Risk Specialist (6 Month Contract)

Bank of Singapore opens doors to new opportunities.

At Bank of Singapore, we are constantly on the lookout for exceptional individuals to join our team. We promote a culture of openness, teamwork and fairness. Most importantly, we invest in our people through our programmes that develop them on both professional and personal levels. Besides attractive remuneration packages, we offer non-financial benefits and opportunities to develop your potential within OCBC Group’s global network of subsidiaries and offices. If you have passion, drive and the will to succeed, rise to the challenge today!

The team produces analytics for risk and front office users, that adds value to their day-to-day helping them understand the portfolio risk and composition. The analytics are also intended to make risk monitoring more automated and simplified, helping users to identify and understand key areas of focus from a risk perspective.

The team performs periodical stress testing of portfolios, to help calibrate risk appetite to a fast-evolving global market.

The team is also instrumental in providing thought leadership for all data analytics projects within Risk and to manage risk reporting efforts for senior leadership.

Responsibilities:

• To perform required quantitative analytics needed to support the portfolio analytics dashboards and reports
• Design and implement forward looking stress scenarios and conduct detailed analysis of the stress test results
• Foster collaboration across stakeholders to assist them in data analysis on trends and insights
• Leverage on data analytics knowledge & experience to facilitate business to uncover risk and opportunities
• Be able to independently suggest ideas for dashboard and risk reporting, based on a strong understanding of the business needs and requirement
• Provide thought leadership and assist other risk teams in terms of digitalisation efforts and visualisation tools

Requirements:

• Post Graduate degree, preferably in the field of Analytics, Statistics, Engineering, Information Technology, Data Sciences, Math or related fields.
• Proficient in Python, Power BI, VBA and SQL
• 3 to 5 years of relevant experience - preferably in Private banking, but other areas with experience in data analytics will also be considered
• Good knowledge of financial products
• Additional Experience in project management and change initiatives is helpful.
• Robust stakeholder management skills and good interpersonal skills. Ability to work confidently and collaboratively with cross-functional stakeholders of varying seniority.
• Results and detail-oriented, with strong intuitions on how to solve problems creatively and quickly
• Passionate about solving problems – possesses a relentless need for investigation and data exploration

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Who We Are

As the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, we have grown from strength to strength to become a regional financial services group.

With a deep history in Asia, we offer the most comprehensive coverage across ASEAN and Greater China, complemented with a presence in the leading economies of New York, London and Sydney.

We are the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets with one of the world’s highest credit rating (Aa1 by Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P).

We offer private banking services through our 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.

Our insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia.