Avp/vp - Business Risk and Controls Management

**About The Department**
The Wholesale Bank function operates a dynamic business model that provides financial services
and solutions to help our clients achieve their strategic business objectives. Our mission is to
become the premier-provider of banking services and solutions for Asia-based commercial
banking companies (small medium enterprises), large corporations, financial institutions as well
as multinational corporations. Our coverage teams work in full alignment with specialised teams
across Transaction Banking, Investment Banking, Global Markets and Group Retail to deliver
seamless solutions to our clients.

**Responsibilities**:
following key responsibilities in Singapore and overseas locations:

- Provide effective challenge to internal stakeholders on existing controls.
- Review Business Units policies and guidelines.
- Work with multiple internal stakeholders to deliver desired outcomes.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders to identify priority areas for review based on control

criticality, emerging risks and regulatory focus.
- Formulate and strengthen governance on all risk frameworks, policy, framework, ensuring that

GWB comply with all applicable legislations, particularly in relation to anti-financial crimes.
- Review and identify key emerging risks in GWB and/or industry and propose risk mitigating

measures/controls.
- Ensure that potential risk issues highlighted by various Bank’s risk functions, such as Group

Compliance and Group Audit, are properly communicated and/or addressed within GWB.
- Identify and work with BU/GWB Data Analytics on risk management initiatives, thereby

increasing operational efficiencies and enhancing proactive risk identification.
- Support the Business Units/Support Units in risk identification, escalation and remediation.
- Monitor the effectiveness of the Business Units/Support Units controls (for example, through

risk culture/operational risks dashboards, audit reports and fair dealing scorecard).
- Ensure that GWB is kept abreast of the latest developments (including best practices), on both

the risk and regulatory front.
- Prepare risk management reports, as well as review and challenged GWB internal stakeholders

inputs to management reports.
- Provide administrative support to Team head by tracking progress of projects and arranging

meetings.
- Able to articulate and assist the team to prepare presentation slides.
- Conduct training where necessary.

**Job Requirements**
Education
- Good degree holder in Banking, Finance or Accounting
- Certification in anti-financial crimes, project management is preferred

**Experience and Skills**
- Degree or professional qualification in business or banking/financial services related areas
- Has minimum 5 years of relevant work experience preferably in audit, regulatory

compliance/Line 1 Risk and Control role in corporate banking/wholesale banking of a fullservice bank
- Proven and relevant experience in compliance of a financial services institution is required
- Good knowledge of anti-financial crimes, MAS Notice 626 regulations, AML typologies, risk

assessment, processes and controls
- Knowledge of local financial crime regulatory framework of South East Asia region and data

analytics would be a clear advantage.
- Team player, self-driven with strong interpersonal and communication skills and able to

perform well in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Growth mindset, i.e. openness to learn and take on other risks types
- Strategic mindset with the ability to have a holistic view for the Group
- Excellent communication (written, verbal) and interpersonal skills to positively influence

people to make the appropriate decisions and resolve conflicts effectively.
- Resourceful, meticulous, analytical and able to work independently with excellent verbal and

report-writing skills.
- Strong in creating presentation slides
- Strong administrative and project management skills.
- Strong analytical skills