Business Risk & Control Senior Officer

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, Thailand and Vietnam, 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
We design and provide products and services that empower our customers to enjoy greater banking convenience while they extract more value from their money. In particular, we are focused on promoting and developing healthy saving and investment practices across generations.
Job Objectives
PFS Business Risk & Control Management (BRCM) has end-to-end line of sight into all aspects of the Retail Banking and to provide expertise, proactive support to all PFS areas in managing and mitigating operational risks and executing risk and control responsibilities as a First Line of Defense function.
Responsibilities
• Identifies, evaluates, and manages potential risks arising from the definition of business strategy, development of new products and services, changes in regulations or internal policies, or from business-led changes.
• Participates in the application of operational risk policies, technology and tools, and governance processes to create lasting solutions for minimizing losses from failed internal processes, inadequate controls, and emerging risks.
• Contributes to risk assessments and drives actions to address the root causes that persistently lead to operational risk losses by challenging both historical and proposed practices.
• Facilities and ensures Issue Management Quality Standards are met for issues documented. Manages and drives the incident management process from Start to Finish
• Leverage communication and influencing skills to guide issue and corrective action plan owners and issue managers during times of distress during the issue management process.
• Keeps abreast of the organization's operational processes and best practices for business strategy.
• Builds partnerships with supported Line of Businesses Operations leaders, process owners, client experience leaders, control leaders, and Training, so that efforts are aligned with strategy and department efforts, regular two-way communication exists, downstream impacts are considered, and business solutions are optimized.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.