Head of Client Risk Management

HSBC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank is seeking a Head of Client Risk Management in Singapore. This role involves overseeing risk management frameworks, ensuring compliance, and fostering a strong risk culture within the bank. Ideal candidates have a degree in Business with significant experience in risk management and strong analytical and project management skills.

Qualifications

• Proven analytical, planning, and project management experience.
• Deep technical experience in Non-Financial Risk Framework.
• Comprehensive knowledge of external risk factors.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for Risk Management Framework for Singapore IWPB.
• Manage Sales Quality team and oversee compliance audits.
• Drive initiatives promoting strong risk culture across the business.
• Develop third-party risk management policies and frameworks.

Skills

Analytical skills

Project management

Relationship management

Collaboration skills

Risk management expertise

Education

Degree in Business or related discipline

Job description

Description

Some careers have more impact than others.

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) helps deliver on HSBC’s purpose of opening up a world of opportunity by providing our customers with borderless banking and world-class wealth management through best-in-class, mobile-first capabilities and exceptional people. Our international network and breadth of expertise enable us to support individuals, families, business owners, investors and entrepreneurs. Wealth and Personal Banking has four key business areas responsible for efficiently bringing the best of HSBC to our clients through a broad and relevant suite of wealth and retail banking capabilities: Asset Management, Global Private Banking & Wealth, HSBC Life, Retail Banking & Strategy and COO & Digital Transformation.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Head of Client Risk Management.

Principal Responsibilities

In this role you will

• Be accountable for the First Line of Defence Risk Management Framework for Singapore International Wealth and Premier Banking (IWPB), including all Risk & Control related tasks, developing appropriate Risk Control Assessment (RCA), Control Monitoring Assessment (CMA), Key Risk Indicator (KRI), Risk Appetite and The Management Information (MI) and Reporting thereof by which the regular Monitoring can be well managed
• Manage Sales Quality team for post trade sampling, and oversee the planning, execution, and reporting of independent audits of the sales lifecycle to ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements
• Manage Quality Control (QC) for Account Opening and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) / Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) Quality, ensuring adherence to Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) standards
• Manage Risk Culture and Conduct Issues by driving initiatives that promote a strong risk culture across the business, emphasizing ethical behaviour, accountability, and transparency
• Manage Chief Data Office by developing and implementing enterprise data strategy aligned with business objectives; govern data quality, data governance frameworks, and metadata management
• Act as the security liaison between business units and the central security team and to implement cybersecurity strategies tailored to specific business functions
• Collaborate on incident response and business continuity planning with IWPB teams and supporting functions
• Develop and maintain third‑party risk management policies and frameworks for IWPB; Conduct risk assessments and due diligence for new and existing vendors and Monitor third‑party compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards

Qualifications

To be successful you will need

• Degree graduate in Business or related discipline with proven and progressive analytical, planning and project management experience in a business or project management function or equivalent
• Advanced risk management experience with deep technical experience in managing Non-Financial Risk Framework
• Comprehensive knowledge of the external environment (Risk, regulatory, political, competitors etc.)
• Outstanding relationship management, collaboration and influencing skills with experience of positive, challenging interactions with senior executives across multiple functions

Opening up a world of opportunity
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