Total 45 job vacancies by The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited

Job Purpose

To strengthen the in-house actuarial capability in the area of general insurance and provide actuarial support to general insurance business.

The Job

· Performs valuation and assist in preparation of reserve review reports

· Supports implementation of target operating model for IFRS 17, including the assessment of insurance reserves, profit and loss.

· Collaborates with internal/ external stakeholders to price and develop GI products.

· Provide pricing guidance and review support across entities.

· Assists the Company in driving the GI business through experience and profitability analysis on various business lines.

· Performs business projections for business planning, stress scenario construction and stress testing under both RBC and IFRS 17 basis.

· Supports Reinsurance (RI) related assessment, such as optimal RI assessment, RI accounting and financial reporting.

· Develops and enhances in-house statistical capability using SAS software, which includes:

a) Periodic data preparation for valuation and pricing

b) Assist in the financial management of the general business

c) Support business units by generating required reports

· Provide technical support on other general insurance related matters, such as marketing, underwriting and claims management

· Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

· Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.

· Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

· Degree in Actuarial or relevant fields, and good progress in Actuarial examinations

· Excellent in statistical analysis, problem solving and communication skills

· Proficient in MS Excel and good knowledge of statistical packages and strong interest in programming (e.g SAS, SQL, VBA, Prophet)

· Familiar with general insurance, RBC2, reinsurance structures, IFRS17, and AS400 system data structure will be an advantage

· At least 5 years of relevant working experience

· Demonstrates alignment with the organisation’s core values through expected behaviours

· High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

· Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

You will be responsible for planning and executing IT audits for the Great Eastern Group of Companies. You will also assist the Singapore Chief Internal Auditor, Group Internal Audit, to provide an independent and objective assurance to improve the Group’s IT control environment.

You are self-motivated, a good team player with initiative, who is keen to explore a career switch opportunity and willing to be challenged. We are open to candidates with experience in IT Security/Operations, application development and career auditors to discuss this opportunity.

The Job

· Participate or lead in the planning and execution of audit assignments to ensure quality and timeliness of reports and deliverables;

· Develop risk-based audit plans and testing programs;

· Ensure coverage of relevant regulatory requirements and recommend improvements to corporate policies, procedures and practices to enhance IT control design and enforcement;

· Support business audits through integrated or thematic audits by providing technology expertise and evaluating IT controls supporting the business operations;

· Manage or participate in other ad-hoc assignments including special projects and investigations;

· Contribute to continuous monitoring of technology risk areas. Establish and maintain strong relationship with technology stakeholders including risk management and control groups;

· Assist in the follow-up with auditees on outstanding audit findings through the issuance of Audit Tracking Report and verification of resolved findings;

· Ensure that audit operating standards and procedures are observed, and requirements of the Quality Assurance Review are met; and

· Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

· Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.

· Highlights any potential observations /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

· 5 - 7 years of relevant experience in IT security governance, IT Infrastructure/Cybersecurity/outsourcing operations, Technology Risk Management in banking or FI;

· Knowledge or exposure to cybersecurity controls, infrastructure technology (i.e. cloud security, network, virtualization), ethnical hacking, application security, API, micro services and secure coding standards;

· Familiar with the regulatory requirements specific to technology risk management (e.g. MAS, RMiT, OJK);

· Good report writing, communication and presentation skills;

· Complete audit work papers and reports with minimal intervention by the audit manager/team lead;

· Provide continuous monitoring of technology areas, engage technology control partners to upkeep with the changing IT risk landscape of the group;

· Attention to details to ensure completeness and accuracy of audit coverage;

· Strong analytical skill, time management, independent and collaborative;

· Able to interact well with all levels of staff;

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, Accounting, preferably hold one or more of these professional certifications (e.g. CISA, CISM, CEH, CISSP, CCSP);

· High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork;

· Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

· Self-motivated and takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes; and

· Able to travel overseas when required and safe to do so (10% estimated).

