VP, Business Risk & Control, Business Banking

VP, Business Risk & Control, Business Banking

Posting Date : 18 Jun 2025 Location :

Kuala Lumpur (City Area), Wilayah Persekutuan, MY, 50350

Company : United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Bhd

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

About the Department

Job Responsibilities

The position reports directly to the Team Lead, Business Risk & Control, Business Banking. The candidate is responsible to mitigate potential financial crime and regulatory risks that poses to the Bank according to the regulations and internal policies.

Compliance related matters (including AML / KYC, Regulatory related)

• Collaborate with compliance and Wholesales Banking Business Risk and Control team and relevant stakeholders to ensure appropriate operationalization of Group and local guidelines.
• Coordinate and work with stakeholders to conduct gap analysis on regulatory policy and guidelines issued by country regulator, MAS and Group Compliance against existing implemented guidelines and processes.
• Conduct periodic review of the BU internal SOP, initiate changes to the SOP in accordance with the regulatory guidelines and processes, ensure gaps identified in previous audit reviews are addressed and updated to the SOP where applicable. Highlight potential future audit issues to relevant stakeholders to ensure appropriate mitigating actions can be implemented.

BB Governance Advisory and Assurance

Risk Culture

i. Monitoring of BB portfolio quality against established criteria (e.g CRR exit, core systems data quality) and highlight potential future audit findings and recommending measures to improve the onboarding quality or detection capabilities.

ii. Partner with BB Academy to set up a structure training program for BB Sales / Non Sales in the area of risk management particularly AML & KYC related matters and BNM Regulations requirements

iii. Partner with Sales Performance Management and BB Head to ensure effective execution of BB consequences management.

Job Requirements