Manager, Risk Management - AI(India/ Malaysia)

This role could be based in India and Malaysia. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

• The role is responsible for supporting, coordinating, and strengthening the Bank’s control environment for AI-amplified risks across key risk domains, including Technology, Cyber, Data & Privacy, Compliance & Conduct, Operational Risk, and Third-Party & Concentration Risk. The objective is to ensure that AI-enabled products, platforms, processes, tools, and ways of working are assessed, governed, monitored, and controlled in line with the Bank’s risk appetite, Group policies and standards, applicable AI requirements, regulatory expectations and external obligations.

• This role is involved in supporting the execution of the Bank’s AI-amplified risk management agenda and assisting with the coordination of activities across existing risk domains impacted by AI. Reporting to the Lead, AI Risk Management, the primary roles are focused on:

Processes
• Embed AI-amplified risk considerations into existing domain processes, standards, and control routines. • Assess where AI adoption changes processes and relevant control expectations, ownership, evidence, or escalation requirements. • Support process owners in uplifting controls, and procedures for AI-impacted activities • Coordinate dependencies between AI Governance, Technology, Cyber, Data, Compliance, and Third-Party risk teams. • Track delivery of agreed process and control uplift actions

Risk Management
• Identify, assess, and challenge AI-amplified risks across existing risk domains. • Support materiality assessments, control gap reviews, and residual risk assessments for AI-impacted processes, tools, platforms, vendors, and use cases. • Provide clear risk opinions and recommendations to support control uplift, risk acceptance, remediation, and escalation decisions. • Monitor AI-related issues, control gaps, incidents, risk acceptances, and management actions. • Support integration of AI-amplified risks into RCSA, control testing, MI, KRIs, KCIs, and BAU risk reporting.

Governance
• Manage AI risk workstreams and ensure delivery remains aligned to agreed scope, timelines, and governance expectations in partnership with central AI Risk governance teams.
• Prepare governance updates, executive summaries, committee materials, and decision papers on AI-amplified risk topics.
• Escalate material risks, blockers, dependencies, and unresolved control gaps through appropriate governance forums.
• Support clear ownership across domain teams, control owners, AI governance, and Risk Management.
• Maintain auditable records of key decisions, actions, issues, and escalations.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Ensure activities are aligned to Group policies, AI standards, regulatory expectations, and applicable conduct requirements.
• Support mapping of AI-amplified risks to relevant regulatory, policy, and control obligations.
• Promote responsible AI adoption by escalating risks of unfair, inappropriate, opaque, or poorly controlled outcomes.
• Support audit, assurance, regulatory, and RFI responses relating to AI-amplified risks.
• Display exemplary conduct and uphold the Group’s Values, Code of Conduct, and risk management standards.

Key Stakeholders
• AI Leadership Team
• T&O Management Team
• Central AI Governance and AI Enablement Teams
• 2nd Line of Defence functions
• Governance & Optimisation teams
• Group Internal Audit
• T&O Risk Management Teams
• T&O Technology Process Owners
• Regulators and their appointed auditors (where applicable)

Other Responsibilities
• Support ad-hoc tactical and strategic risk initiatives to meet business and operational demands through thoughtful partnership.

Key Requirements for the role:
• Experience in AI Risk Management within a large, regulated financial services environment.
• Preferably experience in one or more of the following risk domains within a large, regulated, financial services environment: Technology, Cyber, Compliance, Conduct, Data, and Third Party
• Strong understanding of technology control environments (people, process, and technology) and their application within software engineering and technology delivery domains.
• Experience conducting or supporting deep dive risk reviews of emerging technologies, new platforms, or material technology changes.
• Ability to provide clear, defensible risk opinions and effective challenge to senior stakeholders across Technology & Operations, and Risk Management functions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise, high quality risk documentation suitable for audit, regulatory, and governance review.
• Strong analytical skills, detail-focused with the ability to interpret large volume of information.
• Problem solving skills with ability to influence across all levels of business.
• Ability to independently drive initiatives with minimum hands-on supervision.

• AI Risk

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Risk Management, or a related discipline.

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• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation , one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• In line with our Fair Pay Charter , we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance , with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global employee assistance programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and self-help toolkits.
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual, and digital learning.

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