E&C Risk Governance Lead

Job description

Selangor, Malaysia

**Job Family Group:**

Legal Jobs

**Worker Type:**

Regular

**Posting Start Date:**

October 17, 2025

**Business unit:**

Legal

**Experience Level:**

Experienced Professionals

**Job Description:**

**What’s the role**

You will be part of the Shell Ethics and Compliance Office (SECO) organisation, reporting to the VP of Ethics & Compliance (E&C) Data, Assurance & Risk Governance.

The SECO team culture is collaborative and supportive, with a strong focus on continuous improvement and ethical leadership.

This role is essential in ensuring an E&C risk management framework is in place, with effective and efficient governance processes and structures which add value and meet the requirements of the Shell Performance Framework.

**What you’ll be doing**

As the E&C Risk Governance Lead, you will have a multi-faceted role that has responsibility for managing and coordinating E&C risk management within SECO.

You will also use your risk management experience to develop and continually improve E&C risk management and reporting.

You will work with SECO, SME legal leadership and relevant business/functional teams to identify and document potential and existing E&C risks, aiding Chief Ethics & Compliance Officers (CECO's) risk reporting to Shell's senior stakeholders.

More specifically, your role will include:

+ Manages fit-for-purpose risk management processes to support E&C risk reporting to handle complex and usual business activities/issues.
+ Maintain the documentation of the E&C risk heatmap and ensures that there is a clear audit trail in decisions on risk management.
+ Monitors changes in the E&C risk environment and the effectiveness of actions taken to manage identified risks.
+ Supports the VP E&C data, assurance & risk governance in preparing input to the CECO reporting to the Executive Committee, Audit & Risk Committee and relevant business/functional leadership as it relates to E&C risk management.
+ Coordinates and works with E&C Managers on SECO risk reporting processes and outcomes.
+ Coordinates and delivers E&C reporting to support regulatory requirements.
+ Gains insights and works within SECO and legal SMEs and proactively stays abreast of external regulatory developments to identify emerging risk trends.

**What you bring**

You are keen to use your ability to understand E&C risks for Shell, to think strategically and act tactically and to inspire and influence stakeholders to improve E&C risk management.

Furthermore, you will have:

+ Degree in Risk management, Finance or equivalent.
+ Mastery of risk and control methodology and application in businesses/functions.
+ Mastery in preparing reporting for senior management up to Executive Committee (EC) level.
+ Ability to effectively challenge and influence whilst remaining commercially/bottom line focused.
+ A highly motivated, confident individual with exceptional multi -tasking capabilities able to work in a target driven, busy environment.
+ Excellent communication and negotiation skills - ability to influence and contribute at a senior Global level and across multiple stakeholders/partners.
+ Excellent listening skills with the ability to identify common trends and underlying problems.
+ Resilient personality with proven focus and determination.
+ Due to the global nature of the role, excellent English communication skills both written and verbal essential.
+ Ability to cultivate strong working relationships with stakeholders.
+ Superior leadership and organisation skills
+ Knowledge of the Shell Performance Framework; risk management, compliance programmes and control frameworks.
+ Knowledge of the Shell Ethics and Compliance Manual and related mandatory requirements.
+ Analytical and problem-solving skills.
+ Experience working in dynamic, ambiguous and pressured environments requiring personal integrity, courage, independence and resilience
+ Strong delivery focus – used to working and delivering to fixed timelines.

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**What we offer**

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another.

You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

+ Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
+ Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
+ Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
+ Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
+ Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
+ Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
+ Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
+ Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
+ Join an organization working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world.

We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
+ Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
+ international teams.
+ Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmed.

**We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies.

You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal,** click here (https://www.shell.com/who-we-are/diversity-equity-and-inclusion.html#iframe=L2RlaS8=) **.**

**Shell Business Operations (SBO) in Malaysia**

Shell Business Operations (SBO) is a chain of operational centers that form an integral part of Royal Dutch Shell.

We influence business development for Shell globally, enabling the work of 93,000 employees in over 70 countries across the world.

SBO Kuala Lumpur is home to 11 different functions that support Shell within the Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Middle East region.

Housing more than 2000 employees, SBO Kuala Lumpur is focused on driving excellent corporate performance that enable Shell to operate in a global competitive and ever-changing business environment.

Shell Business Operations (SBO) Kuala Lumpur is focused on driving excellent corporate performance in Contracting and Procurement, Creative Solutions, Customer Operations, Finance Operations, Human Resource, Information Technology, Legal Operations, Retail Centre of Excellence, Supply Chain, Technical Asset Operation and Upstream Transformation.

We enable Shell to operate in a global-competitive and ever-changing business environment

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Together at Shell, we are transitioning to become a net-zero emissions business while providing the energy that people around the world need today.

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