APAC Tech Risk & Controls Lead

Smart Ims; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart IMS Inc is seeking a Technology Risk & Controls Specialist to join the APAC Risk & Controls function in Singapore. You will work across the corporate and investment banking technology estate, ensuring control gaps are identified, owned, and closed before regulators find them.

You will run end-to-end risk assessments, drive remediation, and coordinate with auditors and risk leads while influencing senior stakeholders and shaping risk mitigation strategies in a fast-paced, regionally scoped

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years in technology risk, technology audit, IT compliance or a control function, within banking or financial services
• Hands-on experience executing risk initiatives - not just coordinating them
• Application control testing experience
• Bachelor’s degree (IT, Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting, Business or a related discipline)
• The confidence to voice an unpopular view to a senior stakeholder and hold it with evidence

Responsibilities

• Run risk assessment and RCSA cycles end to end across a portfolio of applications
• Drive issue identification, remediation planning, and validation of closure
• Track, monitor and accelerate technology risk issues to senior management using the bank’s established tooling and procedures
• Lead the response to internal audits, external audits, regulatory exams and clearing inquiries, coordinating across application groups, risk leads and Global Information Security
• Support business and process owners in remediating the highest-severity findings, including audit issues, self-identified issues, compliance-identified issues and regulatory issues
• Quality assurance testing over application controls
• Business continuity planning and testing for in-scope applications
• Sustainability program delivery and adoption of new risk tooling (including JIRA-based risk workflows)
• Manage senior stakeholder communication and reporting
• Develop and socialise risk mitigation strategies before they become mandates
• Champion an "identify, elevate, debate" culture rather than a tick-box one
• Find and fix the parts of the risk process that are slower than they need to be

Skills

Technology risk

IT audit

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Smart IMS Inc is seeking a Technology Risk & Controls Specialist to join the APAC Risk & Controls function in Singapore. You will work across the corporate and investment banking technology estate, ensuring control gaps are identified, owned, and closed before regulators find them.

You will run end-to-end risk assessments, drive remediation, and coordinate with auditors and risk leads while influencing senior stakeholders and shaping risk mitigation strategies in a fast-paced, regionally scoped