Third-Party Resilience Manager

Job Description

AVP, Third Party BCM Resilience Manager, Group Business Continuity Management, Group COO | DBS Bank

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at DBS Bank, located in Singapore, Singapore. DBS Bank is a leading financial services group in Asia. This position is vital for bolstering the Group’s resilience against disruptions by effectively managing critical third-party dependencies, ensuring the continuity of the Bank’s essential services and business operations. It plays a key part in adapting to new and evolving risks in the digital landscape and meeting regulatory expectations.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Regular, Full time
• Location: In-person, Singapore, Singapore

• Team: Group Business Continuity Management, Group COO
• Mission: To ensure critical third-party dependencies supporting the Bank’s BCPs and CBSs are assessed, governed, and monitored to strengthen third-party BCM execution and address emerging resilience risks.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Drive Third Party BCM Program Execution: Support the delivery of Third Party BCM requirements, governance, attestations, resilience assessments, assurance activities, and regulatory commitments across various entities.
• Enhance Third-Party Resilience Capabilities: Improve dependency mapping, concentration risk assessment, resilience analytics, dashboards, and process automation for Third Party BCM processes.
• Address Emerging Resilience Risks: Support the development of capabilities to assess and manage third-party resilience implications from GenAI, cloud service providers, digital ecosystems, and shared industry infrastructure.
• Coordinate Reviews and Assessments: Coordinate annual attestations, assurance reviews, resilience assessments, and follow-up actions across locations, including reviewing recovery strategies and continuity evidence.
• Prepare Management and Regulatory Reporting: Prepare management updates, governance materials, and regulatory inputs relating to third-party resilience risks, issues, remediation actions, and provide insights on third-party resilience and concentration risks.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Mid-senior level professional with a minimum of 7 years of experience in Business Continuity Management (BCM), Operational Resilience, Third Party Risk Management, Outsourcing Governance, technology risk, or operational risk.
• Experience: Proven experience in third-party resilience activities, including attestations, resilience assessments, Extended Disruption Plans, recovery strategies, and assurance reviews. Working knowledge of MAS requirements relating to outsourcing, technology risk, business continuity, operational resilience, and third-party risk is essential, alongside experience in dashboarding, data analytics, or process automation.
• Skills: Third-party resilience program management, risk assessment and governance, regulatory compliance (MAS), data analytics and process automation.
• Bonus: Exposure to GenAI, cloud, digital ecosystems, or emerging technology resilience topics would be advantageous.