Risk Management Specialist (Business Continuity & Crisis Management)

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

Job summary

NETS Group is a leading payments services group in Singapore, enabling digital payments across the value chain. This role focuses on governance, independent oversight of the BCM program, and ensuring alignment with MAS guidelines to keep the Group resilient against disruptions.

You will work with business, operations and technology to identify risks, drive regulatory compliance, and support continuity planning.

Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent industry experience in related discipline.
• Mastery of BCM standards and evolving regulatory landscape with 3–5 years in BCM, preferably financial services.
• Ability to maintain objectivity and independence while supporting business goals.
• Experience in recovery exercises including IT disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain BCM policy and standards aligned to MAS guidelines.
• Conduct independent risk assessments and provide guidance on risk mitigation.
• Monitor SRTO, RTO, and RPO targets and ensure governance adherence.
• Support risk committees, senior management, and board.
• Design and deliver BCM training programs for incident readiness.
• Provide secretariat support during disruptions and incorporate lessons learned.

Skills

BCM risk management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Education

University degree in related discipline

Tools

IT disaster recovery

Job description

The NETS Group is a leading payments services group, enabling digital payments for merchants, consumers and banks across the entire payments value chain.

The Group operates Singapore's national debit scheme enabling customers of DBS Bank/POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and UOB to make payments using their ATM cards or mobile devices at more than 130,000 acceptance points in the country as well as online payments.

Position Summary

A second line-of-defence role in Business Continuity Management and Crisis Management that focuses on governance, independent oversight, framework development and support to first line-of-defence functions (first line). This role provides oversight of the BCM program that ensures framework aligns to regulatory requirements, is robustly applied and the NETS group (Group) remains resilient against potential disruptive events.

It is required that the incumbent works closely with both business, operations and technology functions to identify and manage all risks that may potentially disrupt the ability to perform its critical business services and help drive regulatory compliance across the Group. The ideal candidate is one who is a confident self-starter with strong interpersonal and organizational skills, demonstrates the ability to exercise good judgement and partner with the business while maintaining independent oversight.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the BCM policy and standards, and alignment to MAS guidelines and notices.
• Conduct independent risk assessments to challenge first line assumptions, continuity plans, IT disaster recovery plans and offering guidance on risk mitigation strategies.
• Monitor and ensure service recovery time objectives (SRTO), recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO) are met.
• Monitor and ensure adherence to governance requirements in relation to risk management and business continuity.
• Risk committees, Senior Management and Board.
• Design and lead BCM training programs to promote risk awareness and ensure all operational staff understand their roles during a crisis.
• Provide secretariat support during major disruptions/crisis management and incorporate lessons learned into continuity planning and recovery exercises.
• Assist in the conduct of enterprise risk committee and risk working committee meetings.

Requirements

Education and Experience

• University degree in related discipline or equivalent industry-related experience.
• Mastery of BCM standards and the evolving regulatory landscape with at least 3-5 years of experience in BCM, preferably within the financial industry.
• Ability to maintain objectivity and ensuring independence while supporting business goals is a must.
• Experience in conducting or involvement in recovery exercises including IT disaster recovery is necessary to provide effective oversight.

Skills and Knowledge

• Good working knowledge of risk management and control concepts, constantly paying attention to details to perform deep-dive investigations when needed.
• Stakeholder management and collaboration skills with effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.

Professional Certification

• Professional certifications in the field of risk and controls, operational risk and business continuity (e.g. CBCI, CIA, CISA, CRMA, CPRM, FRM, BCCE/CBCP) would be beneficial.

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