Vice President, Business Controls, Singapore

**Business Controls Vice President**

Supporting our Global Markets Sales & Trading teams in Asia Pacific, this position will be based in Singapore and will sit within the Business Controls Function - which is part of the GBAM COO/COS organization and is the key control partner for the line of business heads and the front office.

Our sales and trading professionals within Global Markets are at the centre of the world's financial markets, providing liquidity, industry-leading insights and analytics, competitive pricing and added value across the spectrum of debt and equity markets. The Supervisory and Control Function is an in-business group providing a range of advisory and execution services for the Global Markets businesses, including analysis and performance of key supervision and control tasks.

This is a hands-on role which will test your analytical thinking, sometimes requiring you to design your own controls and to constantly seek opportunities to present meaningful, actionable summaries of your analysis to a senior audience.

**Role Responsibilities**:
The role will be responsible for undertaking and supporting supervision activity in the FX/FICC businesses in Asia Pacific, responsibilities will include:

- Supporting the management of the FICC business in the strategic understanding and practical mitigation of their control risks and the evolution of the business’ risk culture
- Understanding and implementing the front office supervision and control arrangements using the firm’s tools
- Reviewing daily activity reports and other control tools to identify any areas of concern for follow up and escalation
- Gathering and analyzing trade activity to assist Sales and Trading supervisors with dispositioning their supervisory alerts
- Ensuring the supervisors are constantly aware of any issues - and are aware of their ongoing responsibilities to supervise (this role supplements and does not replace the supervisors’ own responsibilities)
- Working with Enterprise Control Functions (Operations, Legal and Compliance, Finance, Risk, IT, HR, Audit) to ensure end-to-end processes for all client and trade activity are controlled
- Working with Enterprise Control functions to improve the quality of the supervisory reports
- Performing deep-dives into producer activities and the economics and risks of products to identify control weaknesses or gaps in processes and activities and remediating weaknesses
- Working across the region with the Business Control and COO teams in each country where there is FX activity to ensure that the supervisory control framework for the business is common and effective in each location and responding to local issues

**Required Skills**:

- have extensive industry experience in the FX/FICC markets
- have the ability to run complex, collaborative analytical
- have a strong academic background or equivalent
- have good IT skills and the ability to develop ad hoc solutions
- have exceptional communication/relationship skills
- Control Mindset: commitment to ensuring that the business does the right thing
- Creative Thinking: the ability to generate new ideas and possibilities, and to see business opportunities - and risks - with a constructive perspective
- Consulting Skills: an ability to provide added value, including innovative approaches and new or improved solutions
- Flexibility: the capacity to adapt approach in light of shifting priorities or changing conditions
- Personal Effectiveness: strong communication, decisiveness, energy, drive, courage and character. A thinker - and a doer
**Job Band**:
H5**Shift**:
**Hours Per Week**:
40**Weekly Schedule**:
**Referral Bonus Amount**:
0