Risk & Control Vice President

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This role is based in Singapore and as such all normal working days must be carried out in Singapore.

Job Description

Join us as a Risk & Control Vice President

• In this key role, you'll be monitoring, reviewing and challenging our risk and control environment as well as helping to manage our financial crime risks in our NatWest Markets APAC business.
• You’ll be put in an oversight role to ensure the service provided by our offshored/ outsourced service provider delivered as per contract.
• You’ll be applying effective risk management and decision-making capability, anticipating and assessing the potential impacts of risk across the bank.
• You will be involved in Regulatory compliance to ensure local regulatory changes are harmonised and incorporated into Enterprise-wide Risk Management framework.
• You’ll gain significant exposure across the function and have the advantage of a varied breadth of work, supporting stakeholders to manage risk for the bank
  
  
  

What You'll Do

We'll look to you to deliver service oversight, risk assessments, change risk reviews and scenario analysis to make sure that NatWest Markets' risks and controls are assessed in relation to its risk appetite. You’ll also drive the assessment and implementation of risk framework and policy compliance or change, converting these into appropriate strategies and action plans. You will be the APAC oversight lead for service received by the team. Collaborating with senior stakeholders across the business, you’ll drive forward the development and delivery of remedial action plans where identified risks are considered out of appetite, as well as providing risk leadership and advocacy, to support a culture of proactive and pre-emptive risk management and continuous improvement, and the attainment of operational risk objectives.

Other key elements of the role are to include:

• Liaising with colleagues in the second and third line of defence to make sure that effective risk management is performed front-to-back.
• Overseeing services received from the Financial Crime hub/ Service provider and making sure they are fit for purpose and meet APAC regulatory, risk and legal requirements.
• Supporting the ongoing bank-wide risk and controls assessment of processes and infrastructure, to make sure policies, processes and standards are in place to identify, assess, measure, manage and report operational risks.
• Managing the business’s exposure to operational risk
• Making sure that operational risk management is delivered within the framework as defined by our risk policies and principles.
• Providing leadership on risk management and support management to drive forward a licence to operate culture across the business.
• Acting as a key relationship manager to critical functions
  
  
  

The Skills You'll Need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need the ability to think strategically, demonstrating thought leadership while translating concepts into effective processes. You’ll also benefit from bringing an analytical and creative approach to resolving complex problems and identifying alternatives, as well as the ability to demonstrate decisiveness and sound judgement on a consistent basis.

On top of this, you’ll bring:

• A clear track record of delivery
• Good knowledge of risk management and a controls environment
• Service oversight experience managing the service provider to the
• Good knowledge of APAC Regulation in particular Singapore and Japan.
• Project management experience, involving complex people, processes and technology issues.
• The ability to influence and conflict resolution at a senior level.
• Excellent understanding of risk management principles.
• Added advantage for Financial Crime certification (CFCCS, CAMLS, CFE).
• Added advantage for Operational Risk certification (CRM, CRMA, ISACA CRISC,CRMP).
• Japanese language proficiency is an added advantage.