SEACEN Centre.
About the Organization
Since its inception in the early 1980’s, The SEACEN Centre has established its unique regional position in serving its membership of central banks in the Asia-Pacific region through its learning programmes, research work, and networking and collaboration platforms for capability building in central banking knowledge.
Over the years, SEACEN has built a wide network base, in that besides its members, the Centre has an outreach of 15 other central banks and monetary authorities which are invited for the Centre’s learning programmes, as well as 26 regional and international strategic partners with whom the Centre collaborates in the design and delivery of its programmes in central banking knowledge areas (Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy Management; Financial Stability and Supervision; and Payment and Settlement System, Leadership and Governance and Human Capital).
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