Overview
Operational Risk Management
Description
Why Join
As a Business Continuity Manager, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding our organization against potential disruptions. You will implement and maintain a comprehensive business continuity and resolution planning program, ensuring that our bank is prepared to respond effectively to any challenges that may impact operations. Your efforts will minimize downtime and promote operational resilience.
How you succeed
To excel in this role, you’ll need to have a deep understanding of operational risk management and business continuity principles. You’ll work closely with various stakeholders to identify and assess potential risks, develop effective mitigation strategies, and implement business continuity plans. Your ability to analyze complex situations, think critically, and communicate effectively will be essential in driving the success of this role.
What you do
- Establish and maintain a business continuity framework that aligns with the organization’s strategic goals. This includes identifying potential risks, assessing their impacts, designing risk scenarios, and developing effective recovery strategies.
- Collaborate with business functions to create robust business continuity plans that address a variety of scenarios. Ensure these plans are regularly reviewed and updated to reflect changing circumstances.
- Oversee regular testing and exercises of business continuity plans to validate their effectiveness, meet business obligations, and identify areas for improvement to enhance overall preparedness.
- Ensure alignment and integration of business continuity management (BCM) across all business units and subsidiaries. Provide guidance on conducting Business Impact Analyses and recovery strategy planning.
- Facilitate BCM training sessions to enhance knowledge and awareness across the organization.
- Participate in and oversee the recovery progress of business units during crisis management exercises.
- Collaborate with business units to review and analyze internal, external, and system dependencies, determining adequate recovery responses for critical business services.
Who you work with
Group Risk Management works independently to protect, build, and drive our businesses. The team support good decision-making. With strong risk analysis. And a crucial, comprehensive role in sharpening our competitive edge. Optimising risk-adjusted returns. It’s about seeking and adopting best-in-class practices. Protecting the group from unforeseen losses. Keeping risk within appetite. Embracing change and managing growth in one of the world’s strongest banks.
You will be part of Group Business Continuity Management, a team within the Operational Risk Management Department and Group Risk Management Division. This is a team of professionals who plays the role of the 2nd Line of Defence playing a crucial role in safeguarding the organization from disruption and managing recovery to ensure operational continuity.
Qualifications
Who you are
- You have proven experience in Business Continuity Management or Disaster Recovery within a financial institution, including plan development, testing, and incident response.
- You are familiar with industry standards and regulations (e.g., MAS BCMG).
- Professional certifications in business continuity management (e.g., CBCP, BCCE) are preferred.
- You possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective engagement with stakeholders at all levels.
- You are resourceful, a team player, and possess strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, thriving in diverse team environments.
Who we are
Singapore’s longest established bank, we’ve been helping people and businesses get what they want from life since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.
Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Embracing technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, the entire focus of our organisation remains to be Simply Spot On. In everything we do.
And so whether you want innovate needs-based financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.
What we offer
Competitive base salary. A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle. Community initiatives. Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.
Primary Location
: Singapore
Job
: Operational Risk
Organization
: Operational Risk Management
Schedule
: Permanent
Job Posting
: 27-Mar-2025, 9:48:06 AM
About OCBC Bank
OCBC is the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, the oldest of which was founded in 1912. It is now the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.
OCBC and its subsidiaries offer a broad array of commercial banking, specialist financial and wealth management services, ranging from consumer, corporate, investment, private and transaction banking to treasury, insurance, asset management and stockbroking services.
OCBC’s key markets are Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Greater China. It has more than 570 branches and representative offices in 19 countries and regions. These include about 300 branches and offices in Indonesia under subsidiary Bank OCBC NISP, and over 90 branches and offices in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR under OCBC Wing Hang.
OCBC’s private banking services are provided by its wholly-owned subsidiary Bank of Singapore, which operates on a unique open-architecture product platform to source for the best-in-class products to meet its clients’ goals.
OCBC's insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia. Its asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors, is one of the largest private sector asset management companies in Southeast Asia.