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

We are looking for an aspiring actuary to join our actuarial General Insurance (GI), Group, and Accident & Health (A&H) team. Reporting to the Head of GI and A&H Pricing, you will be leading a dynamic team of actuaries and assist the company in the managing of the GI, Group and A&H portfolio. This includes product pricing, product development, and monitoring of products. Provide actuarial support to actuarial valuation team, and General, Group and A&H businesses.

The Job

· Product pricing and data analysis, bydeveloping and enhancing in-house statistical capability, which includes:

- Design and develop pricing models that meet internal and regulatory requirement;

- Design and perform data analysis with the aim of providing actionable insights, as well as setting pricing assumptions;

- Periodic profitability study and experience analysis

- Assist in the financial management of the business, including reinsurance program review

- Support business units by generating relevant reports for monitoring and tracking purposes

· Collaborate with internal/ external stakeholders to price and develop GI, Group and A&H products. This includes:

- Collaborating with internal stakeholders on the design and pricing of the products; and

- Work closely with underwriters and claims managers to integrate new product features and improvement in processes into their day to day operational activities.

- Provide technical support on other related matters, such as marketing, underwriting, claims management and system development

· General Insurance regional involvement to provide pricing guidance and review support across entities

· Assisting the Company in driving the GI, Group and A&H business through experience and profitability analysis on various business lines.

· Play a leading role in actuarial pricing related projects, and supporting the business units in achieving their key performance indicators.

· Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

· Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.

· Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

· Degree Holder in Actuarial or Statistics

· A qualified/ near qualified Actuary

· 6 years or above in relevant actuarial roles.

· Experience working closely with underwriting, claims and product developers.

· Experience in project management and presenting financials to management.

· In depth knowledge of GI, Group, A&H insurance products and actuarial practice.

· Excellent in statistical analysis, problem solving and communication skills

· Proficient in MS Excel

· Good knowledge of statistical packages and strong interest in programming (e.g. SAS, SQL, VBA, Prophet)

· Familiar with IP Shield, General Insurance products, reinsurance structures, AS400 system data structure, RBC2, IFRS17 and Prophet programming will be an advantage

· High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

· Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

The Fund Transfer Pricing (FTP) and Capital Management team establish and maintain the FTP framework of Great Eastern Life, ensuring it aligns with the company's financial strategy, and set appropriate transfer prices for various functions. The team also implements the company's capital strategies to optimise the capital structure and overall financial health of Great Eastern Life.

The Job

1. Capital Management:

- Monitor the company’s liquidity and capital position to ensure solvency and compliance with regulatory requirements.

- Implement capital management strategies to optimize the company's capital structure.

- Participate in annual capital planning exercise, collaborate with various business units (in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) to assess capital needs, align business and product strategies, and identify risks and opportunities associated with the capital projection.

- Analyze and forecast the company's capital and solvency position.

- Participate in Business Planning and Group Stress Testing and project the investment returns and assets-related risk charges.

- Support the company’s financial reporting.

- Construct and manage the company’s Matching Adjustment portfolios.

2. Fund Transfer Pricing (FTP):

- Develop and maintain the company's FTP framework, ensuring alignment with the company's overall financial strategy and insurance value creation chain.

- Apply the FTP framework and attribute total comprehensive income into various functions such as investment and ALM.

- Report and monitor the FTP performance to continuously optimize the risk and return of the balance sheet through clear accountability and segregation of responsibilities.

- Ensure transparency and accuracy in FTP reporting to senior management and relevant stakeholders.

· Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

· Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.

· Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

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Our Requirements

· Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial science, Mathematics, Finance, or a related field.

· 4 to 6 years of experience in actuarial related roles, with a focus on capital management and/or valuation.

· Good progress in professional actuarial qualification (e.g., FSA, FIA, or equivalent).

· In-depth knowledge of capital requirements and accounting standards for insurers in Singapore, and familiarity with trends in capital requirements and accounting standards for insurers globally.

