Associate, Technology Risk

Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department
- Technology Risk & Business Resilience
- Job posted on
- Dec 10, 2024
- Employment type
- Permanent - Full Time

Singlife is a leading homegrown financial services company offering consumers a better way to financial freedom. Through innovative, technology-enabled solutions and a wide range of products and services, Singlife provides consumers control over their financial wellbeing at every stage of their lives.

In addition to a comprehensive suite of insurance plans, employee benefits, partnerships with financial adviser channels and bancassurance, Singlife offers investment and advisory solutions through its GROW with Singlife platform. It also offers the Singlife Account, a mobile-first insurance savings plan.

Singlife is the exclusive insurance provider for the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Officers Group Insurance Scheme. Singlife is also an official signatory of the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance and the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, affirming its commitment to finding a better way to sustainability.

First announced in September 2020 and valued at S$3.2 billion, the merger of Aviva Singapore and Singlife was the largest insurance deal in Singapore then and created one of the largest homegrown financial services companies in the republic.

Key Appointments
- Technology Risk Officer, in the Tech Risk & Business Resilience Team.
- 2nd line technology risk management and governance for the Singlife Group of companies

Key Responsibilities
- Advocate effective technology risk management, ensuring risks are understood and managed within the approved risk appetite by the responsible technology functions.
- Assist the ED to keep updated the depository of technology and cyber risk related framework, policies, standards and SOP.
- Provide support for internal and external auditors. This includes managing RFIs, check and collate relevant evidence, submission of evidence in accordance with agreed schedules and coordinating responses to audit observations.
- Complete due diligence questionnaires received from clients.

Purpose of the Role
- Serve as the primary contact to coordinate communications between auditor (internal and external) and Singlife Tech personnel to ensure clear dissemination of audit requirements and timely provision of accurate evidence to the auditors.
- Provide technology risk advisory support to Business Units.
- Identify gaps in technology and cyber risk related controls and propose remediation actions to address them.

Key Decisions within the Role
- Systems - Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) System
- SharePoint/Confluence - Audit evidence depository
- Know how / expertise - Risk management framework and regulatory requirements.

Team
- Part of Technology Risk Management team with six team members

**Requirements**:
Experience
- Overall 2+ years of experiences in areas of technology governance, risk management, operational risk and control management.
- Good understanding of a broad range of technology domains, including Cloud computing.
- Industry experience from Financial Services, FinTech, InsurTech, Digital Payment, eCommerce would be preferred.
- Ability to multi-task assignments, prioritized workload with limited supervision and be resilience under pressure whilst delivering to deadlines.

Education
- Academic: Bachelor’s degree in Computer or Information Technology (mandatory)
- Professional Certification(s): CISSP or CRISC, CISA or other recognised organization (preferred)

Key Stakeholders:
External
- External auditors and local regulators

Internal
- Risk and control owners and their nominees for the Group Technology function as well as the business entity’s technology leads.
- Internal auditors
- Legal & Compliance functions
- Members of the wider Group Risk function.