VP SVP Country Risk Management Specialist 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.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will evaluate geopolitical, macroeconomic, sovereign, and portfolio risks across countries. You will analyse country risk profiles, recommend country-limit actions, assess ratings, manage limit breaches, engage stakeholders, enhance risk standards and methodologies, and improve systems and data for country-risk monitoring.
Requirements
- 10+ years of Country Risk or Credit Risk management experience
- Understanding of country risk, macroeconomic risk, contagion, and portfolio impact
- Ability to respond to emerging macroeconomic events with risk mitigation measures
- Familiarity with Gen AI and technology for operational processes
- Cross-functional collaboration and influence skills
- Knowledge of financial regulations across Singapore and key markets
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Business, or a related field
Responsibilities
- Scan political, economic, and social trends to identify country-risk events
- Analyse country risk profiles and recommend country-limit actions
- Review and challenge country-risk limit reviews and triggers
- Run internal rating models and assign sovereign default and transfer and convertibility risk ratings
- Engage country, business, and credit stakeholders on country portfolios and limit utilisation
- Manage escalation and remediation for tight utilisation or country-limit breaches
- Enhance country-risk standards, guides, and methodologies
- Support system and data infrastructure improvements for country-risk monitoring