· Strong problem solving and analytical skills.

· Familiar with Data Analytics tools such as Python and SQL.

· Demonstrates alignment with the organisation’s core values through expected behaviours.

· High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

· Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

The successful candidate will be part of the IFRS 17 systems team as a Senior Finance System Engineer. The key role to be performed is to elicit and analyse business requirements, supports System Integration Test (SIT), support Users’ Acceptance Test (UAT) and maintain IFRS 17 systems for business-as-usual.

The Job

1) Contribute to the IFRS 17 systems team:

· Facilitate / conduct workshops for business users to identify project requirements. Gather, analyse, document and follow up on user requirements.

· Based on the requirements, generate artefacts needed for solution generation. These artefacts include – mapping documents, requirements for integration/interface specifications, site-map and page-flow, and the usage of UML diagrams to detail the process flow and solution.

· Understanding the core IFRS17 requirements, software solution and how to implement this within Great Eastern Finance and Actuarial business teams.

· Build an understanding on IFRS17 systems and configuration in order to support the business needs.

· Ability to analyse and pull out data from database to analyse situations and defects and suggest improvements.

· Writes requirements mapping document for IFRS17 solution product - inbound interface requirements document

· Designs and implements unit test cases and expected results

· Assembles System Test cases and expected results

· Investigates System Test, Integration Test and UAT defects

· Support users during User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regular tracking of test progress status and defect management.

· Maintain IFRS17 software for business-as-usual, supporting Great Eastern Finance and Actuarial business teams

· Defects analysis

· Develop IFRS17 and insurance-specific SME knowledge for group-wide knowledge management.

2) Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

3) Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.

4) Highlight any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems or Finance / Insurance degree.

• Certified pertaining to Business Analysis (CBAP or equivalent).

• Certified Agile / Scrum practitioner will be an added advantage

• Minimum 5 years working experience in IT and experience handling projects or BAU in Insurance

• core systems or Finance systems.

• Experience in implementing or handling core Insurance systems or experience in financial reporting systems.

• Experience in handling inbound and outbound interfaces between upstream or downstream systems.

• Comfortable with handling data analysis via database queries - Oracle SQL, PL/SQL database to support business, testing, troubleshooting etc

• Good Insurance domain knowledge

• Strong knowledge and experience of insurance products is key

• Relational database understanding

• Financial reporting domain knowledge would be an added advantage

• Project working experience or good understanding of IFRS17 is an advantage.

• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) combines software development and system leading to build and run distributed solutions in a secured multi-tier heterogeneous environment to safeguard, provide and continuously improve the software and systems behind the organization’s cloud platform solutions.

The Job

· Work closely with Cloud Portfolio Director and the Cloud Engagement Lead to derive and implement a technical roadmap that is align with the IT architecture and cloud strategy.

· Work closely with a team of engineers of different domains to implement new and enhanced services the cloud platform.

· Be the solution engineer for the cloud platform, which includes new services via IaC on IaaS across Hybrid Cloud.

· Leverages on software as the primary tool to optimizing systems, building infrastructure and removing mundane work through automation. Scale sustainably via automation and evolve services/solutions, leveraging IaaS across hybrid cloud to drive changes that improves reliability and velocity.

· Engages in and improves the full lifecycle of cloud platform solutions from design, deployment, operation and refinement with accuracy and in compliance with organization policies and security requirements.

· Automate repetitive tasks and optimize cloud operations.

· Support services before go-live through activities like system design consulting, developing software platforms and launch reviews. Maintain post-live cloud operations by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health with any prompt and remediate actions.

· Support cloud adoption including new system and legacy system migration from traditional infrastructure to GEL Cloud platform

· Deploy product updates as required while implementing integrations when they arise. Specifying, documenting and developing new product features, and writing automating scripts.

· Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

· Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.

· Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

· Strong hands on experience with using and designing VMware Cloud Foundry solution including NSX-T, vRealize Suite, vSphere/vCenter is mandatory.

