Head - Risk Management (Regional Risk)

Hong Leong Bank; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Malaysia is seeking a candidate for a senior role in risk management to lead and drive strategic risk initiatives across regional banking subsidiaries. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree, relevant certifications, and significant experience in risk management within a financial services environment. Strong analytical and interpersonal skills are essential. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to impactful risk processes in a dynamic banking environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive financial services

Industry recognition and accolades

Diversity and inclusion focus

Qualifications

• 10-15 years' experience in risk management or related in financial services.
• Experience with regulators and senior stakeholders is beneficial.
• Understanding of businesses in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam or Cambodia is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide directions on risk management strategies across branches.
• Develop and propose risk management programs.
• Supervise risk trends and positions of regional subsidiaries.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical thinking

Project management

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Bank Risk Management certification

Job description

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Job responsibilities

• Lead, drive and provide strategic directions on HLBB's risk management strategies, methodologies and initiatives across regional banking subsidiaries/branches.
• Lead the development of new or improve existing risk management programs and techniques, where applicable, to achieve consistency in standards and efficiency across regional banking subsidiaries/branches.
• Develop and propose regional banking subsidiaries'/branches' risk appetite statements and thresholds.
• Execute by cascading it down to respective subsidiaries, and closely monitor to ensure that each subsidiary/branch complies with their respective risk tolerances.
• Regular engagement with regional countries risk officers, supervise to ensure that risks are appropriately escalated with sufficient details to the Head Office. Coordinate the escalation of issues to the relevant stakeholders, and if applicable, work with relevant stakeholders and monitor to ensure that it is appropriately resolved on a timely basis.
• In-depth understanding on what a robust governance framework entails, and be able to tailor such framework to different countries, which operates in different scale, size and level of complexity.
• Evaluate the nuances and regulatory requirements of different countries, and tailor applications of policies and practices to each regional subsidiary/branch.
• Broad and comprehensive understanding on principles of various risk disciplines including but not limited to credit risk, market risk, operational risk, IT risk, and be able to apply such concepts in practice.
• Strong vigilance on risks that may arise from evolving conditions in the economy and markets of the HLBB and its regional banking subsidiaries/branches.
• Proactively address issues and challenges with innovative solutions while providing guidance to regional countries risk officers across the Banking Group.
• Supervise the review, analysis and monitoring of risk trends and positions of respective regional subsidiaries/branches, develop independent insights from the analytics performed, and highlight to Management and Board Committees.
• Guide respective countries' risk officers and team members by setting performance objectives, evaluating and optimizing operational performance, while continuously upskill expertise to deliver high quality work consistently.
• Ensure equitable and efficient work distribution amongst team members for effective operational continuity.
• Implement succession planning.
• Matrix reporting of the respective countries' risk management officers into the Regional Countries Risk Department.
• Support businesses in achieving growth with a balanced risk perspective in line with strategic objectives.
• Directly impact the risk processes of regional banking subsidiaries/branches, as part of the alignment of policies and practices across Banking Group.
• Ensure tight integration and alignment between risk management processes of the Head Office and regional countries, to contribute to achieving business objectives of the Banking Group.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree or it's equivalent.
• Bank Risk Management certification
• 10-15 years' experience in risk management or any other discipline in a financial services environment.
• Experience in strategic planning, project management and legal entity governance.
• Experience in engagement with regulators and senior stakeholders.
• Understanding of businesses and regulatory environment in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam and/or Cambodia would be an added advantage.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships and influence.
• Ability to exercise sound judgement based on advanced analytical thoughts to tailor implementation of initiatives across countries.
• Ability to deliver at both strategic and operational levels.
• Ability to have a big-picture view to assess the impact of policy/process implementation holistically.

About Hong Leong Bank

We are a leading financial institution in Malaysia backed by a century of entrepreneurial heritage. Providing comprehensive financial services guided by a Digital-at-the-Core ethos has earned us industry recognition and accolades for our innovative approach in making banking simpler and more effortless for our customers. Our digital and physical offerings span across a vast nationwide network in Malaysia, strengthened with an expanding regional presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.

We seek to strike a balance between diversity, inclusion and merit to achieve our mission of infusing diversity in thinking and skillsets into our organisation. Candidates are assessed based on merit and potential, in line with our mission to attract and recruit the best talent available. Expanding on our "Digital at the Core" ethos, we are progressively digitising the employee journey and experience to provide a strong foundation for our people to drive life-long learning, achieve their career aspirations and grow talent from within our organisation.

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