Job Overview
This role is central to the firm's governance framework and has direct engagement with senior management and regulatory stakeholders.
You will be responsible for driving enterprise-wide risk oversight, ensuring the effectiveness of risk management frameworks, and supporting the firm's ongoing compliance with MAS expectations, while enabling sustainable growth in the digital asset ecosystem.
Job Responsibilities:
- Execute and continuously enhance the firm's risk governance framework, ensuring risk management policies and frameworks remain robust, up-to-date, and aligned with business growth
- Ensure key risk matters including emerging risks, regulatory developments, and incidents, are appropriately identified, escalated, and governed by the Risk Management Committee (RMC)
- Proactively identify, assess, and report on both existing and emerging risks across the organization, particularly in the context of digital assets and evolving regulatory landscapes
- Design, implement, and monitor effective risk controls, ensuring systematic tracking and mitigation of key risk exposures
- Maintain and continuously update the enterprise risk register; conduct risk and control assessments across business processes, clearly articulating risk exposures and recommending practical mitigation strategies to senior management
- Oversee the incident management process end-to-end, ensuring timely remediation, thorough root cause analysis, and implementation of preventive measures
- Develop and maintain key risk indicators (KRIs) and support the definition and monitoring of the firm's risk appetite framework
- Facilitate risk awareness through presentations, training sessions, and workshops on risk identification, assessment, and mitigation
- Partner cross-functionally with stakeholders across product, engineering, operations, and compliance to understand interdependencies and assess risk implications at both strategic and operational levels
Job Requirements:
- Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience in risk management within a financial institution; experience in digital assets, crypto, or fintech environments is highly preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, or a related discipline
- Strong understanding of risk management frameworks and regulatory expectations, particularly MAS requirements
- Solid knowledge of operational risk management, internal controls, and governance practices
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to translate complex risks into actionable insights
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders across different levels of the organization
- High level of ownership, adaptability, and a collaborative, hands-on mindset
- Strong interest and passion for the digital asset / Web3 space
