Risk & Prevention, Regional GO&T Risk Manager (VP/AVP)
OCBC Bank · Singapore
WHO WE ARE:
As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.
Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.
We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.
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Description:
Group Operations and Technology (O&T) provides IT and backroom support across the Bank's business such as Group Consumer Financial Services, Group Corporate Banking, Global Treasury, and corporate functions, e.g., Group Risk Management, Group Finance, and Group Human Resources. It supports regional operations and drives resilience, service quality, productivity, and responsible technology adoption across Singapore, Malaysia, and other markets.
Group O&T Risk & Prevention (R&P) provides independent risk governance, oversight, and advisory support to Group Operations & Technology. The team promotes a strong risk and compliance culture, supports effective implementation of operational risk and regulatory requirements, and oversees the identification, escalation, and timely resolution of key risks and control issues.
Role Description:
An opportunity to take on a high-impact regional role at the centre of Risk & Prevention governance. The Regional GO&T Risk Manager will help shape a consistent, practical operating model across entities, bringing together Group requirements, local priorities and emerging operations, technology and third-party risk themes into one clear regional view. This role will directly influence how risk governance is strengthened across the rion. Working closely with the Head, Governance and Third-Party Risks, and local R&P teams, the role will turn complex risk information into decision-ready insights, drive timely escalation and closure, and support stronger, more consistent execution across the region. This role is suitable for a collaborative risk professional who enjoys influencing across countries, improving governance discipline and helping senior stakeholders make confident, well-informed decisions.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Lead the regional R&P governance framework, including governance forums, meeting cadence, reporting standards and action tracking across entities.
Partner with the Head, Governance and Third-Party Risk to convert risk priorities, technical assessments, control challenges and regulatory themes into coordinated regional actions with clear owners, milestones and closure criteria.
Maintain a consolidated regional view of material risks, control gaps, audit and regulatory issues, incidents, risk acceptances, overdue actions and emerging themes across R&P.
Drive consistent application of Group policies, standards, methodologies and minimum control expectations across entities, while ensuring justified local regulatory variations are documented, approved and visible.
Coordinate regional implementation across local R&P teams, identify dependencies or execution gaps, and facilitate resolution without displacing local accountability.
Provide governance challenge on the quality of risk ratings, remediation plans, target dates, management information and closure evidence; refer specialist risk questions to the respective Head for Operations, Technology or Third-Party Risk.
Prepare concise, decision-oriented materials for regional and Group governance forums, clearly setting out risk impact, cross-entity implications, options, recommendations and matters requiring escalation.
Monitor implementation of decisions and commitments arising from risk assessments, audits, regulatory reviews and governance forums, and drive timely, sustainable closure.
Identify systemic or recurring themes across entities and work with the Head, Governance and Third-Party Risk and relevant stakeholders to define common responses, standards, tooling or uplift programmes.
Coordinate regional R&P input to audits, regulatory reviews and inspections, ensuring consistency of submissions, transparency of status and appropriate engagement of the Head for Operations, Technology, or Third-Party Risk for technical matters.
Establish regional communities of practice and deliver guidance, coaching and knowledge sharing to strengthen governance discipline, risk judgement, executive reporting and issue management.
Support the Head, R&P with regional risk insights, governance effectiveness assessments and recommendations to improve risk culture and execution.
Key Outcomes / Success Measures
Shape and strengthen regional governance, ensuring effective oversight, clear accountability, and informed decision-making across the organisation.
Provide actionable risk insights to senior leadership, delivering a clear view of key risks, emerging themes, and cross-entity impacts.
Embed consistent risk and control standards across the region while balancing local regulatory requirements and business needs.
Advance governance maturity and risk culture, identifying systemic issues, driving continuous improvement, and fostering collaboration and best practice sharing across teams.
Drive timely resolution of risk, audit, and regulatory issues, ensuring sustainable remediation and strong control outcomes.
Pre-requisites (Knowledge / Experience / Skills):
Strong experience in risk governance, operational risk, technology risk, compliance, audit, controls or a related discipline within a regulated, multi-entity environment.
Demonstrated ability to design and run governance forums, consolidate risk information, challenge remediation, manage escalation and produce senior management reporting.
Good understanding of third-party risk, operation risk, and technology-risk concepts and regulatory expectations, with the judgement to distinguish governance matters from those requiring specialist technical assessment.
Experience coordinating across countries, legal entities and functions, and influencing stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.
Experience supporting internal or external audits and regulatory reviews, including action tracking and closure governance.
Strong analytical capability and experience with dashboards, risk indicators, trend analysis and management information.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to articulate complex issues in clear business and risk terms.
Ability to work closely with the respective Head in R&P and local R&P leaders while maintaining clear accountabilities and constructive, independent challenge.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity, connecting themes across multiple sources and bringing practical structure to complex risk and governance topics.
Core Competencies:
Regional governance leadership and execution discipline.
Risk judgement, constructive challenge and clear escalation.
Ability to integrate technical risk input into business-oriented governance decisions.
Stakeholder management across Group, regional and local teams.
Concise executive communication and decision-quality reporting.
Analytical thinking, attention to detail and focus on sustainable outcomes.
Collaboration with clear role boundaries and accountability.
Adaptability in a dynamic regulatory, technology and controls environment.
Academic:
A university degree in technology, risk management, business, finance or a related discipline. Relevant professional certification in risk, audit, information security or governance, such as CISA, CRISC, CISSP or equivalent, would be advantageous.
What we offer:
Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.