Compliance and Company Secretary Jobs in HK

[Giri]

I am 27 year old compliance professional in India. I am a graduate in law and in Commerce. I am presently working as a Company Secretary and Compliance officer in a very renowned financial services company in Mumbai.

I have more than 3 years experience in Corporate Secretarial, legal and in regulatory compliances of nbfc (lending), housing finance, pension funds and insurance companies.

I wish to apply for jobs in HK in regulatory compliances to gain international exposure. Since CS in HK should have a degree of ICSA/HKICS I intend to complete my ICSA as being a CS from India I would be eligible for exemptions in most of the subjects.

I wish to have your advice on carrer prospects for CS and compliance jobs in HK and also immigration challenges if any.

I am aware that language is an important factor and would therefore be joining Mandarin classes this year.

[pat_togo]

Mandarin classes? To use in Hong Kong? I guess you still need to do some more research...

[Gruntfuttock]

The point being that Mandarin is not the primary language of Hong Kong.

[HKHK154]

Mandarin is useful in Hong Kong, though. Most of the time people can't understand if I say something in English, but they can understand if I say it in mandarin.

You can also learn to read some of the characters if you learn Mandarin. Simplified vs Traditional is a bit of a bitch sometimes (U can pick which you want to learn..), but a lot of them are similar or the same. Learning basic stuff like 'toilet' 'man' 'woman' 'name' 'phone number' blah blah helps immensely.

I wouldn't bother even trying to learn Cantonese until after you are here and that's only if you want to stay for a long time. You should be able to pick up some basic phrases fairly quickly if you are not a dork.

Don't get me wrong I think Cantonese is a cooler sounding language.. but just usefulness. You are not going to be able to learn enough Chinese to make it useful in a business context anyway so just go for the basic mandarin.

[Giri]

Mandarin is useful in Hong Kong, though. Most of the time people can't understand if I say something in English, but they can understand if I say it in mandarin.

You can also learn to read some of the characters if you learn Mandarin. Simplified vs Traditional is a bit of a bitch sometimes (U can pick which you want to learn..), but a lot of them are similar or the same. Learning basic stuff like 'toilet' 'man' 'woman' 'name' 'phone number' blah blah helps immensely.

I wouldn't bother even trying to learn Cantonese until after you are here and that's only if you want to stay for a long time. You should be able to pick up some basic phrases fairly quickly if you are not a dork.

Don't get me wrong I think Cantonese is a cooler sounding language.. but just usefulness. You are not going to be able to learn enough Chinese to make it useful in a business context anyway so just go for the basic mandarin.

You are completely right. I rather believe that it is next to impossible to study Cantonese in any other country except hk sar. I bet if your find any Cantonese language courses in India whereas India China Chamber of Commerce does conduct Mandarin language course here. Further with growth of chinese economy there would be greater demand for Mandarin.

Anyways thanks for your views.