Gravitas Recruitment Group
3 months ago
Risk Management Specialist - Gravitas Recruitment Group
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Company information
- Company
- Gravitas Recruitment Group
- Location
- Singapore Singapore
- Posted
- 3 months ago
Job description
Operational Risk Manager
The Operational Risk Manager plays a key role in managing and overseeing operational risk activities within the organisation, supporting senior management and front office teams. This position contributes to maintaining a strong risk culture and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards in a financial services context.
About the Company
Our client is a prominent organisation within the financial services sector, committed to fostering a strong risk culture and maintaining high standards of compliance. The company values proactive collaboration, rigorous risk management, and strategic oversight, providing a dynamic environment for professionals to develop and contribute to essential risk frameworks.
Role Overview
The Operational Risk Manager acts as a second line of defence risk partner, responsible for identifying, assessing, and challenging operational risks arising from business-as-usual activities, change initiatives, and strategic projects. The role involves leading core risk activities such as RCSA, scenario analysis, and issue remediation, while providing oversight on controls, policies, and incident management. Success in this role is demonstrated by effectively advising on risk appetite, delivering insightful risk MI, and promoting a strong risk culture through engagement and training.
Key Skills & Experience
Manage operational risk activities within a financial services environment
Act as a risk partner to senior management and front office teams
Lead and support risk management processes such as RCSA, scenario analysis, and root cause analysis
Advise on risk appetite, KRIs, and risk acceptances
Provide oversight of controls, policies, and remediation plans
Support change initiatives and strategic projects from a risk perspective
Deliver risk MI, analysis, and insights to leadership forums
Nice to Have
[Limited data provided — review with hiring manager before publishing]
Key Responsibilities
Act as a second line of defence risk partner to the Front Office and senior management
Identify, assess, and challenge material operational risks across BAU activity, change, and strategic initiatives
Lead and support core operational risk activities such as RCSA, scenario analysis, root cause analysis, and issue remediation
Advise on risk appetite, KRIs, and risk acceptances
Provide oversight and constructive challenge of controls, policies, and remediation plans
Support new business, change initiatives, and strategic projects from a risk perspective
Deliver clear risk MI, analysis, and insights to risk committees and leadership forums
Oversee incident management, policy breaches, and business continuity planning
Promote a strong risk culture through engagement and training
Requirements
Right to work in the region
Operational risk experience in financial services
On-site work environment
Employment for a minimum of 2 weeks starting from 30/07/2026
If you have the relevant skills and experience, please apply with an updated CV.
Required skills
- training
- compliance
- risk analysis
- financial services
- new business
- risk management
- engagement
- risk assessment
- root cause analysis
- incident management
- front office
- regulatory standards
- strategic projects
- cv
- risk identification
- change initiatives
- business continuity planning
- senior management
- risk appetite
- scenario analysis
- risk committees
- risk culture
- rcsa
- leadership forums
- remediation plans
- risk insights
- issue remediation
- key risk indicators (kris)
- second line of defence
- business-as-usual (bau)
- policy oversight
- risk acceptances
- policy breaches
- operational risk manager
- risk partner
- risk challenge
- controls oversight
- risk mi
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