Your role
Are you a confident decision maker and problem solver? Do you have an established working knowledge of the Singapore Banking Regulatory landscape?
We are looking for a Regulatory Relations Manager to work closely with the Head of Regulatory Relations (Singapore) to own the interface for MAS and help us:
- Support management of supervisory relationships of UBS and providing advisory services to regional and business management with respect to MAS
- Support senior regulatory managers and/or manage meetings between UBS subject matter experts and supervisors including scheduling/coordinating meetings, preparing UBS management for meetings, recording key issues and outcomes and ensuring actions are addressed promptly
- Support senior regulatory managers and/or manage supervisory reviews and inspections between UBS subject matter experts and supervisors including advising UBS management on information requests before and during the reviews and inspections, tracking findings, and providing regular status updates to various senior UBS management and governance forums. Also coordinate all necessary review meetings both internal and with the regulators
- Collaborate with other regulatory managers globally, including analyzing developments across jurisdictions to ensure consistency of approach and reporting on relevant developments for global meetings and reports.
- Pro-actively identify trends in regulatory requests and discussions and raise them to senior management to ensure strategic responses
- Prepare briefings for and brief senior management for regular and ad hoc meetings with key supervisors
- Management of information deliveries to MAS; internal coordination of responses to ad hoc queries
- Work on ad-hoc internal projects as necessary
Your team
The Group Compliance, Regulatory and Governance (GCRG) function is the competence center for coordinating external governmental and regulatory relations and overseeing strategic regulatory matters across the firm. GCRG focuses on three areas, which include Regulatory Relations, Governmental Affairs and Recovery & Resolution Planning.
Within GCRG, Regulatory Relations (RR) promotes effective relationships with UBS's key financial supervisors, coordinates UBS engagement and identifies and responds to key themes in supervisory activities across regions. RR ensures a consistent approach towards interactions with financial supervisors and regulatory advice to the business. RR has dedicated teams for Switzerland, UK, US, Germany Hong Kong and Singapore to support senior management in their interactions with the supervisors on an ongoing basis and provide targeted advice on key supervisory trends and issues. This role will be a key member of the SG RR team working under the Head of SG RR. The SG RR team will form an integral part of the global RR team and APAC GCRG team, and will work closely with C&ORC (Compliance & Operational Risk Control).
In this regard, we are looking for a suitable candidate to be part of this journey to establish and strengthen RR capabilities in Singapore.
Your expertise
- Experience in the financial services industry preferably including work experience with regulations in a finance, risk control, compliance, or internal audit department
- Experience working directly with or for the MAS an advantage
- Very strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel and Power Point)
- Excellent communication skills, with ability to build networks across a culturally diverse organization
- Execution-oriented, pro-active and having both big-picture skills and attention to details
- Execution-oriented, pro-active and having both big-picture skills and attention to details
- Capable of working under pressure whilst juggling multiple tasks in a time sensitive environment and are a strong team player
- Enthusiastic and approachable in the work place, always showing commitment and striving for excellence
