Senior Vice President, Chief Representative - Indonesia Representative Office

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, Chief Representative, Indonesia Representative Office to join our International Management team. This role is located in Jakarta, Indonesia.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Serve as BNY’s senior on-the-ground representative for the Indonesia Representative Office, helping strengthen BNY’s presence in the local market and supporting enterprise-wide engagement in a compliant and effective manner.
• Act as a key local connector for offshore business leaders by providing insights on market developments, commercial sentiment, stakeholder priorities, and the broader financial services environment in Indonesia.
• Build and maintain senior relationships with clients, market participants, industry bodies, counterparties, and other relevant stakeholders to enhance BNY’s market connectivity and strategic dialogue.
• Support offshore lines of business by identifying relevant trends, risks, and opportunities in Indonesia, enabling more informed decision-making and more targeted market engagement.
• Help connect Indonesia market dynamics with BNY’s global product, service, and relationship strategies, serving as a catalyst for collaboration across geographies and teams.
• Ensure all activities conducted through the representative office remain within the scope of applicable regulatory permissions, local legal requirements, and BNY’s internal policies and standards.
• Maintain timely and accurate local regulatory filings and serve as a key coordination point for local regulatory matters, internal governance requirements, audits, and control-related reviews.
• Coordinate and support in-country activities involving offshore teams, including senior leadership visits, stakeholder meetings, and other approved representative office activities, with strong attention to local context and execution excellence.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the representative office, including local vendors, facilities, budgets, and administrative support, while fostering a culture of professionalism, integrity, and inclusion.
• Represent BNY with sound judgment, credibility, and discretion as the senior-most representative in-country, while operating within the defined boundaries of a non-commercial representative office model.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required; advanced degree preferred.
• Significant experience in financial services, with strong exposure to international banking, market development, strategic relationship management, and cross-border stakeholder engagement.
• Strong understanding of the Indonesian financial services market, regulatory environment, and local business landscape, with the ability to translate market insight into strategic value for global teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted senior-level relationships internally and externally, while operating effectively in a complex, highly matrixed, and multicultural organization.
• Proven experience exercising sound judgment in regulated environments, with a strong focus on governance, controls, compliance, and reputation management.
• Strong commercial acumen paired with a clear understanding of role boundaries in a representative office structure; ability to enable and support offshore teams without directly engaging in prohibited commercial execution activities.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, manage multiple stakeholders, and drive disciplined follow-through.
• High integrity, energy, humility, and a hands-on approach, with the credibility and presence to represent BNY effectively in the local market.
• Prior experience managing or representing a foreign financial institution in Indonesia, or in a comparable regulated market-facing leadership role, is highly advantageous.
• Experience leading local office operations and mentoring or overseeing administrative or small in-country support teams is preferred.