VP, Risk and Controls - Retail Banking & Wealth

HSBC; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Singapore invites a senior professional to join as VP, Risk and Controls for Retail Banking & Wealth. Lead QC teams, drive risk and control design, and ensure regulatory compliance across IWPB and 2LoD activities.

Engage senior stakeholders and steer improvements in risk culture. Role focuses on end-to-end risk management, control ownership, and resilience across Retail Banking & Wealth, with a hybrid work arrangement in Singapore.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, 5+ years’ experience in risk and controls; AML qualifications such as ICA Diploma, ACAMS or IBF are advantageous.
• Leadership experience across front-line and risk roles with AML/KYC and operational resilience knowledge.
• Strong risk acumen and ability to identify issues and deliver improvements.
• Confident communicator who can engage senior stakeholders and challenge the status quo.

Responsibilities

• Lead QC analysts, ensure checks meet SLAs and report quality-score MI to Business Heads and Risk forums.
• Tabulate quarterly QC results and provide RM scorecard ratings to onshore/offshore teams.
• Develop and implement risk and control processes with Risk Stewards aligned with regulatory requirements.
• Articulate business risk profile, control design, operating effectiveness and monitoring plans.
• Identify and address control weaknesses and emerging risks, support risk governance.
• Manage IBS assessments, continuity planning, testing and guidance to Business Service Owners.
• Represent IWPB at Operational Resilience forums and coordinate with Incident Owners.
• Identify themes through back-book reviews and ensure regulatory reporting meets standards.

Skills

Leadership

AML/KYC knowledge

Operational resilience

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Risk and controls

Influencing senior stakeholders

Education

Bachelor’s degree

ICA Diploma/ACAMS/IBF (advantageous)

Job description

VP, Risk and Controls - Retail Banking & Wealth

Location: Singapore, 01, SG, 117439

Brand: HSBC

Area of Interest:

Role Workstyle: Hybrid Worker

Date: 22 Sept 2026

Some careers have more impact than others.

Ifyou’relooking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valuedyou’llbe. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities,supportand rewards that will take you further.

In International Wealth and Premier Banking, we serve41 million customersglobally, including 6.7million who areinternational, from retail customers toultra highnet worth individuals and their families. We help our customersto takecare of their day-to-day finances andto manage, protect and grow their wealth. Our international network and breadth ofexpertiseenable us to deliver on HSBC’s purpose ofopening upa 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 key areas of operations include Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Asset Management, Global Private Banking, Insurance, and Chief OperatingOffice.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a VP, Risk and Controls - Retail Banking & Wealth.

In this role you will:

• Lead QC analysts, ensure checks meet agreed SLAs, report quality-score MI to Business Heads and Regional BFCR, and provide monthly updates at Risk and AO Forums.
• Tabulate quarterly QC results and provide RM scorecard ratings; share findings with onshore and offshore teams each quarter.
• Develop and implement risk and control processes with Risk Stewards (2LoD), aligned with regulatory requirements, internal standards and the Group Operational Risk Management Framework.
• Enable clear and consistent articulation of the business risk profile, including key-control design, operating effectiveness, health, monitoring plans, reporting and oversight.
• Identify, assess and escrow control weaknesses, anomalies, emerging and aggregated risks that may breach tolerance; perform RCA scoping, refresh assessments and support risk appetite and governance activities.
• Support end-to-end management of IWPB Important Business Services (IBS), including IBS assessments, asset-level continuity planning, testing, vulnerability follow-up, timely completion and guidance to Business Service Owners.
• Represent IWPB at Operational Resilience forums, coordinate IBS inputs and collaborate with Incident Owners to ensure incidents are logged and reported within SLA; review and challenge root causes and remediation actions.
• Identify thematic issues through back-book reviews, coordinate effective action plans with business units, and ensure regulatory reporting, including PDPC submissions, meets required standards and deadlines.

To be successful you will need:

• Leadership experience across front-line and risk roles, with strong AML/KYC and operational resilience knowledge.
• Proven problem-solving skills, applying lateral thinking and pragmatic solutions.
• Strong understanding of IWPB products, services and business operations.
• Excellent risk acumen, with the ability to identify issues and deliver improvement plans.
• Confident communicator and influencer who can engage senior stakeholders and constructively challenge the status quo.
• Bachelor’s degree, 5+ years’ experience in risk and controls; AML qualifications such as ICA Diploma, ACAMS or IBF are advantageous.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by HSBC Bank (Singapore) Limited.