Executive Director, Operational Risk

1 week ago

Singapore Aptitude Asia Full time

Our client, a well-established hedge fund, is looking to hire an Executive Director, Operational Risk & Trading Controls to join the APAC team and provide regional coverage. This is a senior individual contributor role, responsible for enhancing the firm's risk management practices and mitigating risk.

**Responsibilities**:

- Evaluate trading platforms and processes to pinpoint control deficiencies, propose suitable improvements, and automate routine tasks where feasible.
- Collaborate with trading leaders and operations executives to set control benchmarks and devise ways to assess control performance, such as through monitoring systems.
- Partner with operations teams to periodically examine and fine-tune pre
- and post-trade safeguards for optimal functionality.
- Create and roll out robust indicators for tracking key risks, along with producing routine reports for senior management on critical metrics and emerging risk patterns.
- Aid global operational risk colleagues in ongoing tasks like resiliency testing, business continuity planning, risk assessments, and targeted control validations, while ensuring compliance with local regulations through framework oversight.

**Job Requirements**
- Minimum 10 years in a 1st or 2nd line of defense role focused on business or trading controls, or risk management.
- In-depth familiarity with financial markets, including a thorough grasp of equity and/or commodities market frameworks.
- Demonstrated success in leading process improvements across trading, tech, and regulatory compliance teams.
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
- Solid comprehension of the full trading lifecycle, including related operational and resilience challenges
- Holder of a Bachelor's or higher degree in STEM or finance

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