Singapore Head of Business Risk and Resilience, HSBC

HSBC

Location:
Singapore, Singapore

Category:
Finance

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Not provided

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Job Description:

The Risk and Resilience function plays a pivotal role ensuring that GCOO and Operations across the Group operate within risk appetite, ensuring efficient and effective resilience, risk, and control management. It will provide visibility of risk and resilience vulnerabilities, remediation activity and strategic guidance regarding potential exposure and impacts, including internal and external environmental changes, and embed robust risk management processes and strategic outcomes globally across all GCOO teams. The function encompasses Controls Office, Operations Resilience, Protective Security, BCIM, Third Party Risk management and Servco. The Singapore Head of Business Risk will lead the function across all these disciplines for Singapore, driving a high performing culture, consistent control standards and improved/automated processes. It will partner with all GCOO leaders to embed control and resilience across GCOO as well as define and embed resilience practices and standards for Singapore.

Job Responsibility:

Active and engaged member of the Singapore Chief Operating Officer (COO) senior leadership team
Provide leadership driving the people agenda, developing/influencing and role modelling the HSBC values
Define and execute HSBC’s global business risk and resilience strategy, aligning with regulatory expectations and business goals
Drive a risk aware culture, ensuring proactive identification and mitigation of operational, third party and security risks
Support the Singapore COO to effecitvley manage the risk and control environment, providing insight on control effectiveness and emerging risk
Develop strong advisory controls relationship with the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Chief Executive Officers for Singapore as well as leaders across Business and Infrastructure teams
Engage with regulators and industry bodies to shape and influence resilience standards and emerging risks
Responsible for managing xLoB / xEntity Operational Resilience deliverables to meet HSBC Singapore Chief Operating Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and Co-Chief Executive Officer’s accountabilities
Accountable to HSBC Singapore and play a key role in supporting the transition of Operational Resilience from Programme delivery to Business as Usual (BAU)
Take ownership for establishing the new Business Risk functional capabilities, focussing on outcomes, proactive risk mitigation and investment and benefits returns
Drive the development and adoption of technology techniques and to enhance the bank’s approach to the mitigation of non-financial risks
Drive connectivity and collaboration across the enterprise, to drive integrated resilience capabilities including Controls, Business Continuity and Incident Management, Protective Security, and all Non-Financial Risks
Oversee the Chief Control Office, embedding a robust risk and control framework across GCOO
Oversee Group third-party risk vs. appetite working with Business and Infrastructure Non-Financial Risk teams on remediation of Third-Party risk
Oversee the readiness across the ServCo Group entities for resolution and recovery events in line with regulatory requirements
Deputise for the Singapore COO in various risk and control forums as and when needed

Requirements:

Broad and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles within multiple disciplines or a fast changing discipline
The role requires a comprehensive understanding of how all value units / products / regions / legal entities collectively integrate, alongside a comprehensive knowledge of the industry in order to contribute to the commercial objectives of HSBC
Management responsibilities through subordinate managers performing diverse activities (cross discipline e.g. Finance, Technology, Banking)
Covers a wide range of diverse activities that require complex judgements and solutions based on conceptual thought and strategic vision and analysis
Is proactive in developing ideas, continuously searching for improvements in techniques which add value to the business and has full responsibility for implementation
Latitude to make decisions within the objectives of HSBC global business / global function overall. Little guidance is available and role holder is expected to formulate strategy following the objectives of the business
Sets strategy for value unit / region / product / legal entity
The role holder must possess a high level of sensitivity to the audience, be able to modify the beliefs and opinions of others, and negotiate with significant latitude for the final outcome

What we offer:

HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count
We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 05, 2025

Expiration:
August 19, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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Singapore Head of Business Risk and Resilience

HSBC

Location:Singapore, Singapore

Category:Finance

Contract Type:Not provided