Associate Director

Roles & Responsibilities

Role Purpose

The role is part of the First Line Risk function supporting, advising and overseeing Asset management business in Singapore to help achieving business objectives, meet fiduciary duties to client and to comply with regulatory norms. Chief Control Office provides proactive support and guidance to management and staff across business and functional areas, to ensure that risks are effectively identified and managed in accordance with the enterprise-wide risk management framework.

The role will be critical to navigate the complex regulatory and operational risk environment in our ambitious growth efforts through

various step-up activities under “Asia Wealth” Strategy as we look to accelerate our growth in the region. Given Ambitious Growth strategy, it’s important that first line control function is set up to the required strength and with right skill sets for safe and sustainable growth and to ensure that all regulatory obligations are seamlessly met and delivered.

Key responsibilities include but not limited to :

• Risk Advisory, risk governance and helping management in key risk-based decision making.
• Effective senior stakeholder engagement across the business lines, departments, including 2LOD Stewards and Audit.
• Assisting and advising in key transformation programmes.
• Design review of products, business proposals and other client and business initiatives and to help set up suitable operational framework for de-risked delivery
• Pro-active, insightful and robust risk identification, review and challenge based on internal and external insights
• Striving for continuous improvement and standardization of our processes, becoming an advocate for the adoption of Non-Financial Risk framework,
• Ensure that our processes are fair to clients and can deliver consistent client outcomes.
• Assist AMSG EXCO and the broader AMSG employees in seamless embedding of key attributes of NFR Framework which includes but not limited to promoting ownership, understanding and forward-looking view of key risks, no surprise culture and sound risk-based decision making for sustainable growth.
• Drive and maintain high standards of risk governance within first line and identify key gaps in the, navigate complex metric environment to agree actions to close the gap, help AMSG EXCO to de-risk, raise dispensation or risk accept etc.
• Build continuous assurance on key vectors of risks and remain SME on Business process outcomes, Group policies on those process and lead and support on key deliverables of framework like RCAs, KRIs, CMAs etc.

Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications :

Tell employers what skills you have

Communication

Asset Management

Relationship Management Skills

Risk Governance

ability to influence

Risk Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Adaptability

Risk Advisory

Decision Making