Overview

WHO WE ARE:

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations 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. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

 We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver 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.

Executive Director, Regional and Synergy Initiatives

Why Join

Group Operational Excellence (GOE) ​:

Our mission is to be the trusted advisor and partner to senior management and their teams in teams in shaping and accelerating future‑ready transformation across the organisation. We help senior stakeholders shape their strategic agenda and work closely with their leadership teams to define their strategic priorities and transformation roadmap. We also partner these leadership teams in driving their most complex cross-functional initiatives. We measure our success by the lasting value that we create for OCBC.

How you succeed

As Executive Director, Regional and Synergy Initiatives, you will play a critical role in shaping and executing Group‑wide transformation projects across OCBC’s businesses, markets, and entities. You will lead the design and embedment of transformation frameworks, operating model approaches, and ways of working that enable consistent, scalable, and high‑quality change delivery across the Group.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Greater China to influence alignment, adapt Group approaches to local market contexts, and guide the development and prioritisation of cross‑functional initiatives.

A core part of your remit is to drive the regional execution of key Group programmes — ensuring strong delivery, market readiness, and sustained adoption. You will uplift in‑country teams through mentoring and capability building, strengthen delivery maturity, and foster cross‑market collaboration that advances OCBC’s ambition to operate strongly as an integrated financial services group.

What you do

  • Design and embed transformation frameworks and operating model approaches that enable consistent and scalable change delivery across the Group.

  • Lead and oversee large‑scale, cross‑functional transformation programmes, ensuring clarity of scope, alignment across stakeholders, and disciplined execution.

  • Influence senior stakeholders across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Greater China to adapt and apply Group approaches in ways that suit local market contexts and priorities.

  • Drive regional rollout of key Group initiatives, ensuring market readiness, strong adoption, and sustained execution outcomes.

  • Mentor and uplift in‑country teams, building capabilities in operating model design, structured problem‑solving, and project leadership.

  • Foster cross‑market collaboration to share best practices, accelerate implementation, and strengthen overall delivery maturity.

  • Serve as a Group integrator, connecting people, resources, data, and capabilities to unlock synergies and support OCBC’s aspiration to operate as One Group.

Who you are

At present, we are looking for individuals with strategy and transformation experience to complement our existing team.

The candidate should offer good financial services knowledge with a ‘consulting toolkit’. The candidate must have at least 12+ years of consulting experience with a reputable firm and/or transformation division of leading financial institutions.

In an ideal candidate, we look for:

  • Proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives in matrixed environments

  • Strong knowledge of strategy planning, operating model design, process reengineering, and strategic application of AI, digital and data in enterprise transformation

  • Ability to translate data and trends into powerful strategies and compelling messaging

  • Ability to structure ambiguous problems and work across various functions

  • Effective communication skills, and ability to take complex, ambiguous topics and create simple, compelling narratives for various audiences

  • Ability to influence at senior levels and work across a wide range of functions and geographies

  • Demonstrated strategic, networking, and influencing skills

Who we are
As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations 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. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation.
But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver 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. Equal opportunity. Fair employment. Selection based on ability and fit with our culture and values. Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.

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.

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About

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.