Risk Management Lead - Hong Kong/ Singapore

Posted 17 Days Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
Provides senior risk oversight across APAC business, platform, and legal entity activities. Partners with stakeholders on risk, controls, governance, regulatory matters, and management reporting. Drives remediation of material issues, supports strategic change and platform evolution, and strengthens accountability across risk lines. Requires regional expertise, executive presence, sound judgment, and experience navigating complex, cross-border, multi-entity environments, particularly in Singapore, Hong Kong, or Greater China.
Summary Generated by Built In

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: 

  • 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

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: 

  • 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

Skills Required

  • 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 ability to communicate with clarity, brevity, and authority
  • Practical, solutions-oriented approach while maintaining risk discipline
  • 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
  • Experience in Operational Risk, Markets Risk, Liquidity Risk, Risk Governance, or Legal Entity/Branch Risk Oversight
  • Familiarity with APAC regulatory environments, especially Singapore, Hong Kong, or Greater China
  • Experience supporting 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 business-specific and enterprise governance topics
  • Prior experience in a regional role with multi-country coverage

BNY Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about BNY and has not been reviewed or approved by BNY.

  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive options with a $0‑premium plan for eligible lower earners, expanded mental‑health support with personalized therapy, and strong income protection through short‑ and long‑term disability. These features have been recently enhanced and are paired with dental and vision coverage.
  • Parental & Family Support — Parental leave provides 16 weeks of fully paid time for all parents, with added support such as adoption assistance. This breadth offers strong coverage for major family events.
  • Retirement Support — The 401(k) program includes a company match and Roth options to support long‑term savings. Additional financial programs like tuition assistance and savings vehicles complement retirement readiness.

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HQ: New York, NY
41,739 Employees

What We Do

We help make money work for the world — managing it, moving it and keeping it safe. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world’s financial system, we touch nearly 20% of the world’s investable assets. Today we help over 90% of Fortune 100 companies and nearly all the top 100 banks globally access the money they need. For 240 years we have partnered alongside our clients to create solutions that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.

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