VP Operational Risk Manager Risk Management Group
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will provide independent operational-risk oversight for assigned business and support units. You will review risk metrics, identify systemic concerns, conduct thematic reviews, enhance policies and mitigation programmes, deliver risk-awareness initiatives, improve risk tools, and contribute to ongoing projects.
Requirements
- University degree or equivalent in finance, accountancy, business, technology, or a related field
- At least 8 years of experience in banks or financial institutions
- Understanding of operational risk, banking products, and banking processes
- Experience in first-, second-, or third-line risk and control roles
- Knowledge of operational-risk management concepts and tools
- Communication, facilitation, stakeholder-influencing, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Responsibilities
- Provide independent advice, review, and challenge on operational-risk management and resilience
- Assess and monitor operational risk through risk events, self-assessments, and key risk indicators
- Identify systemic or thematic concerns and escalate them to senior management
- Conduct thematic risk reviews and identify control improvements
- Develop and maintain operational-risk policies and mitigation programmes
- Implement training and awareness initiatives to strengthen risk culture
- Lead improvements to risk-management tools
- Participate in ongoing projects and initiatives
