Senior Manager, Risk Governance - Digital Assets

Senior Manager, Risk Governance - Digital Assets

Requisition Number: 48361 Job Location: Singapore, SGP Work Type: Office Working Employment Type: Permanent Posting

Start Date:

16/02/2026 Posting End Date: 03/03/2026

The role will be part of the Country Risk Governance team working very closely with the Country / Cluster OTCR team acting as the 2nd line of defence. The role will be critical in identifying and assessing Digital Assets (DA) risks and ensuring risk mitigation actions are implemented by the respective product teams. The DA ecosystem comprises of cryptocurrencies, tokenisation, DeFi and blockchain based technologies etc.,

and the ecosystem will enhance / supplement the bank's core product range. The key responsibilities include implementing the bank’s risk management frameworks (ERMF/OTCR) and ensure the DA ecosystem aligns with the bank’s overall risk appetite and objectives.

• Support and at times, lead in delivering a strategic risk assessment of the Group’s DA activities, including consideration for DA in Risk Appetite by relevant Principal Risk Types Risk Framework Owners, and the associated risk returns for its DA activities.
• Critically assess and provide feedback on DA initiatives to support strategic and regulatory objectives.
• Uphold the integrity of risk, in particular, ensuring that operational risks are properly assessed, that risk / return and cost / benefit decisions are made transparently on the basis of proper assessment, and are controlled in accordance with Risk Appetite.
• Provide practical implementation guidance on Risk including OTCR Policy & Standard in an effective and consistent manner.
• Identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risks related to the daily operations.
• In conjunction with first line of defence (1
  
  LOD), ensure any concerns on key controls, operational risk events and its risk impact are understood and escalated on a timely manner.
• Drive comprehensive, high quality root cause analysis of operational risk events, review and provide robust challenge on remedial action plans proposed by 1
  
  LOD Risk / Control Owners.
• Ensure new and material change in products / services / processes conforms with the Transaction Processing Policy, Change Management Policy, and Product Governance Policy.
• Oversee and monitor the execution of inherent and residual risk ratings as per the Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) Framework by 1
  
  LOD.
• Ensure local regulatory requirements are met pertaining to risk including operational risk management, prudential standards and governance and operational standards.
• Role requires a combination of expertise in financial services, blockchain systems, digital asset products, regulatory compliance, and risk management frameworks

• Ensure effective management of operational risks to ensure compliance with applicable internal policies, and external laws and regulations.
• Develop key risk indicators (KRIs) and risk control self-assessments (RCSAs) to monitor operational risks.
• Establish and maintain incident management and escalation procedures to address operational failures.
• Continuously improve the operational efficiencies and effectiveness of risk management and compliance processes.

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.
• Uphold and reinforce the independence of the Risk function from those whose primary responsibility is to focus on maximizing revenues and profits.
• Lead through example and embed the applicable and appropriate Standard Chartered values and Code of Conduct in the Risk function to drive adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations among employees.
• Foster an open environment to stimulate creativity and develop innovative solution to supports banks aspiration for DA.
• Support the delivery and design of training and development of people for DA Risk Management

• Familiar with ERMF and associated DA Framework, policies and standards
• Conduct, at least annually, the Risk Appetite Refresh across all risk types including Operational Risk and monitor the approved metrics on ongoing basis…