· Strong hands on experience with using and designing Public Clouds (AWS, GCP or Azure) landing zone and infrastructure layer

· Strong working experience on patch management for operating systems and middleware is mandatory. Eg, Windows, RedHat, Websphere, Weblogic, MSSQL etc.

· Hands on experience with creation and maintenance of VMware server templating/blueprints such as RedHat, Windows server templates.

· Hands on experience with infrastructure-as-code, orchestration, configuration management and provisioning tools is mandatory.

· Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communications skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

· Strong experience in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment with strong appreciation of change/version control process and methodologies.

· Worked with DevOps and Automation tools (E.g. Selenium, SOAPUI, Bamboo, Jenkins, Ansible, Marvin, Github, Bitbucket, Nexus, Jira, Confluence etc).

· Must code, debug and optimize code and automate mundane tasks.

· Experience in scripting languages such as Bash, Batch, Powershell, YAML etc.

· Experience implementing distributed solutions in a secured multi-tier heterogeneous environment is mandatory.

· High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

· Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

This role will provide technical support in the solution, design, development, Implementation and maintenance of the Great Eastern Enterprise Stream Processing Platform.

The Job

· Involves in architecture, design & development of distributed messaging system/streaming platform.

· Assists in the design and implementation of our Kafka application architecture.

· Designs, build and maintain Kafka topics, producers and consumers for new and existing applications to help facilitate development team onboard Kafka. Help educate teams on Kafka standard practices.

· Contributes to the tuning and architecture with a strong understanding of related Kafka Connect and Linux fundamentals.

· Monitors and observes Kafka health metrics and alerts, taking action proactively and in a timely manner

· Supports all planned maintenance activities, BAU activities for Kafka Platform including any emergency maintenance.

· Performs upgrades for Kafka Platform.

· Implements standard security practices for securing Kafka platform

· Contributes to the technical vision, architecture and implementation for our streaming platform; including CI/CD, Self-Service Interfaces, Feature Development and Continuous Delivery.

· Develops Utility Services & Reusable Asset Library:

a) Build and document components, code or other assets that can be leveraged by project teams. Includes value-added services that are non-BU specific and might otherwise be redundantly developed and maintained by each area.

· Performs Unit Testing and Support Integration Testing

· Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

· Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.

· Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

· 8+ years of overall experience in professional IT/Software engineering.

· At least 3+ years of hands-on experience with managing distributed messaging systems, like multiple Kafka clusters.

· Extensive experience in working with Kafka ecosystem (Kafka Brokers, Kafka Connect, Zookeeper) in production (open source or enterprise distributions).

· Exposure to Confluent stack (Confluent ksqlDB, Rest Proxy, Schema Registry, Control Centre) will be highly appreciated.

· 2+ years of experience in administration and configuration of Apache Kafka or Confluent Kafka platform.

· Have experienced in the development and deployment of Apache Kafka and middleware automation for enterprise wide consumption.

· Have experienced using Bitbucket, Bamboo, Nexus, Kibana, Elastic Search, FileBeat.

· Have experienced & knowledge on implementing various security standards (TLS, mTLS, PKI, Encryptions, Authentication, Authorization) used in securing Kafka clusters.

· Experienced or working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Spring Boot, Java.

· Have implemented & well versed with digital/internet web technologies like RESTful Web Services, SOAP Web Services, ESB, JSON, XML, JSON Schemas, XML Schemas, HTML5, HTTP, FTP and JavaScript.

· Good to have experience in JMS messaging technologies such as IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ etc.

· Prefer with Banking or Insurance industry experience.

· Adaptable to fast-pace environment, self-driven and result-oriented. Good team player with good interpersonal skills and able to work independently and possess initiative.

· High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

· Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

The candidate will be part of the Regional IFRS data integration team to build a base IFRS17 solution for Great Eastern Life (GEL) Group that will be used by all GEL entities (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia). The candidate is expected to deliver quality work with compliance to our Group IT processes and standards.

