Associate, Specialist, Operational Risk Management, Risk Management Group

Business Function

Risk Management Group works closely with our business partners to manage the bank’s risk exposure by balancing its objective to maximize returns against an acceptable risk profile. We partner with origination teams to provide financing, investments and hedging opportunities to our customers. To manage risk effectively and run a successful business, we invest significantly in our people and infrastructure.

Essential Requirements

Job Purpose

Effective management of the risk management process and frameworks of the bank.

Key Accountabilities: -

• Facilitate the implementation and ongoing monitoring of adherence to the DBS Group Operational Risk Management (ORM) Framework within the Business / Support units (BU/SU) that enables identification, assessment, mitigation, measurement, monitoring and reporting of key operational risks
• Maintain key relationships with UORMs of the BU/SU and raise potential operational risk and control issues to RMG and line management of BU/SU.
• Contribute to department initiatives to improve the management of operational risk using Data Analytics.
• Ensure Satisfactory Ratings in Audit reviews and compliance to regulatory requirements.

Job Duties & Responsibilities: -

• Ensure adherence by Units on Third party risk management framework. The local policy to be aligned with RBI and Group guidelines. Provide oversight on third party risk management with special focus on Outsourcing Risk.
• Provide advice, guidance and training to the Business / Support units (BU/SU) on Third party risk management and outsourcing risk. This will including risk management processes, where applicable, for adoption by the units
• Ensure review and challenge on Business continuity policy and procedure matters
• Develop policy framework for BCM and ensure alignment with RBI and Group requirements.
• Manage regulatory and internal audits for BCM and Third Party Risk management.
• Engage with relevant business/support units’ UORM, facilitating the use of relevant operational risk tools and methodologies, including Risk Event Reporting, Control Self Assessment (CSA), Key Risk Indicators (KRI), etc to enable the units to identify, assess and mitigate key operational risks
• Liaise with relevant business/support units’ partners in the various control and support functions e.g. Credit, Compliance, Legal, etc in addressing operational risk issues arising in the end-to-end processes
• Manage and maintain the ORMS system for Third Party Risk management modules that enables regular risk reporting and analysis and liaise with internal support parties (eg ORMS support).
• Conduct thematic review and deep dive on third party risk management , outsourcing risk management and business continuity policy, guidelines adherence.
• Support operational risk metrics (Risk Events, CSA, KRI, etc) as appropriate, including the responses and action plans and assessing the effectiveness of these as adequate mitigants to the risks identified

Educational Qualification

• CA/Graduate/MBA/Post-Graduate

Experience

• 3-5 years+ years relevant experience in managing Operational Risk Management (ORM). Focus on handling of Outsourcing Risk and Business continuity.

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