Regional Privacy Officer, Asia Pacific

• The Regional Privacy Officer, APAC is responsible for the management of the data protection and privacy function across all businesses and segments in the region to ensure:
  • Enable proactive and efficient management of privacy risks across the APAC region.
  • Promote a consistent approach to privacy risk and behaviours in collaboration with the Global Privacy Office and Privacy Officers across RBC entities and local Compliance.
  • Identify and implement efficiencies in privacy risk management, in particular balancing country or business specific requirements with the global Privacy Risk Management program.
  • Oversight and implementation of RBC global and local Privacy Policies and Standards.
  • Provide guidance, challenge and oversight to the RBC APAC businesses to ensure privacy best practice.
  • Drive the privacy aspects of the RCM program for the RBC APAC businesses.
  • Provide quarterly reporting information and escalation of key privacy issues.
  • Central point of contact for privacy projects that cover multiple businesses or jurisdictions.
  • Oversee information in the PRM Governance tools such as Processing Activity Risk Assessment (PARA) and the incident reporting system for quality and completeness for regional legal entities.
  • Oversight of privacy incidents and breaches, including coordinating with local Compliance Officers where regulator or client notification is required.
  • Engage in and support projects on local privacy matters as required.

• Program Support:
  • Support the program in demonstrably meeting the highest principles of significant international legislative and regulatory developments.
  • Ensure appropriate policies and procedures are in place to govern local requirements.
  • Ensure privacy risk is documented and managed globally in accordance with the Regulatory Compliance Management framework.
  • Ensure adequate and appropriate accountability is demonstrably anchored in the first line businesses and functions.
  • Complete enterprise self-assessments on privacy risk, and design and facilitate business and function privacy risk assessments.
  • Provide strategic input on program, structure, tool and process enhancements.

Job Skills

Audits Compliance, Critical Thinking, Data Gathering Analysis, Decision Making, Financial Regulation, Industry Knowledge, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Product Services, Risk Management, Strategic Thinking

Additional Job Details

PERSIARAN IRC 2, IOI RESORT CITY IOI CITY TOWER ONE:PUTRAJAYAPutrajayaMalaysia40Full timeCHIEF LEGAL & ADMIN OFFICE GRPRegularSalaried2026-03-272026-04-03

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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