Prime Risk Manager, Global Financial Markets
DBS Bank Ltd is a Singapore-based bank providing personal, SME, corporate, institutional, wealth management, financial markets, and digital banking services. Its clients include consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, corporations, and institutional customers.
About DBS Bank Ltd
DBS Bank Ltd provides banking products and services including accounts, cards, insurance, loans, investments, digital banking, payments, trade finance, foreign exchange, commodities, investment solutions, and derivatives clearing. Through its SME business, it supports businesses with financing, cash-flow management, online banking through DBS IDEAL, sustainability programmes, and business-growth initiatives. The bank serves personal customers, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients, and wealth-management customers across its regional markets.
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About the Role
You will build and lead the front-office risk management framework for Prime Services in Singapore. You will assess client and portfolio risk, margin and leverage, support onboarding and pricing decisions, run stress tests, build analytics and automation, and advise senior leadership and governance forums.
Requirements
- At least 12 years of experience in Prime Brokerage, Prime Services, counterparty credit risk, market risk or equity financing with leadership exposure
- Experience assessing leveraged client portfolios, margin, collateral, stress testing and liquidity risk
- Strong understanding of prime brokerage, securities financing, equity derivatives and funding economics
- Ability to make balanced risk decisions and communicate to senior management
- Strong quantitative skills; advanced Excel essential; Python, SQL and visualisation tools desirable
- Understanding of counterparty credit risk and capital concepts
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering or related
- Willingness to support markets across time zones
Responsibilities
- Own daily assessment of client and aggregate portfolio risk
- Review margin methodologies, limits and financing terms
- Challenge leverage requests using stress testing and scenario analysis
- Oversee exceptions, margin disputes and limit breaches
- Provide risk input into client onboarding, pricing and collateral proposals
- Design and enhance the Prime Services risk framework and governance
- Prepare risk assessments for credit committees and senior management
- Build dashboards and automate risk processes
- Partner with Technology, Quant and Data teams
- Coach team and act as senior risk subject matter expert