The Job

Key responsibilities and duties:

· Deploy and maintain Hadoop CDP cluster

· Monitor connectivity and health of Hadoop services

· Analyze storage data volume and allocate space in HDFS

· Resource management of the cluster

· Add and decommission data nodes

· Configure NameNode and ensure high availability

· Granting of access through Ranger

· Assist in capacity planning

· Assist with performance tuning and execution of jobs

· Deploy, monitor and terminate CDP PaaS clusters on AWS

· Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

· Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.

· Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

a) Qualifications

• Tertiary education, preferably in computing or engineering
• Cloudera administrator certifications
• AWS Cloud certifications

b) Working Experience / skill sets required

· 3+ years working experience administering Hadoop clusters (HDP, CDH, CDP)

· Proficient in Unix shell scripting

· Experience CDP Public cloud preferred

· Experience in python scripting preferred

· Experience installing Hadoop cluster preferred

c) Competencies

· High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

· Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

· Adapt to new technologies and willingness to learn.

· Pro-active and positive attitude.

· Ability to multi-task.

· Knowledge of computing, software design, use of parameterization, database and security concepts.

· Good communication & collaboration skills.

· Good Analytic & Problem solving skills.

· Good knowledge of best practices of data related or coding disciplines.

· Familiar with regulatory, security and industry guidelines.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

This role will be responsible to manage the network technical resources (this may include networking devices, firewalls, link load balancers, network monitoring, load balancers/ traffic managers, network inventory, configuration settings and files), and be responsible to provide network infrastructure solutions, delivery and support for the group. This role will be required to manage the day to day activities of the equipment. This role will also work closely with GEL partners, vendors and service providers to manage the overall IT network operations including infrastructure operations and the underlying technologies.

The Job

• Manage (add, maintain and decommission network devices when required)
• Monitor the health of network devices
• Provide technical assistance, support and remediation across all the network devices
• Manage and Backup configuration files and settings
• Analysis of infrastructure and capacity planning for future projects/growth.
• Apply patches, firmware upgrades and bug fixes necessary to maintain the safe and reliable operations of the network infrastructure and devices
• Facilitating meetings with various technical teams as well as third party vendors.
• Plan and lead network performance, stress and other testing on the network infrastructure landscape.
• Work with the infrastructure teams to ensure 100% system uptime and availability
• Manage and execute system/application installation, patching, rollouts, releases and upgrades
• Troubleshooting and resolving network infrastructure related issues
• Maintain inventory list and network devices, network topology documentation
• Manage and maintain the enterprise monitoring system for network devices
• Adhere to GEL operation processes and procedures, aligned to the GEL group’s processes and standards, (ITMP, ITSS, TSS and etc)
• Manage and maintain the network devices to meet SLA
• Manage and maintain network connectivity links
• Work with vendors, partners and service providers to maintain SLA, resolve issues and assess root cause for remediation
• Participate in GEL DR and BCP planning, exercises and execution
• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT or Diploma with Professional Certifications.
• At least 5 years relevant experience successfully managing and deployment of network solutions or IT systems implementation and integration.
• Experience working with multiple infrastructure teams, project teams (business, IT application and infrastructure teams).
• Excellent network troubleshooting skills using various devices, brands and toolsets.
• Strong technical understanding of any three of the following:
• Networking and TCPIP
• Routing and Switching
• IT Security devices, including firewalls
• CASB solutions
• Network Access Control Solutions
• Load balancers
• Link load Balancers
• Intrusion Prevention Systems or Intrusion Detection Systems
• Monitoring and alerting solutions
• Network authentication solutions
• Ability to understand business processes and financial functions a plus
• Strong oral and technical documentation skills
• Experience with leading performance, stress and capacity testing is a plus.
• Analytical and intuitive to recognize non-perfoming or/and to realize the broader implications of project success or failures from the interdependencies in the portfolio
• Excellent communicator with strong influencing skill set and able to manage conflicts
• Team player who can lead in brainstorm session with peers to problem solve and make decisions
• Self-driven with a positive attitude to champion for culture change management initiatives within IT and with interfacing Business stakeholders
• Ability to motivate and enthuse mixed teams to ensure Service delivery and maximise the customer’s experience.
• Ability to work with virtual teams from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

