Senior Director, Risk Management

BNY; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a senior risk governance professional in Hong Kong to provide oversight across APAC business, platform, and legal entity activities. You will partner with stakeholders on risk, control, and governance matters and support reporting with clear risk assessments.

The role requires strong APAC risk management experience, credibility with senior leadership, and the ability to navigate complex multi-entity environments while driving issue remediation and governance execution.

Qualifications

• Strong APAC experience in risk management, risk governance, or risk oversight.
• Credibility operating with senior stakeholders across business, Risk, Compliance, and Control functions.
• Ability to navigate complex matrix environments with multiple legal entities, platforms, and business lines.
• Strong judgment on governance, escalation, and regulatory-sensitive matters.
• Executive presence and the ability to communicate with clarity, brevity, and authority.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior risk oversight and challenge across business, platform, and legal entity activities in APAC.
• Act as a trusted partner to business, platform, and functional stakeholders on key risk, control, and governance matters.
• Support governance, committee, and management reporting with clear, decision-oriented risk assessment.
• Drive follow-up and closure on material risk issues, control themes, and remediation items.
• Help ensure appropriate legal entity and regulatory governance, particularly where local oversight expectations are significant.
• Contribute to execution of strategic initiatives, business change, and platform evolution from a risk and controls perspective.
• Provide integrated coverage across 1LoD, 2LoD, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure effective issue escalation and decision-making.
• Support regional leadership on emerging risk themes, regulatory matters, and jurisdiction-specific sensitivities.
• Strengthen discipline around ownership, accountability, and risk governance execution across relevant portfolios.

Skills

APAC risk management

risk governance

stakeholder management

regulatory communication

issue escalation

executive presence

multi-entity navigation

Job description

Job Description

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Provide senior risk oversight and challenge across business, platform, and legal entity activities in APAC
• Act as a trusted partner to business, platform, and functional stakeholders on key risk, control, and governance matters
• Support governance, committee, and management reporting with clear, decision-oriented risk assessment
• Drive follow-up and closure on material risk issues, control themes, and remediation items
• Help ensure appropriate legal entity and regulatory governance, particularly where local oversight expectations are significant
• Contribute to execution of strategic initiatives, business change, and platform evolution from a risk and controls perspective
• Provide integrated coverage across 1LoD, 2LoD, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure effective issue escalation and decision-making
• Support regional leadership on emerging risk themes, regulatory matters, and jurisdiction-specific sensitivities
• Strengthen discipline around ownership, accountability, and risk governance execution across relevant portfolios

Job Description

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Provide senior risk oversight and challenge across business, platform, and legal entity activities in APAC
• Act as a trusted partner to business, platform, and functional stakeholders on key risk, control, and governance matters
• Support governance, committee, and management reporting with clear, decision-oriented risk assessment
• Drive follow-up and closure on material risk issues, control themes, and remediation items
• Help ensure appropriate legal entity and regulatory governance, particularly where local oversight expectations are significant
• Contribute to execution of strategic initiatives, business change, and platform evolution from a risk and controls perspective
• Provide integrated coverage across 1LoD, 2LoD, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure effective issue escalation and decision-making
• Support regional leadership on emerging risk themes, regulatory matters, and jurisdiction-specific sensitivities
• Strengthen discipline around ownership, accountability, and risk governance execution across relevant portfolios

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Strong APAC experience in risk management, risk governance, or risk oversight
• Credibility operating with senior stakeholders across business, Risk, Compliance, and Control functions
• Ability to navigate complex matrix environments with multiple legal entities, platforms, and business lines
• Strong judgment on governance, escalation, and regulatory-sensitive matters
• Executive presence and the ability to communicate with clarity, brevity, and authority
• A practical, solutions-oriented approach without compromising risk discipline; AI and system first thinking
• Experience handling cross-border issues and balancing regional consistency with local regulatory expectations
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive execution in fast-moving environments

Preferred Experience

• Experience in one or more of the following: Operational Risk, Markets Risk, Liquidity Risk, Risk Governance, or Legal Entity/Branch Risk Oversight
• Familiarity with APAC regulatory environments, especially Singapore and/or Hong Kong; Greater China
• Experience supporting businesses or platforms such as Global Payments & Trade, Markets, Trade Services, or related infrastructure/platform environments
• Exposure to committee governance, regulatory engagement, and management reporting
• Experience supporting strategic change, transformation, or business/platform expansion initiatives
• Comfort working across both business-specific and enterprise governance topics
• Prior experience in a regional role with multi-country coverage preferred