Senior Manager, Resilience Risk (2-year contract)

HSBC Holdings plc; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC is seeking a Senior Manager, Resilience Risk for a 2-year contract in Singapore. The role emphasizes lead-level influence, risk governance and regulatory reporting across Resilience and 1LOD controls, with a focus on safeguarding the bank’s risk appetite and ensuring compliance with regulatory expectations.

The successful candidate will partner with senior stakeholders, manage regulatory engagements, and drive risk mitigation efforts in a hybrid work environment in Singapore.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience influencing at senior levels.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory risk and resilience.
• Experience in risk management in banking/financial environment.
• Ability to educate stakeholders on risk implications.
• Experience with risk and regulatory reporting obligations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice across project lifecycle focusing on Resilience Risk and related risks.
• Explain risk impacts in non-technical terms and suggest controls/resources changes.
• Support 1LOD to understand effectiveness of controls.
• Deliver expertise and challenge across project lifecycle for mitigating controls.
• Guide Enterprise Risk and Regulatory reporting obligations for the project.
• Ensure root cause analysis of operational risk issues and escalation as needed.
• Lead regulator and audit engagements related to Resilience Risk in the project.
• Educate stakeholders on emerging risks affecting controls and resources.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory risk

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Banking/Finance experience

Education

BA/BS degree

RR certificate(s)

Job description

Senior Manager, Resilience Risk (2-year contract)

Location: Singapore, 01, SG, 117439

Brand: HSBC

Area of Interest: Risk and Compliance

Role Workstyle: Hybrid Worker

Date: 2 Sept 2026

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.

Risk and Compliance is a global function that brings together all aspects of regulatory and financial crime risk management. Acting as risk stewards, and incorporating a range of specialist teams, we work together with the business and leverage advanced technology to help HSBC navigate a complex regulatory landscape and embed a sustainable approach to compliance risk management that supports safe growth and ensures fair outcomes for clients. Compliance aspires to continuously raise the bar and set leading standards across the industry to help HSBC safeguard its customers and the communities within which it operates.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Senior Manager, Resilience Risk.

In this role you will:

• Provide technical advice and support as part of the project lifecycle, ensuring the 1LOD teams understand and are aware of the control environment and assessment of commensurate with the scale and nature of the project itself – specifically in relation to Resilience Risk, Operational Risk and Strategic Execution Risk.
• Explain in non-technical terms the impact of risks and / or issues associated with the project and that may require changes (for example, to controls, resources or business operations) to remain within respective Risk Appetite.
• Support the 1LOD to ensure Risk and Control Owners have a clear understanding of the effectiveness of the current and projected control environment associated with the project.
• Deliver tailored and specific expertise, as well as review and challenge, across the lifecycle of the project, enabling 1LOD to successfully deploy and operate mitigating key controls.
• Provide technical guidance to support any Enterprise Risk and Regulatory reporting obligations in relation to the project (e.g. Risk Appetite Statements, Top & Emerging Risks, Risk Profile Reporting, Risk Management Meeting, Board reporting where relevant, etc)
• Ensure the root cause of relevant local operational risk issues associated with the project are fully understood and correctly treated and any concerns with key controls associated with the project and relevant to Resilience Risk are understood and escalated (i.e. within country, to region and/or global) as needed.
• Lead Singapore regulator and audit engagement pertaining to Resilience Risk as it relates to the project; ensure regulatory compliance for the specialist area/s and timely completion of any self- or Audit-identified actions and findings.
• Educating stakeholders to understand the impact of emerging risks that require changes to controls, resources and business operations to ensure they remain within appetite

To be successful you will need:

• Strong leader with the ability to influence at the senior levels of the organisation
• Strong level of Technology and Cyber Security, Data risk management knowledge, Third Party and Transaction Processing Risk, Operational Risk and Resilience and Change Execution Risk experience
• Comprehensive knowledge of the external environment (threat, regulatory, geopolitical, competitor, technological landscapes)
• Strong relevant experience in Banking or Financial sector.
• A BA or BS University Degree, plus a professional certificate in one or more RR specialist disciplines, an advantage

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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