VP, Business Risk & Control, Business Banking

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

About the Department

Job Responsibilities

The position reports directly to the Team Lead, Business Risk & Control, Business Banking.  The candidate is responsible to mitigate potential financial crime and regulatory risks that poses to the Bank according to the regulations and internal policies.

Compliance related matters (including AML/KYC, Regulatory related)

• Collaborate with compliance and Wholesales Banking Business Risk and Control team and relevant stakeholders to ensure appropriate operationalization of Group and local guidelines.
• Coordinate and work with stakeholders to conduct gap analysis on regulatory policy and guidelines issued by country regulator, MAS and Group Compliance against existing implemented guidelines and processes.
• Conduct periodic review of the BU internal SOP, initiate changes to the SOP in accordance with the regulatory guidelines and processes, ensure gaps identified in previous audit reviews are addressed and updated to the SOP where applicable. Highlight potential future audit issues to relevant stakeholders to ensure appropriate mitigating actions can be implemented.

BB Governance Advisory and Assurance

• Provide centralized oversight; guided and consistent handling approach; recommendations and mitigating controls to BB frontline on customer relationship review cases triggered under Anti-financial crime; Sanction; Business Outside of Risk Appetite, and also the transactional escalation by payment center.

• Review and investigate the cases to ensure an accurate, timely and comprehensive investigations outcome, effective communication with branch/business unit frontline to collate information in support of decision making with zero (or minimal) error rate to ensure quality.
• Identify inefficiencies in existing cases escalation processes and provide feedback to relevant stakeholders to support achievement of operational excellency.
• Support the team in executing special projects as and when needed.
• Regulatory breach reporting.

Risk Culture

• Support the Team Lead in driving the initiatives to raise risk awareness within BB.

 i. Monitoring of BB portfolio quality against established criteria (e.g CRR exit, core systems data quality) and highlight potential future audit findings and recommending measures to improve the onboarding quality or detection capabilities.

ii. Partner with BB Academy to set up a structure training program for BB Sales/Non Sales in the area of risk management particularly AML & KYC related matters and BNM Regulations requirements

iii. Partner with Sales Performance Management and BB Head to ensure effective execution of BB consequences management.

• Drive MRAs and Process improvement.

Job Requirements

• Professionally qualified – Graduate or Postgraduate in Banking/Finance or related discipline.
• Minimum 8-10 years of experience in either banking or financial institution with responsibility in managing compliance risk especially in financial crime compliance (fraud / sanctions/ anti money laundering) and BNM regulations compliance.
• Knowledge of legislative/regulatory requirements of banking and financial institutions, banking products and AML/CFT are a key requirement.
• Demonstrate ability to effectively communicate, both orally and in writing, through all levels of the organization.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Attentive to details, possess investigative nature and the ability to deal with potentially contentious issues effectively.
• Able to work independently as well as in a team.

Be a part of UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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