Senior Manager, Regional Fcso Asia

Job ID: 29346

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 28 May 2025
- Job Summary- Individual would be responsible for dual responsibilities, firstly to support Country Head of FCSO to discharge responsibilities from an FCSO Investigation perspective and secondly to support Country Head of FCSO insofar as they relate to the management and oversight of controls related processes. The incumbent has to be mindful of conflict of interest in discharging the dual responsibilities.**About our Technology & Operations Team**
- Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.- When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.- Analyse comprehensive impact of financial crime related regulatory /law enforcement matters on the relevant business area and operations
- Support relevant stakeholders to make decisions based on current and possible future policies, practices, and trends.
- Act as Regional SPOC for FCSO-owned (sub-) processes under the Group’s Risk Management Framework, including implementation and roll-out of relevant processes and DOIs.
- Develop, keep-up-to date and recommend for approval by the relevant Risk Committee, appropriate FCSO Controls policies/procedures/DOIs to address financial crime risks, aligning with relevant regulatory requirements
- Providing governance and oversight over the implementation of FCSO Controls -related policies and procedures in Country to ensure compliance with such policies and procedures.
- To investigate risk events / cases:

- Escalated by Financial Crime Surveillance Unit (FCSO-AA) teams (arising from Transaction Monitoring, Trade AML &/or Name Screening);
- Other escalations as per procedures / DOI;
- Any other matter as directed by Country Head of FCSO for identifying suspicious transactions / activities, in compliance with Group policy and procedures, laws and regulations in Singapore on AML/CFT.
- To support Regional Head of FCSO, Asia on oversight of the Country Financial Crime Surveillance Operations (FCSO) Teams, including but not limited to
- Providing guidance to Country FCSO stakeholders and relevant value chain stakeholders (e.g. FCSO-AA, FCSO-QCO, and FCSO-RFI);
- Monitoring relevant metrics and lead requisite actions to intervene, where required;
- Establishing and maintaining effective working relationship with relevant stakeholders including but not limited to Business Units, FCC and like;
- Ensuring timely reporting and escalation of significant risk issues to management;
- Supporting initiatives to enhance relevant work processes for both effectiveness and efficiency purpose

**Risk Management**
- As applicable to activities managed under FCSO Control
- Maintain oversight of risk mitigating action plans.
- Understand technical aspects of systems relevant to CDD, Client Risk Assessments, Name and Transaction Screening, AML Monitoring and Case Management
- Ensure that detection scenarios that are developed and deployed are fit-for-purpose.
- Make recommendations (and/or implement) to relevant stakeholders on possible risk management responses to identified risks and/or findings of concerns from investigations.
- Inform senior management and relevant regulators of serious regulatory breaches (or where risk tolerances have been breached) and ensure that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
- Anticipate horizon risks in the area of financial crime that may have a significant impact on the Group and develop effective strategies to mitigate such horizon risks.
- Ensure that significant investigations are concluded internally and externally where relevant (including cross-border).
- Provide intelligence inputs to support calibration of bank’s Risk Methodologies (including aggregate client risk, product risk and country risk assessments).
- Ensure that the relevant lists and database as used by the screening systems are up-to-date
- Ensure that detection scenarios that are developed and deployed are fit-for-purpose
- Review and assess existing system and controls relevant to FCSO to ascertain operational performance effectiveness

**Governance**
- Oversight and review of outsourcing arrangements.
- Ensure tracking and remediation of surveillance and investigations related regulatory findings.
- In the event of serious regulatory breaches, or where risk tolerances have been breached, ensure senior management and relevant regulators