Job Purpose

To manage Policy Administration System related projects, enhancements, program fixes to support the business-as-usual operations, product launches and new initiatives

The Job

· Manage and direct the project team to deliver projects by meeting the baseline scope, cost and schedule

· Ensure the deliverables and the work assignment are meeting the planned schedule for all major and light releases and quality requirements

· Proactively manage changes in scope, cost and schedule and obtain necessary approval of any major changes when scope, cost or timeline are at risk

· Ensure project’s activities and deliverables are in compliance with project management and change processes (including project reporting requirements)

· Ensure all audit issues and project risks are managed to meet resolution deadlines

· Possess ability to manage various stakeholders from senior management team to project team members, subject matter expert, third party vendor, contractor and business user

· Contribute to improving the overall Risk / Security Posture

· Embrace and inculcate the IT department set of visions, missions, values

· Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

· Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.

· Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

· Preferable Degree in Computer Science, Business Information System, Insurance or related field.

· Professional certification in Project Management such as PMP will be an added advantage

· Minimum 6 years working experience with at least 2 years as a Project Manager

· Proven track record in leading and managing a team of developers, business analysts, vendors or contractors

· Experience in Insurance domain will be added advantage.

· Ability to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment with minimum direction and management oversight.

· Strong leadership, problem solving, planning & organizing, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.

· High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

· Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

You are required to provide underwriting support for all product lines in New Business Underwriting (NBU)

The Job

• Underwrite new applications for Life, Accident and Health, disability income and long term care proposals
• Countersign and provide guidance to junior underwriters
• Provide underwriting advice & support for financial planners through e-booking, emails, phone calls
• Provide critical liaison and build strong business relationship between NBU and distribution channels
• Conduct underwriting training for distribution channels
• Project management, e.g. reviewing underwriting guidelines, reviewing & streamlining work processes to support business operations
• Ensure all department KPIs are achieved
• Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and take appropriate steps to mitigate the risks
• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company
• Highlight any potential concerns/ risks and proactively share best risk management practices

Our Requirements

• Degree with at least 5 years’ experience in underwriting Life, Accident and Health risks
• Non-degree holders who have relevant experience or certification in underwriting may be considered
• Good team player with strong analytical skills & ability to work under pressure
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Literacy in both English and Chinese language (both oral & written)
• High level of integrity, take accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork
• Take initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

As part of the Financial Risk Management team within Group Risk Management, you will be part of the team responsible for developing and implementing models used for managing various financial risks of the Group. This role will provide you with on the job exposure to financial risk management within Great Eastern, which is the largest insurer in the Singapore market.

The Job

• Develop and implement Stochastic Asset and Liability Management (“ALM”) models for various risk related analysis such as solvency management and strategic asset allocations;
• Calibrate real world as well as risk neutral models (interest rates, credits, equities etc.) and generate stochastic economic scenarios for risk and valuation purposes;
• Build and streamline limits monitoring tools including the automation of derivatives and limits reports.
• Assist in the implementation of risk analytics platform such as MSCI and other enterprise business intelligence tools for risk management purposes;
• Ad hoc financial risk management assignments.
• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

• At least 7 years of relevant experience in quantitative model development, risk analytics, financial risk management or other similar fields in a financial institution;
• Good university degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Financial Engineering etc.) with a strong ability of handling data and performing quantitative analysis;
• Familiar with the main risk drivers and valuation of various financial instruments including derivatives using Monte Carlo and other numerical methods;
• Knowledge of life/general insurance and machine learning models is a plus;
• Proficient in commonly used programming languages such as Python, R and SQL; and
• Strong team player with good written and verbal communication skills.
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

The candidate is expected to work on the Regional IFRS17 Programme as a Data Mapper cum Business Analyst. The Programme is implementing solutions for compliance with the International Financial Reporting Standards for Insurance Industry which the Company targets to go live in January 2023 for Singapore & Malaysia entities and 2 years later for Indonesia entities.

