VP, Risk & Governance Team Lead, GFCA-Finance Operations
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.
Your Opportunity Starts Here.
Why Join
This role offers broad visibility and meaningful impact, with opportunities to shape standards across a global operating environment, influence senior stakeholders, lead a specialised team, and strengthen the resilience, insight and future readiness of Finance Operations.
Finance Operations is at the heart of trusted execution. In this role, you will position risk and governance as business enablers, helping teams operate with confidence, adapt to change and protect the organisation as it grows and transforms.
This is more than a control oversight role. You will lead the Risk & Governance agenda for Finance Operations, setting standards that strengthen operational discipline across entities and locations globally. You will influence how risks are anticipated, controls evolve and leaders make informed decisions.
Working across Finance, Risk, Compliance, Technology, Internal Audit and External Audit, you will connect policy with practice and insight with action. You will also champion smarter ways of working by using automation, analytics, dashboards and appropriately governed AI-enabled tools to enhance monitoring, reporting and operational efficiency.
How it works
You proactively identify and mitigate emerging risks, implement practical and sustainable controls, and translate governance requirements into consistent business practices. By providing actionable insights that support informed decision-making and partnering closely with stakeholders, you help balance effective risk management with business enablement, establishing the team as a trusted advisor that protects the organization while driving progress.
What you do
Set the Risk and Control Agenda
- Identify the operational risks that matter most to Finance Operations and evaluate whether mitigating controls are well designed and operating effectively.
- Direct risk registers, operational risk indicators, dispensations, control assurance and sample testing, focusing resources on higher-risk areas and ensuring issues are escalated and resolved.
- Provide governance oversight of third-party risk, access controls, segregation of duties, transaction monitoring and control incidents.
- Coordinate relevant compliance, technology, cyber, end-user computing, personal data and annual assurance activities.
- Anticipate the control implications of system upgrades, process redesign, organizational change and transformation initiatives, ensuring controls evolve with the business.
- Serve as the key Finance Operations partner to Operational Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, External Audit and other control functions.
Strengthen Data and Process Integrity
- Set consistent governance standards for Finance Operations data, including data quality monitoring, attestations, record retention and issue resolution.
- Oversee the integrity of supplier, customer and other master data, including independent verification of sensitive information where required.
- Provide oversight of key system parameters, master data classifications, item category account mappings, approval workflows and maker-checker controls across procurement and supplier-management processes, ensuring alignment with current policies and supported by clear documentation and approvals.
- Keep policies, procedures and operating guides current, practical and consistently applied across relevant entities and locations.
Turn Governance into Insight
- Oversee the timely and accurate delivery of corporate governance reporting, operational planning activities, and service-level arrangement reviews between the section and relevant entities.
- Apply sound judgement and quality review to submissions, and support clear, well-evidenced responses to management, Board and audit queries.
- Elevate risk monitoring and reporting through automation, analytics, dashboards and appropriately governed AI-enabled tools.
- Use assurance findings, performance metrics and trend analysis to identify emerging risks and improvement opportunities.
Build Resilience and Readiness
- Lead business continuity planning, critical-process assessments, call-tree exercises and disaster recovery testing for Finance Operations.
- Identify single points of failure, strengthen backup arrangements and ensure remediation actions are closed effectively.
- Support incident response and help teams translate lessons learned into stronger, more resilient ways of working.
Lead People and Influence Outcomes
- Lead, coach and develop the Risk & Governance team, creating clarity of purpose, high standards and meaningful development opportunities.
- Build capability across risk management, governance, reporting, systems and emerging technologies.
- Engage senior stakeholders with confidence, constructive challenges and practical solutions to resolve issues and deliver agreed outcomes.
- Foster a culture in which accountability, collaboration, curiosity and sound risk judgement are part of everyday decisions.
Who you are
- A degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Risk Management or a related discipline; relevant professional qualifications are advantageous.
- At least 10 years’ experience in finance operations, shared services, operational risk, internal controls, governance, audit or a related control function within a complex organization.
- A proven record of leading teams, developing people and influencing senior stakeholders across functions.
- Strong knowledge of risk and control frameworks, business continuity, data governance, audit practices and regulatory requirements.
- Experience with enterprise resource planning systems, access governance, segregation-of-duties controls and transaction monitoring is preferred.
- A practical, forward-looking mindset with strong analytical, problem-solving, communication and stakeholder-management skills
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.