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DBS · Singapore - Central

# SVP / ED - Workbench Program Lead, Legal & Compliance

Singapore - Central Full-time Manager or lead Legal & Compliance 

Listed on DBS’s official careers site. Posted November 6, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
[Apply on DBS’s careers site →](https://dbs.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/DBS_Careers/job/Singapore---Central/SVP---ED----Workbench-Program-Lead--Legal---Compliance_WD90481)

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## Job description

BUSINESS FUNCTION Group Legal and Compliance ensures that the bank's interests are protected by zealously guarding and enhancing its reputation and capital. We also work to maintain a good standing with all our regulators, customers, and business partners along with upholding the values of trust and integrity for all our stakeholders.

### Key Accountabilities
- Define and deliver program initiatives and achieve business outcomes across multiple Financial Crime domain areas as per established timeline
- Develop business cases and manage program financials within approved budget
- Prioritize program backlogs/requests by balancing regulatory, audit and business priorities, squad capacity, to ensure all committed timelines will be met
- Identify and mitigate risks and resolve issues arising from program execution using agile way of working Effectively collaborate with cross-functional, cross-geography stakeholders, including regulators/auditors, and accurately communicate program progress and challenges

### RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage program and product roadmap, business case, and user requirements across Surveillance workbenches
- Collaborate with business users to define user journeys and associated business processes, including use of agentic GenAI solutions
- Conduct gap analysis between business requirements (including regulatory expectations) vis-a-vis solution landscape and platform strategy
- Document detailed business requirements/epics/user stories by liaising with business users/business analysts including the acceptance criteria
- Define program roadmap and prioritize program backlogs/requests by balancing regulatory, audit and business priorities, and squad capacity to ensure all committed timelines will be met
- Evaluate solutions proposed by technology or analytics team/vendors for specific epics /user stories to ensure best practices are followed
- Build business case and project recommendations as appropriate, to draw down the budget and set up financial tracking
- Conduct market research and analyse trends including RFP/setting up proof of concepts to ensure the product vision/roadmap is aligned with industry developments and our future needs
- Manage key stakeholders, including regulators/auditors, and business and technology leads
- Manage and communicate effectively with domain leads at senior level and working level teams in a timely and clear manner Responsible for ensuring project steering committee meetings, platform governance, cross functional, and other periodic project meetings are effective and achieve objectives in a consistent manner
- Drive program execution and delivery
- Monitor and ensure that program/project execute flawlessly, on schedule, and without compromising quality Proactively identify and mitigate risks within the program
- Resolve issues and conflicts within the program, projects and project management community and with other stakeholders, if necessary
- Ensure resolution of issues at program or line level and escalate issues which cannot be resolved in a timely and accurate manner Have oversight of major production issues or remediation or resolution of data gaps within the scope of program
- Manage coordination across teams and other platforms by keeping transparency in the A / B / C type of work so that delivery can effectively be managed, including critical areas: Ensure project dependencies on other projects /platforms are on their roadmaps and resources will be available when your teams need them
- Ensure work other teams need from your team/s are included and prioritised appropriately in your teams work backlog Highlight capability gaps to respective team/tribe/ function leads

### Oversee User Acceptance
- Tests and Implementation
- Manage user acceptance tests, including execution of test cases as necessary, develop rollout plan and oversee implementation/live-verification activities
- Conduct end user training where necessary
- Ensure smooth rollout of projects, complete pre and post-implementation activities in close coordination with scrum master
- Work closely with Technology/Operations/Business teams to resolve any implementation issues and any post-implementation stabilisation work Change management Adopt agile methodology across squads in the program and implement any DBS Platform Transformation milestones
- Ensure utilization of standards and practices across all projects
- Work with business and support unit users to drive changes to facilitate successful implementation and faster realization of benefits

### REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum
- 12 years of experience managing projects/products in the financial industry, regulatory compliance and/or financial crime prevention domain
- Minimum educational qualification of degree holder in any related field At least
- 3 years of experience in Agile project management/software development including partnering with Technology and Business users to deliver the outcomes Experience in engaging with regulators, auditors, senior stakeholders and solution providers/vendors, showcasing solid relationship-building, conflict resolution and negotiation skills
- Solid knowledge of Workbench and workflow Program delivery, and any working experience in surveillance workbenches is a plus Experience and/or knowledge in agentic/ GenAI solution implementation and prompt engineering will be an asset
- Excellent communication, presentation, and organization skills; can be relied upon to make concise decisions
- Ability to multi-task with excellent analytical, problem-solving, and planning skills
- Ability to own and be hands on in the management of tasks
- Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, and collaborating with different teams/team members
- Ability to deal with people at all levels and work well in a fast-paced/high-energy environment by managing individual workloads Self-motivated with positive and can-do attitude; comfortable in situations where things are ambiguous/fluid or priorities can be changing
- Proven track record of leading projects to meet stipulated timelines with expected outcomes and quality.

Work in transformation programs will be an asset Strong background in business analysis and/or root cause analysis, ideally in the Financial Services industry/Retail Banking Excellent skills in Microsoft Office and Project Management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence) Project Management and/or Business Analyst certification is preferred Location: DBS Asia Central Job: Digital Schedule: Regular Employee Status: Full time

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Nov 6, 2026
- First seen by OpenNash: Nov 8, 2026
- Last checked: Nov 8, 2026
- Listed for: 2 days
- Location: Singapore - Central
- Employment type: Full-time[Apply on DBS’s careers site →](https://dbs.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/DBS_Careers/job/Singapore---Central/SVP---ED----Workbench-Program-Lead--Legal---Compliance_WD90481)

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