The candidate’s key role to be performed in the SDLC is to elicit and analyse data requirements, provide technical translation to business requirements captured in mapping documents for Extract Transform and Load (ETL), conduct System Integration Test (SIT), and support Users’ Acceptance Test (UAT) and user training. The candidate is also expected to follow our Group IT Application Processes, Standards & Procedures.

The Job

· Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.

· Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.

· Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

· Facilitate / conduct workshops for business users to identify project requirements. Gather, analyse, document and follow up on user requirements.

· Perform data mapping from source to target data fields by understanding the core IFRS17 requirements, software solution and how to implement this within Great Eastern Finance and Actuarial business teams.

· Based on the requirements, generate artefacts needed for solution generation. These artefacts include – Data Mapping specification for ETL purposes, integration/interface specifications, site-map and page-flow, and the usage of UML diagram to detail the process flow and solution.

· Build an understanding on IFRS17 product and configuration in order to support the business during configuration and build phase. Ability to analyse and pull out data from database to analyse situations to support configuration.

· Work with IFRS17 solution vendor on System Unit testing.

· Hands on planning and execution of functional test cases, perform execution of System Integration Test (SIT) cutting across source data teams and outbound systems.

· Support users during User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regular tracking of test progress status and defect management.

· Develop IFRS17 and contribute towards insurance-specific SME knowledge for group-wide knowledge management

Our Requirements

a) Qualifications

· Degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems or Finance / Insurance degree

· Certified Business Analysis (CBAP or equivalent)

· Certified Agile / Scrum practitioner will be an added advantage

b) Working Experience

· Minimum 4-5 years working experience in IT preferably in Insurance industry and experience handling projects or BAU in Insurance core systems or Finance systems

· Minimum 3 years ETL data mapping experience in Insurance domain and Financial reporting systems

· Strong understanding of how legacy systems relate/interface with each other

· Ability to translate business requirements documentation into data requirements and source-to-target data mappings

· Understanding of data models and ETL processing

· Familiarity with application programming and data model design processes

· Experience in using SQL to profile data prior to mapping

· Comfortable with handling data analysis via database queries – Hive SQL query execution on Hadoop platform

· Working knowledge of Oracle SQL, PL/SQL database added advantage to support business, testing, troubleshooting etc

· Must be able to provide Sample data mapping documents

· Experience in Data Warehouse a plus

· Good understanding of IFRS4 or IFRS17 is an advantage

· Good Insurance domain knowledge and knowledge of insurance products is preferred

c) Competencies

· Must possess excellent business oriented analytical skills

· Strong oral and written communication skills

· Organized with an eye for detail

· Team player and must be able work with cross IT and business teams

· Ability to multitask across different assigned tasks

· Fast learner to quickly understand new concepts

· High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

· Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

You will be part of the Group Data Management & Governance Office, specifically in the area of Enterprise Data Governance and Data Management.

You will be running programs and initiatives to raise the data literacy and risk awareness across the Group, and enhance the controls and value of our data asset. You will have to design and establish data governance or data management programs and initiatives to steer, drive the organization towards data driven, and enable innovations while preserving the confidentiality of data.

The Job

• Design, develop and maintain data governance artefacts (e.g. framework, policies, standards and guidelines) to ensure relevancy and up-to-date to meet the organization’s strategic objectives and business needs.
• Design and execute communication strategy and initiatives to raise the overall data literacy and data control obligations across the Group to enable intelligent workforce.
• Steer the BU & SU to achieve their goals in a compliance, effective and efficient manner using data and technology.
• Perform process reviews and work with stakeholders to streamline and embed controls onto business processes enabling appropriate usage of data by authorized personnel
• Perform oversight and support country and subsidiaries to ensure alignment of governance practices and standards.
• Strategize to shift mindset and embed data obligations and accountabilities into everyone’s day to day activities, and to develop self-service data culture to improve overall business efficiency.
• Support Data Governance Committee as a member of the secretariat.
• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks;
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company; and
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.
• Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned.

