About this Digital Assets Risk, Group Risk Management role at OCBC Bank
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.
About the Role
We are seeking seasoned senior Digital Asset Risk professionals to lead and drive the risk management of our digital-asset and blockchain-enabled business. This team will work actively with various stakeholders of the Group in managing the various risks in this business. The role is responsible for establishing and/or integrating digit-asset and blockchain risk considerations into our risk taxonomies, assessment methodologies, control standards, governance processes, and reporting frameworks, ensuring consistency with the OCBC’s broader risk management approach.
A core accountability of this role is to define, deliver and manage the OCBC’s digital asset risk appetite, translating strategic objectives and regulatory expectations into coherent risk appetite statements, quantitative limits, KRIs, and escalation thresholds that are aligned with enterprise risk principles.
Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will ensure that digital‑asset risks are assessed, governed, and monitored using the same disciplined standards applied across OCBC, while appropriately reflecting the unique characteristics of digital-asset markets, custody models, and blockchain‑based technologies.
What You Do
Risk Governance & Frameworks
Establish risk appetite and KRIs for digital-asset activities; Establish and integrate digital-asset risk into the Risk Management Framework spanning market, liquidity, credit/counterparty, operational/technology, information security, custody/key management, third-party, compliance/AML/CTF/sanctions and conduct risks.
Risk Identification, Assessment & Monitoring
Coordinate and support risk assessments for new tokens, protocols, and counterparties; lead product risk reviews and risk assessments.
Work closely with business and functional stakeholders on understanding, identifying and managing the end-to-end risks from the digital assets business.
Design stress scenarios (e.g., extreme volatility, chain reorganizations, depeg events, protocol exploits, exchange insolvencies) and conduct impact analyses across P&L, liquidity, and operations.
Establish additional control requirements for digital-asset activities.
Design and lead RCSA (Risk Control Self-Assessment), control library, and risk registers for digital-asset related processes
Regulatory & Compliance Alignment
Monitor regulatory developments and ensure adherence to applicable standards
Coordinate responses to regulatory inquiries, thematic reviews, and internal/external audits; maintain evidence and documentation for governance forums.
Risk Reporting & Committees
Produce clear, data-driven risk MI and dashboards for senior management and Risk Committees; present emerging risks, trends, and remediation status.
Drive timely issue remediation and action tracking with control owners; facilitate effective challenge and independent oversight.
People Leadership & Influence
Develop programme to uplift risk teams on digital asset related activities
Provide proactive and constructive challenge to business leaders; influence decision-making with data and clear narratives.
Who You Are
Experience: 8–12+ years in risk management within financial services or crypto-native organizations, with at least 4–6 years directly covering digital-assets or blockchain-related products. High energy, communicative and able to join the dots.
Technical & Domain Knowledge:
Deep understanding of crypto market structure (CeFi/DeFi), token economics, custody architectures, consensus mechanisms, and on-chain analytics.
Familiarity with crypto-specific risk events (depegs, oracle/manipulation risk, bridge exploits, MEV, smart contract vulnerabilities) and how they translate to financial/operational risk.
Hands-on with risk MI/analytics; comfortable with data tooling (Excel/BI; SQL/Python a plus).
Frameworks: Working knowledge of enterprise risk, operational risk, model risk, and information security frameworks; audit-ready documentation skills.
Communication: Executive-level stakeholder management; ability to synthesize complex topics into concise, decision-ready insights.
Education & Certifications: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field; advanced degree and relevant certifications are advantageous.
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.
