Senior Director, Risk Management

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