Business Function

As an Asian leader in treasury operations, DBS Global Financial Markets (GFM) extends a broad range of capabilities ranging from trading, structuring and sales in foreign exchange, interest rates, money market, credit, equity, commodities, bonds, derivatives and securities. We are a key player in various regional markets and actively make market, structure, originate, innovate and distribute a wide range of products.

Our extensive network in Asia and our growing Asian focused franchises helps expand our product outreach and deepen product penetration. Altogether, our specialists are working across our expanding branch network to offer a full range of products and exceptional levels of services to clients investing and hedging in the global markets.

Job Summary

We are seeking a dedicated and highly motived candidate for GFM New Product Approval (NPA) team. The job offers an exciting opportunity to work with trading, structuring, sales, and arranging to enable new product end to end and to govern risk assessment collaboratively with supporting units including Market & Liquidity Risk, Credit Risk, Finance, Operation, Technology, Legal and Compliance. The candidate will also work on process re-engineering initiatives to improve product time-to-market using agentic AI solution.

Responsibilities

As a NPA champion, lead New Product Approval process end to end

Product ideation with sales and product structuring team
Pre-assessment of process type, impact analysis, complexity, cost and timeline estimation
Engagement and closely follow up with supporting units for assessment, feedback and solution iterations
Drive model validation pre-validation and post-validation processes, work closely with FO Quant and Model validation team to ensure pricing model coverage
Drive system enhancement, UAT and implementation to ensure fast time to market and product launch
Stakeholder management for expectation alignment, timeline management, prioritization, risk escalation and mitigation plan implementations
Collaborate with supporting units to ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are well addressed
Applying first principal thinking in collaborating with FO & SUs to foresee issues and gaps, tighten and refine process control to ensure end-to-end risk governance
Support FO in product launch preparation in NPA approval, regulatory approval and other to-the-market implementation
Lead post implementation review process with FO and supporting units for process finetuning and issue resolution

Manage the end-to-end risk due diligence of new products/services in his/her line of business to ensure it is aligned with the Bank's requirements
Main liaison with product teams and sign-off groups to ensure seamless review, timely sign-off/ approval of NPA proposals; provide timely updates and ensure proper escalation
Act as a gatekeeper to ensure quality of NPA documentation
Involve in ad hoc projects as a NPA stream representative and provide UAT support
Manage/support NPA related control processes such as first trade monitoring, NPA dashboard reporting, product scope and condition monitoring & etc
Collaborate with GFM COD Strategic Project Team and GFM COD Business Management Office to support FO by providing product insights and process guidance
Partner with GFM COD Operational Risk, auditors for process review & finetuning

Requirements

Strong product knowledge of all asset classes including Bonds, Equities, FX/MM, Interest Rates, Commodity and their derivatives is a must
Strong verbal, written and presentation skills and confident in working with front office and senior stakeholders is essential
Personality and positive attribute that reflects enthusiasm, willing to work and collaborate with others, and energetic
Good team player with growth mindset, able to see big picture and deep dive into topics in both broadness and depths, and go extra mile
Sound organisational skills and ability to be disciplined with planning and delivering deadlines
Degree in Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance or similar academic discipline is preferred
Murex expertise and implementation project experience is an adding merit
Independent self-starter with ability to multi-task and cope with frequent context switching

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We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and the professional advantages of a dynamic environment that supports your development and recognises your achievements.

Primary Location

Singapore-DBS Asia Central

Job

COO Office/Business Mgt & Support

Schedule

Regular

Job Type

Full-time

Job Posting

Dec 2, 2025, 11:25:20 AM

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