Description
In this role, you'll provide senior risk oversight and challenge across business, platform, and legal entity activities in APAC. You'll act as a trusted partner to business, platform, and functional stakeholders on key risk, control, and governance matters.
Responsibilities:
- Provide senior risk oversight and challenge across business, platform, and legal entity activities in APAC
- Act as a trusted partner to business, platform, and functional stakeholders on key risk, control, and governance matters
- Support governance, committee, and management reporting with clear, decision-oriented risk assessment
- Drive follow-up and closure on material risk issues, control themes, and remediation items
- Help ensure appropriate legal entity and regulatory governance, particularly where local oversight expectations are significant
- Contribute to execution of strategic initiatives, business change, and platform evolution from a risk and controls perspective
- Provide integrated coverage across 1LoD, 2LoD, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure effective issue escalation and decision-making
- Support regional leadership on emerging risk themes, regulatory matters, and jurisdiction-specific sensitivities
- Strengthen discipline around ownership, accountability, and risk governance execution across relevant portfolios
Requirements:
- Strong APAC experience in risk management, risk governance, or risk oversight
- Credibility operating with senior stakeholders across business, Risk, Compliance, and Control functions
- Ability to navigate complex matrix environments with multiple legal entities, platforms, and business lines
- Strong judgment on governance, escalation, and regulatory-sensitive matters
- Executive presence and the ability to communicate with clarity, brevity, and authority
- A practical, solutions-oriented approach without compromising risk discipline; AI and system first thinking
- Experience handling cross-border issues and balancing regional consistency with local regulatory expectations
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive execution in fast-moving environments
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in one or more of the following: Operational Risk, Markets Risk, Liquidity Risk, Risk Governance, or Legal Entity/Branch Risk Oversight
- Familiarity with APAC regulatory environments, especially Singapore and/or Hong Kong; Greater China
- Experience supporting businesses or platforms such as Global Payments & Trade, Markets, Trade Services, or related infrastructure/platform environments
- Exposure to committee governance, regulatory engagement, and management reporting
- Experience supporting strategic change, transformation, or business/platform expansion initiatives
- Comfort working across both business-specific and enterprise governance topics
- Prior experience in a regional role with multi-country coverage preferred