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Overview:
This position assists the Head of Risk in providing risk oversight, including operational risk, market and liquidity risk, and credit portfolio management for the Hong Kong Branch.
Responsibilities
- Review and recommend enhancements to the integrated risk management framework, policies, and procedures by keeping abreast of regulatory requirements.
- Develop, maintain, and implement internal controls to minimize overall risks in accordance with regulatory and internal requirements.
- Regularly perform operational risk reviews and validations for various business units; provide actionable recommendations to enhance control effectiveness.
- Oversee risk exposures, ensuring related risk limits, thresholds, and ratios are monitored and reported accurately. Identify material risks, propose mitigation strategies across market and liquidity risks, analyze portfolio performance, and perform stress testing.
- Prepare high-quality presentation materials to facilitate management meetings and execute ad-hoc projects assigned by the supervisor.
- Liaise with frontline units and Head Office in implementing risk controls, ensuring all identified issues are addressed in a timely manner.
Skills & Experience We Are Looking For:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Risk Management, Statistics, Quantitative Analysis, or a related discipline.
- Professional qualifications such as FRM and/or CFA are an advantage.
- Core or Professional level qualification under the Enhanced Competency Framework (ECF) for Banking Practitioners in relevant stream(s) is preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of risk management experience in the banking industry.
- Solid understanding of operational risk frameworks, control effectiveness, global market products, and related market risk controls.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently with a high level of integrity.
- Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Excellent command of both written and spoken English and Chinese.
About Hong Leong Bank
We are a leading financial institution in Malaysia backed by a century of entrepreneurial heritage. Providing comprehensive financial services guided by a Digital-at-the-Core ethos has earned us industry recognition and accolades for our innovative approach in making banking simpler and more effortless for our customers. Our digital and physical offerings span across a vast nationwide network in Malaysia, strengthened with an expanding regional presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.
We seek to strike a balance between diversity, inclusion and merit to achieve our mission of infusing diversity in thinking and skillsets into our organisation. Candidates are assessed based on merit and potential, in line with our mission to attract and recruit the best talent available. Expanding on our “Digital at the Core” ethos, we are progressively digitising the employee journey and experience to provide a strong foundation for our people to drive life-long learning, achieve their career aspirations and grow talent from within our organisation.
Realise your full potential at Hong Leong Bank by applying now.
