Senior Vice President, Resilience Risk - HSBC Life

HSBC Holdings plc; Singapore; On-site; SGD 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Life (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. invites applications for a Senior Vice President, Resilience Risk.

This leadership role partners with INSP Business and Infrastructure teams to strengthen the risk and control environment across Tech, Cyber, Data and Third-Party risks, and to support regulatory reporting and incident management in a hybrid-work setting. You will monitor external risk signals, provide guidance to local risk programmes, escalate RR issues, and help ensure resilient operations and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise risk management and resilience risk stewardship across technology, cyber security, data and third-party risk

Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice to INSP Business and Infrastructure teams to align risk and control environments with the scale of operations
• Deliver risk governance, regulatory reporting and risk assessment across RR domains
• Monitor external risk signals and develop local risk controls to mitigate emerging threats
• Escalate RR issues and ensure timely remediation in partnership with 1LOD and risk owners
• Support data governance and regulatory reporting obligations as needed

Skills

Enterprise risk management

Resilience risk stewardship

Technology risk

Cyber security

Data risk

Third-party risk

Governance frameworks

Regulatory reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree or professional qualification in a relevant field

Job description

Senior VicePresident, Resilience Risk - HSBC Life

Location: Singapore, 01, SG, 117439

Brand: HSBC

Area of Interest: Insurance

Role Workstyle: Hybrid Worker

Date: 28 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.

HSBC Life is a world-class institution where you can specialize in Insurance but enjoy the advantages that come with being part of a leading global international bank. Here you can specialize in Insurance but enjoy the advantages that come with being part of a leading global international bank.

Insurance is about people, and the promises they make. At HSBC Life in Singapore we help deliver on these promises by providing a wide variety of life insurance products and services to our clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Our employees enjoy a dynamic and innovative workplace and a world of opportunities to develop their careers in a high-profile growing business segment. We empower our combined team of high-performing individuals to build skills and explore new experiences to realise the full potential of being part of HSBC.

Together we will pursue efficient ways of working. We will harness the latest data and technology solutions to achieve meaningful outcomes for our clients. And the protection we offer will create broad and lasting impact, helping clients to be healthier, more productive and more confident in their futures.

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

In this role you will:

• Provide technical advice and support to INSP Business and Infrastructure coverage teams to allow them to understand and ensure the risk for the 1LOD are commensurate with the scale and nature of operations; and Risk and Control Owners clearly understand the effectiveness of the control environment. Such advice may be related to the control environment; risk assessment; impact of issues or events; top and emerging risks that may require changes to remain within respective Risk Appetite; and the development and implementation of localised Risk Management Framework activity as required (e.g. Locally Significant Risks) or to meet local regulatory expectations.


• Deliver tailored and specific expertise across all aspects of Resilience Risk including but not limited to Tech and Cyber Security, Third Party Risk, Data and Processing related risks. Review and challenge across all INSP Business lines. The intent is to enable 1LOD to successfully deploy and operate mitigating key controls; fully understand and correctly treat the root cause of relevant local operational risk issues and events; and elevate any RR matters when needed. Ensure any RR related concern with key controls, critical issues, events, incidents and material change programmes are understood and escalated as needed for appropriate and timely resolution and RR related initiatives are not adversely affected due to poor planning, testing and approach during the delivery.


• Provide technical guidance to support development and completion of Enterprise Risk and Regulatory reporting obligations (e.g. RAS, Risk Profile Reporting, RMM, Board reporting where relevant, etc)


• Monitor the local external environment to get early sight of emerging risks and provide detailed guidance on controls required to mitigate against them. Build and maintain relevant cross-organisation and industry relationships.


• Provide SME and Support Data related initiatives including but not limited to data usage, storage and movement to ensure data controls are appropriately in place to evidence complete with various policy and regulatory requirements.


• Conduct Impacts: Oversee, elevate and provide guidance on the identification of conduct impacts across RR and 1LOD activities, including where control weaknesses and risk events impact the delivery of good outcomes.


• Additional specific responsibilities may be added to this role profile at the direction of the CRCO.

To be successful you will need:

• Extensive experience in enterprise risk management and resilience risk stewardship, including Technology, Cyber Security, Data, Third-Party and related risk domains.


• Strong practical knowledge of control environments, governance frameworks, risk oversight and operational resilience requirements.Broad business and industry awareness, including regulatory, geopolitical, technological, threat, competitor and external risk landscapes.


• Proven ability to provide robust second-line oversight and challenge, applying sound judgement to assess regulatory, financial and reputational impacts.


• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders across Risk, 1LOD, Technology, Data, Third-Party Management, regulators and industry bodies.


• Strong governance and analytical capabilities, including producing high-quality documentation and evidence for senior forums and regulators, while managing complex and varied workloads; a relevant university degree or professional qualification is advantageous.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by HSBC Life (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.