VP, Risk & Governance Team Lead, GFCA-Finance Operations at OCBC

Job description

WHO WE ARE: As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires. Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future. We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here. Why Join This role offers broad visibility and meaningful impact, with opportunities to shape standards across a global operating environment, influence senior stakeholders, lead a specialised team, and strengthen the resilience, insight and future readiness of Finance Operations. Finance Operations is at the heart of trusted execution. In this role, you will position risk and governance as business enablers, helping teams operate with confidence, adapt to change and protect the organisation as it grows and transforms. This is more than a control oversight role. You will lead the Risk & Governance agenda for Finance Operations, setting standards that strengthen operational discipline across entities and locations globally. You will influence how risks are anticipated, controls evolve and leaders make informed decisions. Working across Finance, Risk, Compliance, Technology, Internal Audit and External Audit, you will connect policy with practice and insight with action. You will also champion smarter ways of working by using automation, analytics, dashboards and appropriately governed AI-enabled tools to enhance monitoring, reporting and operational efficiency. How it works You proactively identify and mitigate emerging risks, implement practical and sustainable controls, and translate governance requirements into consistent business practices. By providing actionable insights that support informed decision-making and partnering closely with stakeholders, you help balance effective risk management with business enablement, establishing the team as a trusted advisor that protects the organization while driving progress. What you do Set the Risk and Control Agenda Identify the operational risks that matter most to Finance Operations and evaluate whether mitigating controls are well designed and operating effectively. Direct risk registers, operational risk indicators, dispensations, control assurance and sample testing, focusing resources on higher-risk areas and ensuring issues are escalated and resolved. Provide governance oversight of third-party risk, access controls, segregation of duties, transaction monitoring and control incidents. Coordinate relevant compliance, technology, cyber, end-user computing, personal data and annual assurance activities. Anticipate the control implications of system upgrades, process redesign, organizational change and transformation initiatives, ensuring controls evolve with the business. Serve as the key Finance Operations partner to Operational Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, External Audit and other control functions. Strengthen Data and Process Integrity Set consistent governance standards for Finance Operations data, including data quality monitoring, attestations, record retention and issue resolution. Oversee the integrity of supplier, customer and other master data, including independent verification of sensitive information where required. Provide oversight of key system parameters, master data classifications, item category account mappings