Director, Asia Pacific Head of Global Market

1 week ago

Singapore Bank of America Full time

Your background

  • Commitment to challenging the status quo and identifying risk issues within front to back processes
  • Proven experience in drafting communications and presentation materials intended for senior audiences and external bodies
  • Ability to influence outside of direct team, collaborate with different stakeholders, drive and implement changes to the risk and control environment
  • Strives to bring new thoughts and ideas to teams in order to drive solutions to risk issues and control gaps
  • Experienced manager and leader across a team located in different regions/countries
  • Selfstarter with the ability to influence, build trusted relationships, deal constructively with conflict, problem solve / troubleshoot issues for themselves and others, and adapt to a fastpaced environment involving multiple and simultaneous deliverable

Other Qualifications

  • Strives to bring new thoughts and ideas to teams in order to drive innovation and unique solutions
  • Excels in working among diverse viewpoints to determine the best path forward
  • Experience in connecting with a diverse set of clients to understand future business needs is a continuous learner
  • Commitment to challenging the status quo and promoting positive change.
  • Participate in and drive collaborative efforts to advance tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve an evolving client base
  • Believes in value of diversity so we can reflect, connect and meet the diverse needs of our clients and employees around the world

What you can expect


The Asia Pacific Head of Risk and Control for Global Market Operations (GMO), works within a global team and in close partnership with local LOB teams as well as second and third line of defense partners.

The role is highly visible and require frequent interaction with senior management and with key stakeholders, often as delegate for the APAC Regional Head of Global Market Operations.

The role will be responsible for managing the APAC Risk and Control Group ('APAC OR&C') located in Singapore reporting globally to the Head of Global Market Operations Risk & Control and regionally to the APAC Head of Global Market Operations.

The individual will be a also be a member of the APAC GMO management team and the Global GMO Risk & Control management team.


The Global Market Operations Risk & Control Function is aligned to provide a centralized risk model, driving consistency through end-to-end horizontal risk management and oversight functions, as well as vertical risk functions.

The vertical risk function provides dedicated risk expertise to support the lines of business and regions.

The horizontal risk function provides a centralized view of GMO Risk, support ad hoc initiatives and centralized resiliency planning, together with the oversight and support of regulatory requirements and corporate audits impacting GMO.


What you will do

  • Serve as a primary contact for daytoday risk support for all areas within APAC, including Equities, Fixed Income, Collateral, FX and derivatives and Asset Services providing guidance for all risk issues that arise.
  • Identify themes and carry out ad hoc assessments and deep dive reviews on emerging risk to identify risk and agree and oversee associated remediation plans. Present findings and opinions to senior management,
  • Management of all regulatory exams and inquiries within region which impact GMO working closely with Lines of business as well as Compliance and regulatory relations.
  • Management of internal and external audit exams/reviews and regulatory inspections as well as management of audit issues, operational events, privacy events and vendor management issues,
  • Management of the impact assessments for Law, Rules and Regulations, Enterprise policy assessments as well as any licensing, registration and attestations required by regulators across GMO
  • Be the regional point of contact for large scale cross product risk initiatives such as data management, record retention and nonfinancial regulatory reporting and drive resolution of the issues in region
  • Serve as a 'trusted advisor' to APAC GMO and GMO management on risk and control issues and requirements
  • Lead regional risk governance committees and routines and act as delegate for APAC GMO Head at other regional risk and governance forums

About Bank of America
Our purpose as a firm is to make financial lives better, through the power of every connection. Across the world, we partner with leading corporate and institutional investors through our offices in more than 35 countries. In the U.S. alone, we serve almost all of the Fortune 500 companies and approximately 67 million consumer and small-business clients. We provide a full suite of financial products and services, from banking and investments to asset and risk management.

We cover a broad range of asset classes, making us a global leader in corporate and investment banking, sales and trading.

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