Third Party Risk Officer

TL;DR

Third Party Risk Officer (Banking/TPRM): Providing independent second-line oversight of Salmon Bank’s third-party risk and related party transaction frameworks with an accent on risk assessments, regulatory compliance, governance, and committee reporting. Focus on challenging first-line controls, identifying concentration and fourth-party risks, strengthening remediation and exit planning, and presenting actionable insights to senior management and the Board.

Location: Hybrid role based in Metro Manila, Philippines

Company

hirify.global operates Salmon Bank, a regulated financial services business with a focus on banking risk management and governance.

What you will do

• Provide independent second-line oversight and challenge across the full third-party risk lifecycle, including onboarding, due diligence, contracting, monitoring, remediation, and offboarding.
• Maintain the enterprise-wide third-party risk inventory, risk register, risk appetite thresholds, KRIs, KPIs, and third-party classification criteria.
• Identify and escalate concentration, subcontracting, fourth-party, critical service dependency, cyber, operational, financial, compliance, and reputational risks.
• Prepare and present TPRM reporting packs, dashboards, and management information to the Risk Oversight Committee, senior management, and Board-level stakeholders.
• Coordinate regulatory examinations, internal audits, external reviews, incident management, remediation tracking, and updates to the TPRM framework.
• Oversee third-party arrangements involving related parties, ensuring arm’s-length treatment, conflict-of-interest controls, appropriate approvals, monitoring, and escalation.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in third-party/vendor risk management, operational risk, or a related discipline within a regulated bank, fintech, or equivalent financial services environment.
• Experience working in a second-line-of-defence function with exposure to risk governance committees.
• Strong knowledge of applicable Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) regulatory frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and present board- or committee-level risk reporting and management information.
• Experience managing third-party due diligence, risk assessments, ongoing monitoring, and offboarding.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Risk Management, Law, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Second-line risk role with direct engagement across Risk, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Procurement, IT, Cyber Security, and business teams.
• Opportunity to influence bank-wide risk governance, regulatory readiness, and risk culture.
• Regular interaction with senior management, governance committees, internal audit, and regulators.
• Hybrid work environment based in Metro Manila.