Our Requirements

• Degree from recognized tertiary institution with at least 10 years of working experience with at least 3 years of hands-on experience in data governance, and/or data management (such experience within Insurance or financial Industry advantageous)
• Experience in conducting investigations, or compliance assessments preferred;
• Risk management experience an added advantage;
• Detail oriented and analytical, with good problem solving, project management and organizational skills.
• Good understanding of the principles and key controls of various data management disciplines, e.g. master/reference data management, data quality management.
• Strong change management skills and/or experience in organization transformation programs.
• Good team spirit, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
• Strong written, oral communication and interview skills.
• Keen interest in business process modelling and re-engineering, preferably with Design Thinking or Lean Six Sigma certification.
• Exposure and understanding on data, architecture diagrams and up-to-date on data and technology landscape (e.g. Hadoop, cloud, data warehouse, AI and ML)
• Maintain awareness of regulatory, data and technology trends and movements across the market and industry.
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork; and
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Job Purpose

You will be part of a team to drive and implement the Compliance Risk Management Framework and compliance requirements for all GE entities within the Group, by effectively supporting the business units in their duty to comply with relevant laws and regulations.

The Job

• Provide compliance advisory on regulatory requirements to business units; and be involved in new initiatives/projects to understand business units’ concerns/needs and provide accurate and practical compliance advice to address regulatory, industry and Group requirements;
• Provide oversight and support to the local entities on general compliance matters/Group initiatives, including localisation of Group policies, standards and guidelines where required;
• Liaise, engage and provide support to parent company in their oversight of entities. Work with various stakeholders on regulatory related matters, information requests and regulators’ queries promptly;
• Assess the impact of new/revised regulatory updates (including Consultation Papers) and conduct impact and gap analysis on these updates. Partner with Business Units on the implementation;
• Responsible to review the compliance event reporting (“CER”) from business units and local entities. This would include monitoring of the timely CER submission by business units and tracking of resolutions on action plans;
• Roll out Compliance Requirement Self Assessments (“CRSAs”) for applicable laws and regulations to the respective business units and work with the business unit to implement the required compliance controls. This would include to ensure the CRSA is finalised and signed off in a timely manner and tracking the resolutions of action plans when gaps are identified;
• Assist with the annual Compliance Requirement Self Assessments (“CRSAs”) for applicable laws and regulations. Work with business units to identify gaps, remediation actions and track action plans till closure in a timely manner;
• Responsible for the preparation and co-ordination work for compliance related matters, which shall include arrangement for the management meetings, preparation of meeting materials/ compliance related reports, information gathering and other administrative matters;
• Carry out ad-hoc tasks/projects as requested by the immediate Supervisor and/or Head of Group Regulatory Compliance;
• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks;
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company; and
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

• Bachelor Degree, preferably in Business, Insurance or Finance related fields;
• Minimum 5 – 8 years working experience in the area of compliance/internal audit in the financial services industry;
• Sound knowledge of regulatory and industry requirements relating to the insurance/financial industry such as Insurance Act, Financial Advisers Act, MAS Notices/guidelines, Life Insurance Association guidelines etc;
• Lead initiatives;
• Self-motivated and driven;
• Meticulous, good analytical and problem solving skills;
• Good communication and interpersonal skills;
• Able to multi-task and work under pressure;
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude;
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.
• Able to work independently and collaboratively;
• Proactive, resourceful and able to handle difficult situations;
• Ability to build relationship with internal and external stakeholders; and
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience in regulatory compliance.

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.