Risk Specialist/manager

At Bank of Singapore, we are constantly on the lookout for exceptional individuals to join our team. We promote a culture of openness, teamwork and fairness. Most importantly, we invest in our people through our programmes that develop them on both professional and personal levels. Besides attractive remuneration packages, we offer non-financial benefits and opportunities to develop your potential within OCBC Group’s global network of subsidiaries and offices. If you have passion, drive and the will to succeed, rise to the challenge today

**GENERAL DESCRIPTION**

The incumbent seeks to implement and/or enhance the Private Banking business risk and surveillance related projects, procedures, and processes. This is to ensure the bank is compliant with Private Banking Controls and Regulations, and at the same time achieve continuous improvement around business risk and surveillance processes.

**MAIN DUTIES**

In this role, your main duties and responsibilities will involve:

- Provide operational and business risk lens to policy and procedure roll out and updates, to ensure changes are effectively embedded into the bank's processes and systems
- Supports the business on strategic growth objectives and client experience enhancement, while at the same time providing risk management and operational efficiency angle to the process
- Be able to independently manage, implement or enhance or re-design business risk and monitoring procedures and processes, by setting clear project plans for execution and stakeholder engagement.
- Perform regular monitoring and surveillance on operational and business risk controls to ensure that Front office conducts activities per internal policy and procedures
- Engage and timely follow-up with Front Office on any identified deficiencies and ensure rectification for the observation noted or escalate to management as needed
- Highlight surveillance deficiencies trends and lesson learnt to relevant front office
- Analyse and identify gaps in existing policies and procedures, and proactively feedback to the respective policy or procedure owners to ensure continuous process & control design and improvement

**Qualifications**

**WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS**
- Minimum of 4 years of experience, with practical experience in Front Office processes enhancement and implementation of at least one business risk or monitoring related initiatives for a private bank
- Strong analytical and good knowledge of risk, regulatory, control and process design
- Understand business flow and process, investigate and analyze issues with attention to details
- Experience in agile and lean methodology is preferred
- Willingness to learn and embrace challenges and changes
- Able to rapidly assimilate and multi-task
- Able to work independently and guide/lead the junior members of the team
- Strong interpersonal and professional communication skills (both oral and written). Must have strong presentation and group facilitation skills.
- Excellent team and organizational leadership skills working with cross functional stakeholders
- Experience managing and working confidently and collaboratively across functional teams
- Good understanding of project management methodologies; demonstrated ability to plan, schedule and coordinate various streams within a project and manage cross-functional project teams to deliver on time and within budget; ability to identify and drive issues to a quick resolution while balancing the needs of the business, the customer and the team; demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple concurrent streams through prioritization.
- Proficiency in MS Power Query /Power BI/ Access VBA or programming language is a plus