Director / ED Risk Management – Securities Services recruitment
Hong Kong
- Sub custody and agency clearing product
- Candidates with cash equities operational risk experience will be considered
This is a business critical role as the firm continues to expand their offering in the region.
Reporting into the Regional Head of Risk Management you will work closely with the COO for custody operations to ensure a robust corporate governance framework is in place for Asia following global policies and procedures. You will also design credit and market risk strategies implementing scorecards and trigger points, evaluating counter-party collateral and the associated risk exposure for agency clearing product whilst ensuring reputational and liquidity risk across the product set. You will also partner with the regional sales executives and heads of product management to monitor the quality of risk management tools including control self-assessment and develop the associated MIS. This is a high profile individual contributor role, and as part of planned succession, the successful candidate is expected to progress into the Regional Head of role in approximately two years.
- A minimum 10 years in financial services risk management ideally with securities services product knowledge or cash equities operations;
- The ability to stay independent and make trusted unbiased judgements even under controversial circumstances;
- superior negotiation and communication skills to manage the expectations of a demanding senior management team;
- an internationally recognised risk management qualification or MBA will be desirable.
For more information, please contact Steve Taylor on +852 2920 9122 or s.taylor@alsrecruit.com
(Ref: EF/7440)