About this Manager - Regional Wealth Management (Business Management) role at Hong Leong Bank
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Overview
The Business Manager acts as the strategic and execution support partner to the Head of Wealth Malaysia. Reporting directly to the Head of Wealth Malaysia, the role drives business planning, performance tracking, governance, stakeholder coordination, and strategic initiatives across the Wealth business. This position ensures senior leadership has strong visibility of performance, key priorities, risks, and execution progress, translating strategic direction into clear action plans across Wealth Management, Priority Banking, Bancassurance, Investment, Treasury, and Advisory functions.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Business Planning: Support the Head of Wealth in developing the Wealth Malaysia strategy (client growth, AUM, revenue, and product penetration); prepare annual business plans, board presentations, and track progress against key transformation initiatives.
- Performance Management and Analytics: Own the business performance rhythm by monitoring financial, sales, and RM productivity metrics; prepare regular performance dashboards and provide actionable insights to improve portfolio growth.
- Governance and Business Cadence: Ensure discipline across leadership meetings, monthly business reviews, and decision-making forums by managing agendas, tracking action deliverables, and monitoring timelines and escalation items.
- Strategic Initiatives and Transformation: Support the execution of core Wealth transformation initiatives (Priority growth/rebranding, digital wealth adoption, and advisory model enhancements) by coordinating workstreams, tracking milestones, and removing blockers.
- Stakeholder and Frontline Support: Serve as the key coordination point between the Head of Wealth and internal stakeholders by preparing briefing notes, talking points, and townhall materials; support frontline execution via sales campaign tracking and toolkits.
- Risk, Compliance and Deliverables: Monitor business risks, tracking regulatory, compliance, and audit action items; maintain proper governance records and consistently deliver weekly priority trackers, meeting minutes, and project updates.
Skills & Experience We Are Looking For:
- Possess Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Actuarial Science, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- More than 5 to 8 years of experience in banking, wealth management, strategy, business planning, or sales management, with an advantage if experienced in supporting senior leadership.
- Deep knowledge of affluent, priority, and HNW client segments, with direct experience in investment, bancassurance, wealth advisory, or branch distribution frameworks.
- Strong business and financial analysis skills with expert proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint to build data dashboards and executive-level presentations.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with a strong grasp of banking controls and risk compliance; comfortable engaging directly with senior executives and influencing cross-functional teams without authority.
About Hong Leong Bank
We are a leading financial institution in Malaysia backed by a century of entrepreneurial heritage. Providing comprehensive financial services guided by a Digital-at-the-Core ethos has earned us industry recognition and accolades for our innovative approach in making banking simpler and more effortless for our customers. Our digital and physical offerings span across a vast nationwide network in Malaysia, strengthened with an expanding regional presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.
We seek to strike a balance between diversity, inclusion and merit to achieve our mission of infusing diversity in thinking and skillsets into our organisation. Candidates are assessed based on merit and potential, in line with our mission to attract and recruit the best talent available. Expanding on our “Digital at the Core” ethos, we are progressively digitising the employee journey and experience to provide a strong foundation for our people to drive life-long learning, achieve their career aspirations and grow talent from within our organisation.
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