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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Work in friendly, supportive teams.
• Build lasting value in your community.
• Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation.
• Help people grow their assets, business, and investments.
• Take your learning as far as you can.
• Working across Finance, Risk, Compliance, Technology, Internal Audit and External Audit, you will connect policy with practice and insight with action.
• 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.
• Serve as the key Finance Operations partner to Operational Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, External Audit and other control functions.
• 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, approval workflows and maker-checker controls across procurement and supplier-management processes, ensuring alignment with current policies and supported by clear documentation and approvals.
• Keep policies, procedures and operating guides current, practical and consistently applied across relevant entities and locations.
• Oversee the timely and accurate delivery of corporate governance reporting, operational planning activities, and service-level arrangement reviews between the section and relevant entities.
• Use assurance findings, performance metrics and trend analysis to identify emerging risks and improvement opportunities.
• Build Resilience and Readiness
• Lead business continuity planning, critical-process assessments, call-tree exercises and disaster recovery testing for Finance Operations.

Who you are

• A degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Risk Management or a related discipline; relevant professional qualifications are advantageous.
• At least 10 years’ experience in finance operations, shared services, operational risk, internal controls, governance, audit or a related control function within a complex organization.
• Strong knowledge of risk and control frameworks, business continuity, data governance, audit practices and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with enterprise resource planning systems, access governance, segregation-of-duties controls and transaction monitoring is preferred.
• A practical, forward-looking mindset with strong analytical, problem-solving, communication and stakeholder-management skills.

OCBC Bank

OCBC Bank is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance).

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Ocbc Singapore and Bos Singapore.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance